Best The BuRN Network Metalworking Podcasts (2025)

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Ep 128 Pete Mattila "There is a responsibility with blacksmithing" 1:03:29

6y ago1:03:29

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This week I’ve got Pete Mattila from Tasmania, which is off the southern coast of Australia. We talk about his shop by the water’s edge, his US apprentice journey, and his design process. Before we get to the interview I wanted to mention today’s sponsors, First we have the Adirondack Folk School. It’s a non-profit school located in Lake Luzerne, i…

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Ep 127 Iron Maegan Crowley 36:35

6y ago36:35

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Hello welcome to episode 127 I am continuing my series of 12 podcast interviews (one a month) focusing on Design Process, Forging Process and Tool Making. Today I have Maegan Crowley from Colorado, she started her metal business in 2006 after attaining her Master of Fine Art from Cranbrook Academy. I’d also like to thank today’s sponsor, Even Heat,…

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Ep 126 Jeffery Funk on Design, Forging Process and Tool Making 55:10

6+ y ago55:10

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Hello welcome to episode 126, as I mentioned before in the last episode, I’ve decided to do a series of 12 podcast interviews (one a month) focusing on the guest's Design Process, Forging Process and Tool Making. We begin with Jeffery Funk who has been working iron, bronze, stainless steel, and other metals for over forty years in a small shop outs…

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Ep 125 - 2019 Show 7:24

6+ y ago7:24

7:24

Hello Happy New Year, welcome to 2019 and episode 125! I've decided on a different format for this year's podcast. I sat down recently and came up with 3 main topics and questions within each topic. I will ask the next 10 or so guests the same questions and hopefully dive deep into their Design Process, Forging Process and Tool Making. Those are th…

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Ep 124 Ambrose Burne “#150mmchallenge” 29:47

6+ y ago29:47

29:47

This week I’ve got Ambrose Burne, a very talented artist blacksmith living in Hereford, England. He attended the Artist Blacksmith program at the Hereford College of the Arts and then opened his own forge and is a lecturer on the BA (Hons) Artist Blacksmithing program for Hereford. Today we talk about his background a bit and about the 150mm Challe…

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Episode #123 – Michael Budd 1:02:51

6+ y ago1:02:51

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This week I’ve got Michael Budd back on the show, he’s a very talented artist blacksmith from Sligo Ireland. We talk about his trip to Tomsk Russia this past summer, where he was invited to demonstrate at a festival called “The Festival of the Ax”. What We Talked About He attended a festival, the Festival of the Ax, as a demonstrator in Tomsk Russi…

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Blacksmith Buzz Bulletin for Nov 2018 3:14

6+ y ago3:14

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This is the monthly Blacksmith Buzz Bulletin. Where you get the low-down about upcoming classes and events that are happening in the following month, I’ll be telling you about classes and events happening in November 2018. If you have an event or class you would like to submit, send an email to [email protected] and I will send you the details …

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Ep 122 Anna Koplik "Weaponry Flatware" 18:27

6+ y ago18:27

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This week I’ve got Anna Koplik, a young blacksmith who is currently completing an artist residency at the Touchstone Center for Crafts in Farmington, Pennsylvania. She talks about her BFA in Jewelry and how she became interested in weaponry during college, which ended up being her intro to blacksmithing. Before we get to the interview I wanted to m…

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Blacksmith Buzz Bulletin For the month of Oct 2018 4:59

6+ y ago4:59

4:59

This is the monthly Blacksmith Buzz Bulletin. Where you get the low-down about upcoming classes and events that are happening in the following month, I’ll be telling you about classes and events happening in October 2018. If you have an event or class you would like to submit, send an email to [email protected] and I will send you the details I…

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Blacksmith Buzz Bulletin For the month of September 2018 6:36

7y ago6:36

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This is the monthly Blacksmith Buzz Bulletin. Where you get the low-down about upcoming classes and events that are happening in the following month, I’ll be telling you about classes and events happening in September 2018. If you have an event or class you would like to submit, send an email to [email protected] and I will send you the details…

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Blacksmith Buzz Bulletin Aug 2018 6:03

7y ago6:03

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This is the monthly Blacksmith Buzz Bulletin. Where you get the low-down about upcoming classes and events that are happening in the following month, though this month I’ll be telling you about classes and events happening in August 2018. If you have an event or class you would like to submit, send an email to [email protected] and I will send …

