Blacksmithing Traditional Skills Tools
In this course participants will choose to make the tools needed for either willow basketry or hide tanning. For Willow Basket Weaving you can make a weaving bodkin, a wrapping iron, and a bark stripper, and for hide tanning where you can make a leather awl, a wet scraper/fleshing tool, and a dry scraper. All students should have previous experience here or elsewhere with blacksmithing or check in with us directly as this class will require a fair level experience with using hand tools. Bonus projects will be available for those who finish projects early.