Fire Iron Forge

Fire Iron Forge Welcome to Fire Iron Forge. We pride ourselves on old world craftsmanship, and high-quality ironwork

05/31/2026

Forging a wizard head part 1: Starting with 3/8”(8-10mm) round bar forge a square taper out to roughly 3”(75mm). This can be done on the face or on the horn/bick, but the fastest and most efficient is how you see John forging it down here over a rounded edge of the anvil. This method is designed for quickly roughing in the over all shape of the taper, then is cleaned up on the face of the anvil. Once the square taper is roughed in, forge the corners down creating a rough octagon taper.

This will serve as the hat of the wizard. The beginning of the taper will be where the eye sockets and top of the nose will be forged in part 2.

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05/17/2026

Titus closing up the eye of his final level 1 project! This gate latch combines everything in the curriculum he has learned over the last couple of years with us. There are 4 components to the latch. Here he is closing up the eye of the main part of the latch. Couldn’t be more proud of this kiddo!

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05/13/2026

A couple of friends and students learning and practicing team striking at our monthly hammer in. Here they are upsetting a 3.75lb(1.7kg) bar that will be a hammer when finished. It’s a fun and useful skill to learn and practice. To do it well you must learn how to strike well(hard and accurate while creating and maintaining a rhythm with the other strikers. Next time you have the opportunity we highly recommend it.

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05/08/2026

Giving some of our students an introduction to the power hammer. In this demo I’m showing them the simplest method of isolating a section of flat bar to a specific dimension. Just using a simple end cut of 5/8” round you can get a nice separation like this. For this piece in particular it was thinned to make the bend easier in that direction. Once forged out they served as legs for a custom fireplace grill.

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05/06/2026

Jonathan upsetting some 1.75” round bar to 2.5”. This is a custom pommel for a swordsmith. Once to size the end will be mushroomed over and thinned out to the customers specs and drilled. It’ll be a beast of a sword!

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05/04/2026

Titus hot stamping a “T” into his backing plate for his Artist Blacksmith's Association of North America - ABANA L1 gate latch. This is the final piece of the level 1 curriculum and Titus has worked hard to get here. Finishing this up at 9yrs old I am so excited to see what the future holds for this young man. Stay tuned to find out.

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04/27/2026

How to forge a wizard head launching this week! Follow along for detailed steps on how to forge this classic blacksmithing character.

Here Rob of is forging in the eyes of his wizard. Right near the finish of the head. These guys are so much fun to make, and you can give them so much personality!

Feeling inspired? Come take a class and see what we can make together- https://fireironforge.com/classes

04/24/2026

Two friends forging knives for the first time! Here he is drawing out the heel of the knife using a ball peen hammer and a soft or striking hammer. This is important because you never want to strike a hammer against another tool that is also high carbon. Even a perfect strike can cause one of the tools to chip, and those chips can cause very serious injuries. Always strike with a soft hammer. If you don’t have one make one. If you don’t want to make one buy one from us or another smith. 👍🏻

We use this technique in our intro to knife making because students that have never forged can do it. As they progress and grow in skill they switch to using a single crosspeen to do the spreading. This is a great way for them to win right way and start getting the concepts of spreading.

Want to learn more? Come take a class and see what we can make together- https://fireironforge.com/classes

04/22/2026

Ty of made a sweet short sword! Here he’s appropriately breaking it in at our local hammer in. 🤣

Made quick work of the pork shoulder we cooked for dinner. Don’t try this at home kids.

Interested in making swords? Come take a class and see what we can make together- https://fireironforge.com/classes

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7270 Crenshaw Street
Rathdrum, ID
83858

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Monday 10am - 7pm
Tuesday 10am - 7pm
Wednesday 10am - 7pm
Thursday 10am - 4pm
Friday 10am - 7pm
Saturday 8am - 7pm

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(208) 620-8738

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