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Ep 121 – Bob Bergman “Eight ways to make a buck” 1:00:28

7y ago1:00:28

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This week I’ve got Bob Bergman from Blanchardville Wisconsin. He bought an old blacksmith shop 50 years ago in Postville, Wisconsin. He talks about his beginnings and traveling through Europe working and learning at 15 different shops over 2 months. He tells us the history behind the Postville Blacksmith shop which started in 1856. What We Talked A…

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Blacksmith Buzz Bulletin for July 2018 7:59

7y ago7:59

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This is the monthly Blacksmith Buzz Bulletin. Where you get the low-down about upcoming classes and events that are happening in the following month, though this month I’ll be telling you about classes and events happening in July 2018. If you have an event or class you would like to submit, send an email to [email protected] and I will send yo…

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Blacksmith Buzz Bulletin for June 2018 5:10

7y ago5:10

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This is the monthly Blacksmith Buzz Bulletin. Where you get the low-down about upcoming classes and events that are happening in the following month, though this month I’ll be telling you about classes and events happening in June 2018.

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Blacksmith Buzz Bulletin For the month of May 2018 6:05

7y ago6:05

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This is the monthly Blacksmith Buzz Bulletin. Where you get the low-down about upcoming classes and events that are happening in the following month, though this month I’ll be telling you about classes and events happening in May 2018. If you have an event or class you would like to submit, send an email to [email protected] and I will send you…

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Ep 120 Live Interviews from Blacksmith Events 19:20

7y ago19:20

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I talk to a couple of demonstrators while they were demonstrating at events this past weekend. First I talk with Payne Anne Chassen and Sylvia Andrassy, they are in Pampano Beach, Florida for the FABA SE Regional meet. The meet was held at the Guild, a non-profit folk art school started by Shaun Williams and Sylvia Andrassy. Payne was demonstrating…

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Ep #119 - CBA 2018 Spring Conference Crew 43:21

7y ago43:21

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This week I’ve got the CBA Spring Conference organizers, the crew that has dedicated countless volunteer hours of their time planning and scheduling the CBA 40th Anniversary Spring Conference coming up April 12 – 14 in Placerville, CA. The crew consists of Dennis Dusek, the conference chair, aka the big cheese, Dan Perkins, who is the CBA Education…

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Blacksmith Buzz Bulletin For the month of April 2018 6:24

7y ago6:24

6:24

This is the Blacksmith Buzz Bulletin. Where you get the low-down about upcoming classes and events that are happening in the following month, though this month I’ll be telling you about classes and events happening in April 2018. I’ve got a lot of schools and events lined up for the rest of the year coming at you every month. If you have an event o…

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Ep 118 Tips and Tricks from Associations 13:25

7y ago13:25

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Today I’m going to share a few tips and tricks I’ve found in various blacksmith association newsletters. I’m not sure how many of you are ABANA members and receive the Hammers Blow quarterly Journal, I do and The current editor is, Dan Nauman, wrote a small article titled Picture That about photography, mainly photographing your work. In my local b…

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Ep 117 Michael Whipps "New Metal Podcast" 50:45

7+ y ago50:45

50:45

Guest Intro paragraph This week I’ve got Michael Whipps from Melbourne Australia, btw he goes by Whipps. He’s a metal worker who makes custom spherical firepits with his wife in Australia and he started blacksmithing about 6 months ago. The reason I have him on today is to talk about his new podcast “Metal Sculpture Show”. I think I’ve mentioned th…

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Ep 116 Haley Woodward and Colby Brinkman 1:03:11

7+ y ago1:03:11

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This week I’ve got Haley Woodward and Colby Brinkman out of Austin Texas. To get a good idea of each of their forging skills have a look at each of their websites, www.Haleywoodward.com and www.metalmantis.com . We had a great conversation about the each of their blacksmithing backgrounds, the Austin Forging Competition they started, which by the w…

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Blacksmith Buzz Bulletin for March 2018 4:13

7+ y ago4:13

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This is the Blacksmith Buzz Bulletin. Where you get the low-down about upcoming classes and events that are happening in the following month, I’m talking about March 2018 for this bulletin. If you have an event or class you would like to submit, send an email to [email protected] and I will send you the details I need for the press release.…

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Ep 115 Ellen Durkan "Forged Fashion" 25:15

