Award winning Rich Jones from Heat & Beat will guide you through the ancient skills of blacksmithing, learning the elementary techniques needed to form and forge steel.

 

Over two days, you will make simple but beautifully crafted items for everyday use and a memory that will stay with you forever. Using hammers, traditional hand tools and a forge, you will learn about upsetting your metal and drawing it down, chiselling, doming and using the horn of your anvil to forge various shapes into your hot steel.

 

See course dates for details of design options on different dates. These simple but challenging designs will give you plenty to learn over the two days and an opportunity to try a wide variety of techniques.

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23-24 April 2022

Dragon toasting fork or fire poker

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26-28 October 2022

Silver & steel

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3-4 December 2022

Wall hook & fire poker

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If you or a friend like the idea of working in silver, we also have a

3 day course in silver & steel where you can try one or both metals

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If you would like to make certain items but the dates don't suit,

let us know as there is possibility for us to change these around. 

Other options include a hanger for flower basket or bird feeder

 

£245 - Tuition fees

(plus £30 course materials)

 

Tea, coffee and simple lunch included in your course price 
 

We also offer accommodation & evening meals

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Click here to see what we offer

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This course is aimed at adults, aged 18yrs + and is suitable for beginners to those with experience

Rich Jones is an artist blacksmith from Heat & Beat in Dyserth, North Wales. His blacksmithing began in Llandudno & then Herefordshire College of Blacksmithing. On completing his studies, he did his Journeyman in Gdansk, Poland & later in France. He returned to an apprenticeship in Wales before setting up his own company in 2000.

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Since establishing Heat & Beat, Rich has produced a huge range of work from public art commissions to bespoke gates, railing and restoration. The distinctive style of his work draws its inspiration from nature’s forms and shapes, which he combines with his love of geometric forms and structure.

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His work can be seen at various well-known landmarks along the Clwydian Range in north Wales. These include an all-seeing crow perched on simple gate leading up to the iron-age fort of Castell Dinas Brân; and the benches and gates on Moel Famau, just a hill or two from Wernog Wood… and of course many more…