Services & Facilities

As an artist blacksmith William Smith has had a fascination with metal from a young age, when cold its hard and unbending, but when heated and crafted it has a fluid malleable quality, and in the right hands it allows its self to form into many beautiful objects.

William (or Bill to most) has always had a love of natural forms and shapes and often takes his inspiration from nature, creating plant forms of all kinds and the use of traditional blacksmithing techniques to create contemporary form.

Lucille Scott is an artist blacksmith who uses modern and traditional techniques to make hand forged metal items inspired by nature and her love of dance and music. For Lucille the appeal of working with steel lies in the traditional role of blacksmiths, the permanence of their work and passing on this tradition to all around her.
With 25 years experience of teaching practical subjects Lucille opens her forge on a regular basis to students and those who just want a days experience as well as running short courses in local schools.
Lucille’s work is mainly aimed at at the domestic market, she exhibits in local galleries as well as working to commission.
Photographs kindly supplied by Retina Photography.

West Country Blacksmiths are an award winning bespoke metalwork specialists offering a complete premium metalwork service from their forge on the edge of Exmoor in Somerset.

A really uniquely talented group of award winning craftsmen based on Exmoor in Somerset, producing exceptionally high quality metalwork both locally and nationally.

The team boasts uniquely talented craftsmen, whose skills are second to none. Harnessing the vision, skills and experience of class leading blacksmiths alongside talented engineers, metalworkers, coded welding experts and designers allows West Country Blacksmiths to offer a complete premium service, including a bespoke CAD design service.

Using a mixture of traditional crafts skills and creativity with modern design and manufacturing techniques to produce metalwork with limitless potential. These skills allow the team to work on both new and restoration projects working with all forms of metal, including wrought iron, cast iron, mild steel, stainless steel, bronze, brass, aluminium and cor-ten.

We work with private individuals, other metalwork companies, contractors, designers, architects, local authorities and other organisations both locally and nationally. We are pleased to welcome new enquiries and offer our artistic and engineering skills and experience to prospective projects.

We pride ourselves on offering the very best personal service from start to finish, utilising over 100 years of experience within our team.

Dan Nauman, designer, owner and artisan at Bighorn Forge, has been forging since 1979, professionally since 1993. His work spans many styles of ornamental and architectural metalwork, and is primarily hand-forged. Gates, railings, lighting, furniture, fire-tools, sculpture and more are commonly made in Nauman’s studio. One of his specialties is the process of French repousse’, applying flowing acanthus leaves, and intricate rosettes to his metalwork. Nauman’s Northern School for Blacksmiths, a division of Bighorn Forge, is where Nauman teaches up to eleven different workshops, from beginning forging to French repousse’. Nauman also teaches, demo’s and lectures around the USA at colleges, craft schools, and museums. Nauman has been fortunate to have restored and reproduced work by the famed Austrian born master blacksmith, Cyril Colnik (1871-1958), and also produced a video on Colnik entitled, Forged Elegance, that aired on Wisconsin Public Television, and also Milwaukee Public Television in 1998. Nauman served as a board member for the Artist-Blacksmith’s Association of North America (ABANA) from 2000-2006, and chaired the Controlled Hand Forging committee, which wrote 28 lessons about basic forging. Currently, Nauman is the editor/designer of ABANA’s The Hammer’s Blow, and as of 2017, will also be the editor/designer of The Anvil’s Ring.

A metal sculptor using traditional blacksmithing techniques. Employing traditional and the modern.
Innovative designs.
Using a variety of metals in his work, copper, iron, steel, stainless steel, brass etc.
Repousse work (sheet metal shaping, forming, chasing).
Fabrication work, Some restoration work.
Garden Sculptures.
Modelling for foundry work. Some small scale casting.
Public demonstrations, small class teaching. Qualified for Adult teaching.
Enhanced DBS Checked

Work of Iron is based in Edinburgh, providing a progressive approach to blacksmithing and fine art practice. Passionate about communicating visual ideas through highly skilled craftsmanship. The managing director Jack Waygood creates accessible artwork for a variety of audiences and clientele. Focused on producing exhibition pieces and commissions involving all manner of forged ironwork requirements. Projects for architectural purposes, gardens and domestic settings, from repair and restoration jobs to fine art sculpture. There are endless applications when it comes to creativity and the hot forging process combined.

I am a Bladesmith and Swordmaker working from South East England/London Border.

Anvil Forge is a small family business offering design , manufacturing and installation of bespoke handcrafted metalwork.

Principally a garden designer, but have designed numerous features for open spaces with forged steel. Working mostly with Terrence Clark and Rebecca Knott, they have turned design concepts into amazing pieces of artwork that I am very proud of.

Chalk Pit Forge is run by Alex Smith, who has been a blacksmith since 1998.
I make and design bespoke metalwork for anywhere in the UK. The service includes Gates, railings, fountains and sculpture as well as anything else.
Please get in touch if you would like a quote for anything you have in mind.
I also run one to one lessons at Amberley, West Sussex, that can be from one day to twenty days in length. Each day is 9am – 5pm, please visit my website for more details.
Many Thanks
Alex Smith

Fantastic Factory Studio is sited in Ripoll, SPAIN. We also offer our products online and accept custom requests.
Our local classes (8 pax) are offered weekly in our workshop, we are just 1 hour away from Barcelona so we encourage you to join anytime to enjoy a plentiful experience if you plan a visit to Barcelona. It’s a one-day thing, no experience requested. You will forge a beautiful piece of art, medieval weaponry or Bushcraft.
Our tourist packs are offered in groups of 4-8 people, we teach you some basics on blacksmithing and you will be guided to forge a Knife or an Axe in 10 hours. You can take a look at our website and contact directly to me by email or phone or Whatsapp +34678730334 Henry