Course Overview
Advance your blacksmithing skills by employing basic and intermediate connection techniques to produce a piece of wrought iron grillwork. Explore techniques such as stock calculation, upsetting right-angle corners, riveting, mortise and tenon joinery, collaring, forge welding, botanical forms, and heating tools. Through lecture, demonstration, and hands-on practice, form elements of a wrought iron grill using riveting, collaring, upsetting, forging, and attaching floral forms and traditional scrollwork to the grill elements. Tools will include rivet headers and hot-cutting tools that help attach and produce the floral elements. Achieve robust tool design while developing your tools.
With the skills gained in this course, you will be able to create rivet sets, set hammers, fullers for tenons, and slot punches.
Required Equipment: CSA-approved steel-toed footwear, CSA-approved clear safety glasses, earplugs or earmuffs, welding gloves (loose-fitting, gauntlet style), a low-cost leather apron, and natural fiber clothing that covers arms and legs.
It is required that you complete IRON101- Blacksmithing before enrolling in this course.