This week’s summary was written by Ashton Macklin ’27 (light blue shirt)with Albert “Al-Boss” Bosler ’25 (dark blue shirt) This week saw our class engage in its sixth lab: Blacksmithing. The lab was made only possible with the much-appreciated guidance of a guest: local Northfield blacksmith, Martin Pansch. Coincidentally, Martin is the smith under which…
This week, our Thursday lab was centered around the medieval (and early modern) technology of blacksmithing. Special guest blacksmith Martin Pansch taught us the process of heating up our fires and forging roves (square washers) and nails for construction. This was largely an experiential lab, with it almost impossible to collect unique hard data and…
The aim of our week 7 lab was to create nails and roves in accordance with historical practices. That being said, this week’s data was a bit difficult to measure for me as my group ended up with three people and thus we all had tasks to do to keep the process going. I was…
This week, we worked on blacksmithing, focusing more on the experience of doing metalsmithing than doing an experiment. With the guidance of expert blacksmith Martin Pansch, we created nails and roves. My group created a coal fire and kept it hot with the use of a blower, putting metal into the fire and working on…