High School Blacksmithing on TV

Phil Dwyer

Phil Dwyer

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Hi Friends,

Are you up for a little propaganda? Our school was recently featured in some local news, including our high school blacksmithing. For your viewing pleasure attached are the morning and evening clips. I was real proud of the students. Not only did we have to move our smithy from our high school campus to the lower school campus, they also had to show up at 6AM for the demo. Did they do GREAT or what?!

All the best, Phil

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http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/catego...=info&LaunchPageAdTag=homepage&clipFormat=flvPS -- Don't mind the guy with the hair. In December I vowed not to shave until I lost fifty pounds :(. Only 21 more to go. :D
 
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That beard is a fire hazard that's for sure. ;)

I agree with everyone, cool school and even cooler teacher.:thumbup:
 
That is really awesome to see! The kids are really into it, great job!

In my high school shop class we got taught ourselves to weld. I got in trouble for cutting up a bunch of old scrap chairs and making a huge sculpture, lol. I was covering parts of it in slag for looks by cooking multiple rods onto the metal when I got caught, lol. I still can't believe they let us do that without supervision, lol...
 
Great work Phil. I love that "Blacksmithing is a required Class"
 
Yes indeed they would benefit from working with lighter hammers. I haven't come across any yet that I can afford to buy a batch of ten of. Anyone got any ideas where to get some bargain basement priced ones?
 
Great video's Phil! Now I must say that is one kool school you work at. The kids in your class all seemed to be really into what they were doing! :cool:

The closest thing I had to that was Ag class when I went to school. But there was a lot of that class that really didn't interest me because I knew I wan't into farming as a lifestyle.:eek:

Keep up the good work Phil. I will bet you feel like you have never worked a day in your life!:thumbup::D
 
Phil Dwyer said:
Yes indeed they would benefit from working with lighter hammers. I haven't come across any yet that I can afford to buy a batch of ten of. Anyone got any ideas where to get some bargain basement priced ones?
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my local surplus/chineese junk shop has 1kg-2.2 pound cross pien hammers for $8 ish
You would have to melt those handles off and rehandle.
Shipping to HI would increase that by quite a bit - but maybe you have something like that closer?

or you can find some good scrap and get the class to make some?
maybe you have keener students willing to make some as extra credit projects?

harbour freight ? $5 for 24oz balls piens
 
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