Rural Crafts
Welcome to the Rural Cafts Centre!
Below you will find information about the various Rural Crafts demonstrated at Stepping Stones by our Volunteers: Sean Marshall, Mark Nunn and Ian Lowe.
Below is a series of videos made by one of our Blacksmiths (Ian Lowe) during a year spent in Australia as an apprentice. It covers the making of a simple leaf. Another video shows the making of a pyramid point.
Ian: “These were made in the forge of a great bloke and excellent Smith called Dale Russell who lives nestled in the Yarra Valley near Melbourne who I worked with for several months. They are meant to show each successive step in the process. In reality these are done in two heats or so”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxm0Vy843_Q“>Step 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzhoSKaNRwM&feature=related“>Step 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekYhwo0ZJEQ&feature=related“>Step 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzSHCKNTSwo&feature=related“>Step 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo6vW_c9Byk&feature=related“>Step 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1pMd0gcFPo&feature=related“>Step 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=420JsCnFjSA&feature=related“>Step 7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axjoLmpGn_Y&feature=related“>Step 8
Forging 1 inch square bar, the end upset into itself then pointed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV4IpJk3rOM&feature=related“>Pyramid or Square Point