Swiveling Jaw Tongs Class Instructor: Tom Latane' Brief Description: Students will forge the jaws, reins, and pivot of a pair of tongs with one hinged jaw that will adjust to hold material over a range of 3/8”, and adjust to the taper angle of items such as an axe blade being held while the eye…

Chalk Tongs Class Instructor: Dave Gavin Class size: maximum 8, minimum 4 Class Manager: Jesse Gavin, jagavin6273@hotmail.com Are you tired of fumbling with that short piece of chalk? Then this is the class for you. We will be making chalk tongs. This class will require you to have some serious hammer control. One wrong hit,…

Instructor: Peter Ellison Viking Knife Class Description: This class's goal is to introduce a smith to working with wrought iron and in the process make a couple of small projects: a hook and a small forge welded whittle tang knife that would have been common throughout the Viking era and beyond.  In the morning we…

Instructors: Bob Brown, Dave & Jesse Gavin, Herb Fick, Wayne Olson, George Auel Class size: Maximum students: 4                 Minimum students: 8 Class description: This is Herb, organizing yet another Handled Struck Tools Class for the day before the holiday party. We are electing Bob Brown to be our lead instructor this year. The Gavins, Dave and…

Instructor: Dave Gavin Class size: Maximum students: 8                   Minimum students: 4 Class Description: This years tongs are what I’m calling pipe tongs. They will hold pipe of nearly any size by one edge vs having one for each size of pipe that you might work with. They will also hold just about any size…