This Week at IAStudios

Hello everyone,

So, what’s been going on in the forge this week?

Dan has, as ever, been working on more tongs this week. Though this week, for a bit of variety there are some obscenely large tongs being made. I’m talking tongs with 5ft long reins… why anyone would want such long tongs is honestly beyond me, but my job is to write blogs and not ask questions.

Elliot has been working on a new batch of windows. I asked him to describe to me what he was doing to them and in what I can only describe as “Blacksmith Neanderthal Tongue” he said “Handle loose” smacked the handle with a hammer a few times then said proudly “Handle now not loose”. I may be omitting the large amount of swearing in between however.

Joe has been working on a potential overhaul of the way that courses will be booked through the website. It isn’t quite finished yet, but watch this space as hopefully a more advanced and much more user-friendly method for booking courses could be in the wings. This system should offer more opportunities for people to book different courses in a slightly more flexible manner compared to our very rigid current calendar.

We also had a handful of people in the forge on Saturday for our 4 hour blacksmithing taster session, where they made a couple of scroll knives. If you would be interested in giving blacksmithing a go, there’s honestly no better way to try it than coming on one of our courses.

It seems to be getting hotter again, and the rumour is that we are due another heatwave soon, we are crossing our fingers and praying to Hephaestus, Vulcan and every other forge god that it doesn’t get as hot as it did last week again.

Cheers to another week,

~IASTUDIOS

Dan’s tongs, including the mega tongs in progress.

The windows which Elliot is giving a little bit of TLC to.