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

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