Blacksmithing

Great! Welcome to a wonderful hobby. The purpose of this post is to outline how to get started and stay safe while doing so. I have a tendency to ramble, so I’ve included a concise “quickstart” guide. I’ve written this under the assumption that the reader is a beginner and does not have the space/time/money to set up their own blacksmithing shop. For that reason, I’ve excluded much information on equipment and materials, assuming these will be available from a teacher. I’ve also covered basically nothing about the actual process of blacksmithing. This will come from in-person mentorship and the John Switzer / Black Bear Forge link below contains many excellent instructional videos about how to actually make things. ...

Today is going to be super. I have a friend who’s a huge superman nerd and has a name starting with “S”, and who recently had a birthday and got published. I thought I’d forge a Superman S as a celebratory gift, but by the end of it, I was feeling like our good buddy Clark up there. The Failed Attempt Prototype I’m going to jump to the results pretty quickly and discuss the process afterwards. There have been about a million variations of the Superman S over the years, but I decided to follow the Superman (2025) movie: ...