In this 5 day intensive, students will make a frontier style knife with a wood handle and then hot punch a hole through 1/4" round stock to forge a hatchet that will then be fit with a hickory handle. Students must be able to swing a sledge hammer. Students will need safety glasses, leather work gloves,(welding gauntlets not needed) and should wear jeans, a non-flammable cotton shirt and/or jacket, and closed-toed boots or leather shoes. Our forge is an outdoor building that is only semi-enclosed; please dress accordingly. For full-day workshops, please bring a lunch to be on the safe side, as there may or may not be time to get food during a lunch break.