7+ y ago25:15

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This is week I have a returning guest, Ellen Durkan, from Delaware. She’s an incredibly talented artist blacksmith that has a line of metal dresses called Forged Fashion. She is also an adjunct professor at the Delaware College of Art and Design. She will be a demonstrator at the upcoming CBA Spring Conference and that also happens to be the sponso…

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Ep #114 – An American Blacksmith in Cuba 15:32

7+ y ago15:32

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For this episode I wanted to share an article from the latest Jan/Feb issue of the California Blacksmith Association magazine. It’s about a CBA member, Serene Silva of Santa Cruz, travelling to Cuba in search of blacksmiths. She was awarded a grant from CBA for the trip and this article is part of her commitment to CBA in exchange for the grant. I …

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Ep #113 – David Lisch “The Pilot for Forged in Fire Story” 41:47

7+ y ago41:47

41:47

This week I’ve got David Lisch, he’s a blacksmith turned award-winning Master Smith knife maker, from Yelm, Washington. A respected innovator of unique guard designs and Damascus steel that can be seen in his beautiful knives. David has run a successful blacksmith business for 25 years in Seattle and now teaches at his school, Oak Grove Forging Fac…

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Blacksmith Buzz Bulletin Jan 2018 10:02

7+ y ago10:02

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This is the Blacksmith Buzz Bulletin. Where you get the low-down about upcoming classes and events that are happening in the following month, though this month I’ll be telling you about classes and events happening in January and Feb 2018. I’ve got a lot of schools and events lined up for the rest of the year coming at you every month. If you have …

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Ep #112 Evan Wilson "Acrobatics around the Anvil" 35:20

7+ y ago35:20

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Guest Intro paragraph This week I’ve got Evan Wilson from Austin, Texas who is the program director for the blacksmith shop at this nonprofit community organization called Mobile Loaves and Fishes. The Community Forge & Woodshop empowers their community of homeless members to engage in the creation of timeless crafts while also earning a dignified …

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Ep #111 – “Like Going To Church But Different” 38:35

7+ y ago38:35

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This week’s guests are Shaun Williams and Sylvia Andrassy from Pampano Beach. FL. Shaun has been blacksmithing for 10 years and is the SE Regional coordinator of the Florida Artist Blacksmith Association. Sylvia was this year’s FABA conference event coordinator. Together they have started a non-profit folk art school called the Guild Urban Craft an…

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Ep #110 Right or left-handed tongs? 5:13

7+ y ago5:13

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This week’s episode is a quick one! I’m a member of the California Blacksmith Association and receive the bi-monthly magazine which is expertly put together by Mike Mumford, he does a great job every time. The latest Nov/Dec issue he wrote an article about something he saw in the education tent at the last CBA 2017 Spring Conference. Kevin Lauritse…

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Blacksmith Buzz Bulletin for December 2017 9:43

7+ y ago9:43

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This is the Blacksmith Buzz Bulletin. Where you get the low-down about upcoming classes and events that are happening in the following month, I’m talking about December 2017 for this bulletin. If you have an event or class you would like to submit, send an email to [email protected] and I will send you the details I need for the press release. …

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Ep #109 – Larry Wood “SOFA & Quad State Round-up History” 44:46

7+ y ago44:46

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This week I’ve got Larry Wood on the line from Ohio. Last month, in September one of the most coveted blacksmith conferences was held in Troy, Ohio, it’s called the Quad State Round-up. It’s known for its well-appointed venue that offers a large soft grass camping area, exceptional demonstration buildings, the largest number of tailgate tools sales…

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BlacksmitHer Buzz Bulletin for Nov 2017 3:23

7+ y ago3:23

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This is the Blacksmith Buzz Bulletin. Where you will get the low-down, monthly, about upcoming classes and events that are happening in the following month, which will be November 2017 for this bulletin. If you have an event or class you would like to submit, send an email to [email protected] and I will send you the details I need for the pres…

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Ep #105 – Joseph Campbell “ Metal Collaborative Studio” 34:55

8y ago34:55

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Joseph Campbell is an architectural metal fabricator who owns Metal Inc and the Metal Collaborative Studio in Philadelphia, PA. You’ll hear Joe talk about the Metal Collaborative membership, it’s like a gym membership but to a metal studio outfitted with welding and blacksmithing equipment. It’s an interesting business model that I wish would grow,…

