Month: January 2025

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Saturday & Sunday, February 15 & 16, 9am-3pm. Please sign up quickly as the instructor needs advance notice of whose taking the class and classes are limited to six. Valentine’s Blacksmithing: Make a Knife Workshop. Take this class with your significant other for a reduced cost. Normal single student cost is $295. A pair that each makes a knife is $545.00 for a $45 savings! A parent/guardian can take class too but the child age 13-16 needs an accompanying adult to assist (adult will watch not make unless they want to pay additionally for their place in class). This is a start to finish. Start with a high carbon steel billet. Heat and shape a blade and a handle tang. Use hand file, belt sander, wet stone and sand paper to refine blade. Heat treat and oven temper. Drill brass rivet holes in tang. Fit hardwood handle scales and fix with rivets and fast drying epoxy. Using sand paper and belt sander perfect your knife handle. Using oil or oil base material finish your handle. You’ve completed your first knife. Cost: $295 for the two day class instruction and materials. You will call: 207-205-4849 to register and make payment by credit card. You should bring a bag lunch, non synthetic gloves, non synthetic clothing and footwear, safety eyewear with side shields, maybe ear plugs (it gets loud), and energy for the two day experience.

Sorry to share that our scheduled Ice Harvest on Saturday, January 11 is CANCELLED due to thin ice and lack of snow. We will continue to monitor the weather for a possible re-scheduling of the event. Although we are having a cold snap there was still open water on Fields Pond, our harvesting site, as recent as this past weekend. There will be a two day blacksmithing workshop this weekend (Jan. 11 & 12) at the museum as well as a Beginning Blacksmithing Workshop for Kids on Saturday, January 18 as scheduled. Happy New Year!