CFI hasn’t had a hammer-in since fall of 2019, and we are so excited to bring it back! We are changing things up a bit, and we hope you all enjoy! This is the club’s 10th year cultivating the blacksmithing community and spreading public awareness in the greater Spokane area, and we continue to adapt and grow as a blacksmithing club and a volunteer run non-profit. We appreciate everyone’s involvement in making CFI what it is today and helping to create its future! We hope you’ll join us at the spring hammer-in and celebrate our decennial year!

For Beginner Blacksmiths: We will be offering beginning blacksmithing instruction for newcomers or folks who need a refresher during the first half of each day. Those who register for a morning session will learn the basics and be able to make one of a variety of simple projects, like hooks, bottle openers, steak turners, bracelets, leaves, etc. with their instructor and using supplied materials. With your morning registration, which is $45, you are also welcome to stay and watch the afternoon demos. If you want to forge the whole day, you can also sign up for a spot in our open forge in the afternoon (more info below) and continue practicing what you learned in the morning, just make sure to register for both sessions.

For Returning Blacksmiths: In the afternoons, we will be trying out an open forge setup for experienced smiths to work on their own projects, experiment, and learn from each other. We ask that afternoon smiths bring their own steel*, though we will have a limited amount on hand that can be purchased at cost from the club if needed. We will be running both coke and propane forges, and we have 1/4″, 3/8″, and 1/2″ tongs, and a limited variety of punches and chisels. Feel free to bring your own tools to make your project. Registration for the afternoon session is $25 and helps cover the cost of fuel and our insurance. We will also have a few demos going on during the open forge. We cannot allow the forging of weapons at the open forge, sorry.

*If you need to purchase steel, some suppliers include: Alcobra Metals, Pacific Steel & Recycling, and Cd’A Metals.

For Blacksmiths who want to bring their own shop or only want to watch: If you want to bring all your own gear (including forge, fuel, and anvil) to come out and forge with the club over the weekend, we just need you to become a paid member of CFI for insurance reasons. Same for if you’d like to come out and watch the demos in the afternoon but don’t want to forge. Dues are $25 Individual/$35 Household for the calendar year. Walk-ins welcome to pay at the door.

CFI TAILGATE SALE! Have some tools, equipment, or steel laying around that you’d like to offload? Bring it to the hammer-in and sell it to your fellow smiths! Just $10 to vend, free to shop!

CFI Spring Hammer-In

June 10 & 11, 2023
10 AM to 1 PM and 2 PM to 5 PM
At Morgan Jade Ironworks at 2403 E Euclid Avenue

Hammer-In Schedule

(Demos subject to change)

SATURDAY, JUNE 10
10:00 – 5:00
Club Tailgate Sale, CFI Merch Table
10:00 – 1:00
Beginning Blacksmithing (Registration Required)
1:00 – 2:00
Break
2:00 – 5:00
Open Forge (Registration Required)
2:00 – 5:00
David Kailey steel bowl demo
SUNDAY, JUNE 11
10:00 – 5:00
Club Tailgate Sale, CFI Merch Table
10:00 – 1:00
Beginning Blacksmithing (Registration Required)
1:00 – 2:00
Break
2:00 – 5:00
Open Forge (Registration Required)
2:00 – 5:00
David Corn chef’s knife demo
5:00
Hammer-In Closes

Register

If you need to register multiple people or for multiple sessions, please fill out all the fields and select from the drop down menus then click Add To Cart, then repeat the process for each person and session, just checking out once at the end. Everyone will need to sign a liability waiver at the start of the event. Blacksmiths under 18 will need a parent or guardian to sign the liability waiver. Blacksmiths under 16 need to have a guardian present, and 13 is the youngest we can allow at the forge.

Beginner Blacksmithing Morning Session

Sunday AM is filled!


Select Session (drop down)
Experience Level (drop down)
Registrant’s Name
Email Address




Open Forge Afternoon Session – Bring Your Own Steel


Select Session (drop down)
Experience Level (drop down)
REMEMBER: Bring Your Own Steel! (drop down)
Registrant’s Name
Email Address




Tailgate Vendor


What kind of payments can you accept?
What will you be selling?







It’s CFI’s 10 year anniversary, and we will have our new Decennial T-shirts and ladies tanks available at the hammer-in!

We hope you can come out and enjoy this gathering with us and help fuel CFI to keep working toward its mission of supporting and spreading the craft of blacksmithing in our community! If all you need is a club membership because you are bringing your own forge or simply spectating, you can sign up below or take care of it at the door.

2023 CFI MEMBERSHIP


Membership Type
Member Name




SCHOLARSHIPS


If you would like to attend the hammer-in but are financially unable at this time, please email an application to our Scholarship Chair, Melissa, at scholarships@columbiafireandiron.org. It is important to us that everyone be able to access the blacksmithing education that we offer, so we are working to provide a few scholarship spots at our events on an as-needed basis.

CFI is a 501(c)(3) Nonprofit and is entirely volunteer run. THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT!