Rodriguez Blacksmithing

09/15/2019

On our way to DAY 2 at the Soule Homestead Education Center Harvest Fair...

The sun is shining and we are fired up for day two of the Harvest Fair 🔥 11am till 5pm today! Come down for live music, activities for the kids, food! More details at the link below!

09/15/2019

So nice to meet the GREAT folks from Tilth & Timber! GREAT time at the Soule Homestead Education Center Harvest Fair...

09/14/2019

Side tracked from the welding for customers asking for more hooks.

09/14/2019

Welding 5/8" cable into a knife blank. Hopefully I have enough LP!

09/14/2019

Soule Homestead Harvest Fair and the Joe Davies Music Festival... and me! Going on now!!!

05/05/2019

I think I'd like to own a small homestead like this, one day...

Drummer Boy Park with the Gristmill, a one room home, and the blacksmith shop... pretty much my dream property.

05/05/2019

Demonstrating at the Blacksmith Shop for the Brewster Historical Society.

05/02/2019

Hello interested parties! I will be demonstrating traditional blacksmithing techniques at the Brewster in Bloom Festival this weekend, May 4th. Located at 773 Main St. Brewster, in Drummer Boy Park. Music, food, maybe some flowers...? I don't know.

I will be offering plant hooks for sale! Just in time for, well... Plants! Woohoo!

It's been awhile since I've messed with a coal forge, but I'm good at lighting fires, so we'll see how that goes.

See you there!

-Joe

03/21/2018

It's a scrolly world out there folks!
Plant, birdfeeder, wind chime hooks!
On sale April 5th, at the Sip & Stroll!

03/08/2018

Hi Everyone! I'm back! Smiting glowing hot iron, reshaping steel to my every whim! Hahahaaaa!

Anywho, I'm working towards my first Spring season craft show. Probably a lot of plant hooks. Think, "Plant hooks." Lots of 'em. Well, some. A few. It's a work in progress...

The winter season of delivering oil, propane, and diesel is slowing down, which means the smithy is heating up! Woohoo! The smithy is the workshop, by the way, not me. Like, "The smith works in the smithy." But I did break a sweat the other day as I was hammering away. It was like 40 degrees. Not bragging, just saying.

Okay, so here's the little craft show. It's called a Sip & Stroll. You arrive, grab a cocktail, and strooooollllllll, quite leisurely, as you enjoy the local crafts. Then whip out the wallets! Yeah!

Or just stop in, say hi, and leave empty handed. Kinda sad, really, but your choice.

04/10/2017

Hi! Remember me? Just your friendly neighborhood blacksmith.

Well, it seems like the busy winter season of propane and fuel oil delivery is over (it should be... it's nearly 70° here). So I'm back in the shop.

My business partner (and wife/BFF/Bae) and I decided to lessen my participation in the local and quite worthy craft fairs, and focus on increasing my skills and creativity at the anvil. Hopefully, fewer shows will equal better product. That's the goal.

Today, I am testing and refining some tools I made over the winter. I'll post a picture of the tool I made that helped produce this: a forged shoulder and tenon from 3/4 sq. It'll be the main arm for a slightly elaborate wall bracket. Cleaned up with some light filing.