This week at IAStudios

Hello everyone,

We are currently riding the high of the last weekend, we had a lovely forge-in with our friends and fellow blacksmiths with a barbecue, music and festivities long into the night which I suspect a few are still recovering from.

As you can probably imagine, it’s a bit warm in the forge this week, as such we are working on as much paperwork as feasibly possible and just getting the forges on for the most urgent pieces of work. Dan has been sweating away making some tongs that need to be out the door ASAP, and is also teaching 1-2-1 courses from Friday to Sunday as the temperature is a bit less oppressive. Elliot has been finishing his rather fancy light bracket and Joe is working on the website (and writing blog posts) and will be at the Tolkien festival in Sarehole this weekend demonstrating blacksmithing with a stall there. If you’re interested in anything and everything Lord of the rings you can find out about the festival here.

Fingers crossed for a cooler week next week!

Cheers,

~IAStudios

Elliot working on the scroll for the light bracket

Dan teaching a student on a 1-2-1 course how to make a pair of tongs.