Making Your Flux Spoon
Published on 03.03.16
Our first year Blacksmiths are at the forge fifteen hours a week and they have two and a half hours of welding as well. In the first year there is a real focus on learning the processes needed to work with hot metal; its skills driven, with lots of practice pieces to make accurately. Today
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Our first year Blacksmiths are at the forge fifteen hours a week and they have two and a half hours of welding as well. In the first year there is a real focus on learning the processes needed to work with hot metal; its skills driven, with lots of practice pieces to make accurately.
Today the forge session has begun with a demonstration by Adrian of how to make a flux spoon. In these photos you can see all the first years gathered around with their notebooks at the ready, jotting down all of the details, so that when the demonstration is over they too can forge their own flux spoon which, when completed, will be part of their ever growing tool box and be ready and waiting for when they need to fire weld.
It’s a useful and important tool, and one with a bit of added embellishment, as you can see from the fire-welded end with a glass marble added.
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