Meet The Team

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John - Principal blacksmith

John is the founder and owner of the business and has over 40 years experience in the metalworking industry. After working for several metalworking companies John realised that his passion was in the combination of producing artistic metalwork that actually had a function as well!

 
 
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Spencer - blacksmith

Spencer joined John a number of years ago and has wealth of knowledge in not only blacksmithing and bladesmithing but site installations and problem solving for a variety of situations that arise when installing metalwork.

 
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Aidan - blacksmith

Aidan is a talented blacksmith. He joined us a few years ago for work experience before studying blacksmithing at Hereford and then returning to share his knowledge.

 

Bill - guest tutor

Bill comes with a mountain of experience originally a farrier but also trained in the dark arts of blacksmithing at Hereford and works 2 or 3 days a week as a guest tutor

 
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Alex - Guest tutor

Alex is a very competent young blacksmith that has an excellent grasp on all the technical aspects of metalwork and is keen to share his knowledge. He is also a keen photographer and has taken most of the photos you see on our website, including the ones of himself , what a clever lad!

 

Patrick

Pat has recently joined us as an apprentice and we are pleased to say that he is showing a great deal of promise. Pat is very hands on and enjoys helping out.

 
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paul - guest tutor

Paul comes from a military background and is actually only semi-retired from the Army.

Paul helps us on a Ad hoc basis and a knowledgeable blacksmith with many years of experience.