jo the iron
Herts
I have been working as a blacksmith for over 30 years and have lots of
experience and anecdotes to share with participants over the course! I enjoy my
career in metalworking, and making and creating products is a totally satisfying
way to earn a living. I want to re-create this experience for everyone attending
my courses – a real taste of a day in the life of a blacksmith! I was always
driven by the desire to ‘make things’ – and on leaving school I started working
at a local forge and learning the trade. I choose metal as a medium originally
purely as it was more forgiving than wood, although I do enjoy working with wood
too nowadays and have started a bit of side-line in sheds and summerhouses.
