David (the author) teaching at his own workshop back in 2020 If you tell a parent (or worse, a grandparent) that you're taking a six-year-old to a blacksmith's shop to beat glowing-hot iron with a hammer, you'll probably get one of two reactions: either they look at you like you just suggested juggling chainsaws and dancing with venomous snakes, or they give you that slow blink like a Michigan deer in headlights... But they might be surprised to find that such an idea is NOT

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One of the most asked questions I get whether I am helping folks get hammered in Little Bavaria or tending to our dragons in NC & AZ is...

"Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end, then stop." - Lewis Carroll While the Bavarian Blacksmith Experience opened...