The last few weeks has seen me at two different events featuring the skills and techniques of two world class blacksmiths.
John Monteath and wife, Brenda Field of Manuka Forge were recently at the Western Development Museum in Saskatoon conducting an advanced blacksmith course. Over the weekend gathering of devoted smiths they created “The Blue Muse,” a beautiful sculpture of a Heron taking flight.
Chris Gregory is a reknowned farrier, but watching him make a horseshoe from scratch is also seeing a master blacksmith. Man could he make that anvil sing. The AFA Clinician of the year, Gregory is also one of 35 in the Worshipful Company of Farriers, founded 1605 in London.
