This Week at IAStudios

Hello everyone,

This week is quiet in the forge as the team collectively recharges from a busy week at Download festival. At the festival Dan and Elliot were both doing blacksmithing demonstrations for the public, peddling their wares and helping with small have-a-go blacksmithing classes. They were quite successful selling the IAStudios stock, so we will definitely need to make more items for the coming summer markets. After the hectic week at Download both Dan and Elliot have spent most of this week out of the forge with the exception of finishing a small order of tongs. Joe has been away since Monday and is only in the forge on Friday because he quite literally has an axe to grind

(and a blog to write).

This weekend we have some knifemaking courses, hopefully the coming heatwave manages to hold off until they are complete or we are going to be back to being a very sweaty forge indeed!

Our online shop is live and is going to be being added to consistently as we make new and interesting things, please do check it out, there is some awesome stuff that can be picked up there.

Cheers to a chilled out week and a successful festival,

see you next week!

~IAStudios

Dan doing a big sparky forge weld temperature strike during a demonstration at Download festival

Dan cooking sausages with the Barbecue fork that he made as part of one of the blacksmithing demonstrations.

Joe with an axe (splitting maul) to grind

Hand forged cats being sold by Elliot at Download festival - he actually sold all of them and now we really need to make more cats.

This is either an action shot of Elliot doing a quick hammer flip, or an action shot of Elliot chucking his hammer across the shop… you decide!

Dan… being Dan with the bbq fork from the demo.