Town
Forge
Dean Mook Owner/Artist
66 Discovery Crest Pl
Port Townsend, WA 98368
Ph: 360-774-0553
Memorial
Field Gate Project
Dean
Mook, Town Forge, and the students who worked on this project
thank Jefferson County Department of Parks and Recreation for
supporting their blacksmithing program for high school students.
High
School students working on a gate project for Memorial Field in Port
Townsend.
Sam
Smith and Nate Seward, working together to
fuller in the pipe to make the bamboo joints.
Leo
Mook working on the "bamboo".
Sample
of pipe with the bamboo joints at varying stages of completion.
(click the picture for a closeup)
Nate
upsetting the heated pipe at the fullered section to finish
off the stylized bamboo joint.
Sam
upsetting the pipe.
Tri,
assistant blacksmith at Town Forge, heats the pipe joints with
a torch and at the right time cools the forged joint with water.