Melton Forge Works Podcast

Episode 56 20.01.2022 21:18 ↓

How learning guitar and learning blacksmithing are similar. Website updates and getting ready for the Texas blacksmith conference in La Grange, Tx January 28

Episode 55 10.01.2022 15:51 ↓

Just catching up from the holidays. What I’ve been up to and some things coming in the next few weeks.

Episode 54 17.11.2021 20:45 ↓

Quick recap of the last tire hammer build and some suggestions for increasing your sales using social media and web pages

Episode 53 28.10.2021 34:03 ↓

Shop talk about using technology in the blacksmith shop, a new anvil and another tire hammer.

Episode 52 04.09.2021 27:32 ↓

Using material with a story, catching up after hurricane Ida and a cool story about a couple of new hammers I received.

Episode 51 17.08.2021 25:50 ↓

Shop maintenance tasks. Induction forge problems, coffee scoops and railroad spike knife classes

Episode 50 21.07.2021 32:30 ↓

Catching up on the last few weeks. Talking about the process of product development in a small shop in regards to the coffee scoop project.

Episode 49 - Blade Show 13.06.2021 23:07 ↓

A short review of my weekend at Blade Show 2021 in Atlanta

Episode 48 03.06.2021 36:36 ↓

What I’ve been up to during the end of May and into the first week of June. Laser cut bottle opener blanks and 3D printing.

Episode 47 - A bit of personal info and catching up on the last week 15.05.2021 25:04 ↓

Mental health & how I try to keep it in check. Catching up on the last weeks of April

Episode 46 - John Rigoni 27.04.2021 56:32 ↓

Today's episode is an interview with John Rigoni of Rigoni Ironworks.  John is a blacksmith and firefighter from Texas. He's one of my heroes in the craft and he's got an amazing YouTube channel with some of the cleanest forging you'll see. He's a very talented guy and I was thankful to be able to talk to him about his background, some of his tools and his thoughts on his work ethic in the shop. E...

Episode 45 24.04.2021 29:00 ↓

What I’ve been up to this week. Unloading tire hammers, unboxing the mr volcano forge

Episode 44 12.04.2021 31:09 ↓

Workshop talk and a short re-cap from my 3rd tire hammer workshop.

Episode 43 07.04.2021 19:00 ↓

Catching up on what I'm doing, shop cleanup and a bit of talk about the ABANA virtual learning class "Business of Blacksmithing"

Episode 42 23.03.2021 20:09 ↓

What I’ve been up to the past week and a recap from the LAMA conference

Episode 41 - The Facebook Rant 13.03.2021 19:00 ↓

We’ve all had negative experiences on Facebook in blacksmithing or bladesmith groups, Some of those groups are really helpful, some not so much. I’ll give a few thoughts on the topic.

Episode 40 - 2nd interview with Nils Ögren 09.03.2021 1:23:54 ↓

Episode 40, interview with Nils Ogren, blacksmith and axe maker from Sweden. We catch up on what he's been up to this year including his experience with Forged in Fire in Sweden, his new Power Hammer and some talk about how we both are using the web and social media for our blacksmithing businesses.

Episode 39 03.03.2021 29:58 ↓

Catching up over a long break from podcasting and a bit of small business talk

Episode 38 09.01.2021 24:01 ↓

Year in review Q&A

Episode 37 09.12.2020 33:40 ↓

Tire hammer lessons and miscellaneous ramblings

Episode 36 - October tire hammer build workshop 28.10.2020 35:03 ↓

We built 32 enhanced Clay Spencer tire hammers in 2.5 days. The episode has audio before during snd after the build.

Episode 35 22.10.2020 19:02 ↓

Gearing up for the tire hammer build. Finishing another batch of steak turners and talking about letter stamping in steel.

Episode 34 - September-October updates 12.10.2020 31:31 ↓

A recap of the last few weeks and a look ahead to the end of October

Episode 33 - Railroad spikes 09.09.2020 30:47 ↓

In this episode I talk about the merits of using railroad spikes in blacksmithing Work and some of the controversy around them.

Episode 32 - business & website chat 31.08.2020 18:17 ↓

Talk about my business process thoughts, social media and websites