Fire Iron Forge

11/01/2026

Teaching this young man how to hot rasp!

Hot rasping is like the old school grinder and is a great technique to know. You get some really great control and it requires no power tools. Grab an old farriers rasp and a glove for your non dominant hand. Pop your hot steel in a vice and go to work. 💪🏻

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10/26/2026

What a great article by these guys. I think it was all AI, but still really nice.

Walk into this Idaho forge with a railroad spike and zero experience, and you drive home with a steak knife you hammered out yourself.

10/25/2026

Jonathan forging down some massive 3” round hammer stock to 2.5” square. The blacksmithing hammers made from this 4140 stock will be unlike any hammers you’ve ever seen before. We will be unveiling them at the conference next month. We’ve improved the design and functionality of general purpose forging hammers. Can’t wait to get them out into the wild. First prototype was designed by David Walker Artist Blacksmith and forged by Brent Bailey Forge back in 2019.

We have several new designs on our blacksmiths tools that are very unique and will be debuted at the conference. Whatever we don’t sell there will be made available on our website fireironforge.com

10/24/2026

Just finished this puppy up for some very beautiful and functional tools we will be selling at the Artist-Blacksmith Association conference next month!

We have several new designs on our blacksmiths tools that are very unique and will be debuted at the conference. Whatever we don’t sell there will be made available on our website fireironforge.com

07/15/2026

Forging a wizard head part 2: With the taper forged in its time to go to the vice! Using a backing block make sure the steel is well supported. Grab a soft/striking hammer and a square faced hand tool to forge in the eye sockets and cheeks. Once those are in use the edge of the square to form the bottom of the nose. Watch your symmetry and use single hammer strikes to ensure good placement. Hammer it like a nail and the tool will move out of position.

Last- use a center punch to put in the nostrils and center dot in the hat. Now we’re ready for the next heat!

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05/31/2026

Forging a wizard head part 1: Starting with 3/8”(8-10mm) round bar forge a square taper out to roughly 3”(75mm). This can be done on the face or on the horn/bick, but the fastest and most efficient is how you see John forging it down here over a rounded edge of the anvil. This method is designed for quickly roughing in the over all shape of the taper, then is cleaned up on the face of the anvil. Once the square taper is roughed in, forge the corners down creating a rough octagon taper.

This will serve as the hat of the wizard. The beginning of the taper will be where the eye sockets and top of the nose will be forged in part 2.

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05/17/2026

Titus closing up the eye of his final level 1 project! This gate latch combines everything in the curriculum he has learned over the last couple of years with us. There are 4 components to the latch. Here he is closing up the eye of the main part of the latch. Couldn’t be more proud of this kiddo!

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05/13/2026

A couple of friends and students learning and practicing team striking at our monthly hammer in. Here they are upsetting a 3.75lb(1.7kg) bar that will be a hammer when finished. It’s a fun and useful skill to learn and practice. To do it well you must learn how to strike well(hard and accurate while creating and maintaining a rhythm with the other strikers. Next time you have the opportunity we highly recommend it.

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05/08/2026

Giving some of our students an introduction to the power hammer. In this demo I’m showing them the simplest method of isolating a section of flat bar to a specific dimension. Just using a simple end cut of 5/8” round you can get a nice separation like this. For this piece in particular it was thinned to make the bend easier in that direction. Once forged out they served as legs for a custom fireplace grill.

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05/06/2026

Jonathan upsetting some 1.75” round bar to 2.5”. This is a custom pommel for a swordsmith. Once to size the end will be mushroomed over and thinned out to the customers specs and drilled. It’ll be a beast of a sword!

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