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Blacksmith Buzz Bulletin for July 2017 7:46

8y ago7:46

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This is the Blacksmith Buzz Bulletin. Where you will get the low-down about upcoming current blacksmithing events happening around the world. The bulletins are released once a month and will announce events happening in the following month. If you have an event or class you would like to submit, send an email to [email protected] and I will sen…

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Ep #104 Vince Nakovics "The Blacksmith Murders" 39:39

8y ago39:39

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Vince Nakovics is currently living in Shkoder, Albania, he and his wife moved there in 2012. You will hear what the blacksmith scene is like there in the interview. Prior to moving to Albania, he lived in Virginia Beach VA, which is where he began to blacksmith and eventually became the Tidewater Blacksmith’s Guild’s newsletter editor for 6 years. …

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Ep #103 Stuart Shirley "CMA Internship" 37:13

8y ago37:13

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Stuart Shirley is a college student at the Colorado School of Mines, he is obtaining a 4 year degree from the Colorado School of Mines in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering. Currently, as part of pursuing his degree, he is completing an internship at the Center for Metal Arts in Florida New York. What We Talked About Stuart’s interest in black…

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Blacksmith Buzz Bulletin For the month of June 2017 8:18

8y ago8:18

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This is the Blacksmith Buzz Bulletin. Where you will get the low-down about upcoming current blacksmithing events happening around the world. The bulletins are released once a month and will announce events happening in the following month. If you have an event or class you would like to submit, send an email to [email protected] and I will sen…

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Ep #102 David Robertson “Art History in Iron from 3500 BC” 42:26

8y ago42:26

42:26

Welcome to episode #102 and I have David Robertson with us today, he’s a professional artist blacksmith from Ontario Canada, in fact, he’s been in business for 30 years as of this year… congratulations David! We talk about how he kept busy when starting out as a full time blacksmith and his latest Art History in Iron course he taught at the Hallibu…

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May 2017 Blacksmith Buzz Bulletin 8:57

8y ago8:57

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This is the BlacksmitHER Buzz Bulletin. Where you will get the low-down about upcoming current blacksmithing events happening around the world. The bulletins are released once a month and will announce events happening in the following month. If you have an event or class you would like to submit, send an email to [email protected] and I will s…

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100th ep Final 25:36

8y ago25:36

25:36

Yup, this is my 100th episode. Bob Menard from the New England Blacksmiths just asked me the other day did you envision the 100th when you started? The answer is NO Way! The reason I started this podcast 3 years ago was to help create a tighter knit blacksmith community around the world, to aid and encourage forging new connections by having casual…

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Episode #99 – Julida Alter “The Blacksmith’s Daughters” 18:40

8y ago18:40

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Julida Alter is the youngest of 6 in a strong Polish Catholic family where her father and two brothers are blacksmiths. Julida and her sister are part of a 4-person band called “The Blacksmith’s Daughters”, they are located outside of Minneapolis Minnesota. Recently formed in 2015, The Blacksmith's Daughters (a family folk/pop band) believe that mu…

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Ep #98 – James Garvey “The Statue of Liberty and Clark bar” 41:59

8y ago41:59

41:59

Welcome to episode number 98 with James Garvey. He is an artist blacksmith just outside of New York City in Piermont NY. His training includes 6 years at the Art Department of Colorado State University and 10 years as head of Blacksmithing at the Rochester Folk Art Guild. He has designed and built public commissions in Manhattan including works at …

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Ep 97 JayBurn Journal on Punches, Drifts and Top tools 30:43

8+ y ago30:43

30:43

It’s episode #97 and I’ve got another JayBurn Journal for you. A technical article written by Jay Burnham-Kidwell. He’s a longtime blacksmith residing in Arizona, Since 1974, he has worked in various mediums and exhibited his work throughout the world. He works as a studio artist, lecturer, and demonstrator in all kinds of metalsmithing including j…

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Episode #96 – Caitlin Morris “Blacksmith Classes – take and teach” 29:44

8+ y ago29:44

29:44

It’s episode number 96 and I have Caitlin Morris from Frederick, Maryland. Let me introduce her by reading her “about” web page from her http://www.mscaitlinsschool.com/ . “Ms. Caitlin hangs out with the misfits and scallywags. She sings loudly and out of tune. She is partial to walks in the rain. But the most important thing is this: Caitlin loves…

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