Demonstrating Blacksmithing

There are many different eras of blacksmithing that the blacksmith can demonstrate in. From the Viking era to WWI and to General Blacksmith demonstrations.

• Checklist for Demonstrators - Stuff you may wish to take with you.
• Civil War Blacksmithing - Civil War Blacksmithing and Living History/Reenacting.
• General Demonstrating Tips - General tips that can be applied to blacksmithing demonstrations.
• Mountain Man /Fur Trapping Era Blacksmithing? Information for those re-creating the time of the Mountain Man/Fur Trapper
• Renaissance Era Blacksmithing? - Demonstrating for the Renaissance Era of Knight and Kings.
• Revoluntionary War & Colonial Blacksmithing? - Tips more specific to Colonial Blacksmithing Period blacksmithing as well as Colonial/Revoluntionary War living history/re-enacting.
• World War I Blacksmithing? - Tip specific to WWI Blacksmithing

-- RebStaup - 26 Jan 2008

• My guess is that because of our proximity to Gettysburg and other major Civil War locations, the majority of reenactors here-abouts tend to gravitate to the CIVIL WAR.
  As a matter of fact, I ran into a number of blacksmiths at a national level Mountain Man rendevous in Maine a few years back. One of them turned out to be our own BGCM President and his family.
  The SCA has an active YAHOO group devoted to metalsmithing, to include blacksmithing, casting, to jewelry making.
  Based on conversations with people in these different "time periods" they don't see their participation as strictly a for-profit venture, rather blacksmithing is their view into that time and culture.
  

AlbinDrzewianowski
Westminster, MD
"The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne"
10 Mar 2008

• What about the French Indian War time period?? Should that be folded in with Revolutionary War/Colonial or have a topic of its own?? -- AlbinDrzewianowski - 27 Jan 2008