{"id":705,"date":"2020-09-17T12:05:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T19:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rubschlager.com\/matt\/?page_id=705"},"modified":"2020-09-17T12:05:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T19:05:36","slug":"blacksmith-forge","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/blacksmith-forge\/","title":{"rendered":"Blacksmith \/ Forge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can&#8217;t really call myself a Smith, but maybe a novice at best.  I&#8217;ve made a few pieces, have enjoyed every minute, and as my skill increases I take deeper satisfaction in finishing a project.  I&#8217;m still building out my shop which is a project in itself. Lack of some of the tools makes the work more challenging, but it helps me build my metal working skill by doing most tasks by hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To get started I took classes from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oaksbottomforge.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Oaks Bottom Forge<\/a> in <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pictures of some of my work are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/photos\/shared\/MBL9iabDTRSGrbPgRKKZRA.niwZIYg9BTsoD1b47Jp4qZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t really call myself a Smith, but maybe a novice at best. I&#8217;ve made a few pieces, have enjoyed every minute, and as my skill increases I take deeper satisfaction in finishing a project. I&#8217;m still building out my shop which is a project in itself. Lack of some of the tools makes the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-705","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}