{"id":48858,"date":"2019-06-11T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=48858"},"modified":"2025-08-29T19:59:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T23:59:15","slug":"my-apprenticeship-as-a-blacksmith-forging-a-nail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/06\/11\/my-apprenticeship-as-a-blacksmith-forging-a-nail\/","title":{"rendered":"My apprenticeship as a blacksmith &#8211; forging a nail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A9oyEKnf4Uc\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Lindybeige<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 16 Jan 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Before forging my sword, I had to do an apprenticeship as a blacksmith, and make a nail. Here witness my training.<\/p>\n<p>Support me on Patreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Lindybeige\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Lindybeige<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was a guest of The Cut and Thrust Collective &#8211; four blacksmiths who have banded together in a forge that was once known as The Forge of Avalon, in Glastonbury. There I spent most of a week, and there I forged my sword &#8211; <em>Arnander<\/em> &#8211; the making of which will be the subject of further videos.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m quite pleased with the amount of information I got into this video about how forging is done. It shows you several details of how to use a forge to heat metal, and how to hammer shapes into metal.<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to Joseph McDonald for inviting me in the first place, acting as cameraman, and cooking lots of bacon. Thanks too to my teacher here Thom Leworthy.<\/p>\n<p>The company takes commissions for blacksmithing, and runs courses so that you can go in and make your own pieces. glastonburysmith@gmail.com<\/p>\n<p>Lindybeige: a channel of archaeology, ancient and medieval warfare, rants, swing dance, travelogues, evolution, and whatever else occurs to me to make.<\/p>\n<p>\u25bc Follow me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lindybeige\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lindybeige<\/a> I may have some drivel to contribute to the Twittersphere, plus you get notice of uploads.<\/p>\n<p>website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.LloydianAspects.co.uk\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.LloydianAspects.co.uk<\/a> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot_2019-06-11-My-apprenticeship-as-a-blacksmith-\u2013-forging-a-nail.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot_2019-06-11-My-apprenticeship-as-a-blacksmith-\u2013-forging-a-nail-480x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-48860\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot_2019-06-11-My-apprenticeship-as-a-blacksmith-\u2013-forging-a-nail-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot_2019-06-11-My-apprenticeship-as-a-blacksmith-\u2013-forging-a-nail-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot_2019-06-11-My-apprenticeship-as-a-blacksmith-\u2013-forging-a-nail-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot_2019-06-11-My-apprenticeship-as-a-blacksmith-\u2013-forging-a-nail-853x480.png 853w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot_2019-06-11-My-apprenticeship-as-a-blacksmith-\u2013-forging-a-nail.png 930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lindybeige Published on 16 Jan 2018 Before forging my sword, I had to do an apprenticeship as a blacksmith, and make a nail. Here witness my training. Support me on Patreon: https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Lindybeige I was a guest of The Cut and Thrust Collective &#8211; four blacksmiths who have banded together in a forge that was once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,73,15,487],"tags":[570,1140,1398,1159,1459],"class_list":["post-48858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-randomness","category-technology","category-tools","tag-england","tag-handtools","tag-lindybeige","tag-materials","tag-metalworking"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-cI2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48858"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57302,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48858\/revisions\/57302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}