Developing further as a Blacksmith by Patrick Beck

Harjoitus tekee mestarin

Means: Practive makes the master (Practice makes perfect).
In German: Übung macht den Meister.

In Patrick's lecture, the emphasis was on that.

In addition to the clear and enthusiastic presentation, the interesting discussion yielded several tips.

• Look closely at how beginners and advanced people work.
• You may see something that you are not doing right and that you never knew about.
• Think carefully about how you do something and look back at how you did it. Could it have been done differently?
• Practice lots of basic techniques.
• Teaching a skill to others
• Look closely at old works, examine them and try to copy the way they were made.
• For example, draw out the connections so that each step in the process is embedded in your mind.
• Attend many conferences and forging events.
• Learn to observe your own results while working. Learn from your own results.
• Take the correct measurements of workpieces and starting materials and record them.
• Take notes while you work and observe.
• Study old textbooks and try to copy the techniques.

The best advice I ever got was: keep asking questions. How, what, why?

From beginning to end were 19 very engaged listeners from 10 countries with whom experiences were shared and questions answered.

Thanks to our cooperation with ABANA we will be publishing the recording of this Treff in not too far future.

The next Treff is on April 28 by Marcus Wedra.
Start: 19.00 CEST
Room Open: 18.45 CEST