Meet metalworkers making useful objects, small iron pieces and opportunities to learn at the forge.
7 discoveries to explore.
From raw steel to a blade. From leather to the sheath that carries it.
Brent shares the work behind Forgey Mc Forge Face: forged knives, leather and Kydex sheaths, and mechanical projects from his northern B.C. workshop life.
A restored lathe. A small workshop. A pan you can cook with.
Logan started Excentric in a Crossfield garage. His maker story follows a restored metal-spinning lathe from small copper pieces to carbon-steel cookware.
Try working hot steel. Find a way to keep practising.
A family-run working forge in the Alberta Foothills. Forge & Farm offers blacksmithing classes and a continuing guild for people who have completed the prerequisites.
A family forge. Iron made into something personal.
Artisan blacksmith Shaun Semple’s official story places the work in a small family forge near Edmonton. The shop connects hand forging with homeware, accessories and other small objects.
A small cast object can earn its place in an everyday book.
Amos Pewter makes decorative and useful pewter pieces through a Mahone Bay studio process. Its clip bookmarks give a reader a straightforward entry point into the craft, with exact-product dimensions and direct ordering links.
A family manufacturing shop behind removable-bottom cake pans and pizza pans.
Crown makes cookware and bakeware and also undertakes metal forming and custom work. Its factory outlet gives home bakers a direct route to the manufacturer.
Pewter pieces with a Fredericton workshop behind them.
Aitkens Pewter makes cast and spun pewter pieces in Fredericton. Its range includes tableware and jewellery, with product-specific details and care requirements that matter more than a broad souvenir label.