Fire in the Swamp Galleries

Freshly cast bronze horse-head cane handle
Raku pottery by Kelly Landrum
John Perilloux feeds the cupola
Deborah at the forge
Throwing pottery
Hand Forged Iron Work by Tom Walker
Pouring bronze into sand molds
Wood fire to pre-heat the cupola and light the coke
Copper leaf making with Patrick Branan
Teaching of Blacksmithing by Chuck Averett
Chris Marks forges a knife
Bad ass knife
At the Anvil, Fire in the Swamp 2009
breaking of iron for the iron melt
Mykaela forging
Bronze pour
Chuck and his son
John Perilloux charging the cupola
Raku kiln and pottery being pre-heated
Iron flows freely from the cupola
Deborah Davis forging a hummingbird
oxygen lance clears a blockage with John Periloux
Hunter Averett at the forge
Kelly Landrum preparing her kiln for Raku
Youngsmith Chucks son
Kelly Landrum making Raku
scraping the doss off the bronze
Forging a Knife Blade
Pouring an Iron Cross in a mold carved in the ground.
Fire in Swamp 2009 Gets Underway
John Perilloux
Sue Lincoln making a pewter mold for casting
Hand Forged knives by Edd Scafidel
Working at the anvil during Fire in the Swamp 2009
molten iron flowing from the cupola
Bronze crucible being transferred to pouring shank
Forging
Iron starts to flow
hand made tool box and black smith tools given away 2011
ladle for iron pour pre-heat
Hot cutting iron by Wayne Cash
The first iron pour from the new cupola
Kelly and her class
Master Smith Chris Marks at Gas Forge