Fire Steel Forging with Ian Pratt One day class - pick either May 12th or 13th , 2022.  $200 class fee includes your onsite meals and lodging. No additional material fee. Loaner tools provided or bring your own.   CLASS HAS FILLED FOR BOTH DAYS

Learn how to properly forge and temper traditionally styled, hot sparking fire steels. No prior blacksmithing work needed.  Weather permitting we will hold this workshop near one of the waterfalls or rock shelters along one of the numerous trails at Canter's Cave, which means we'll have a short but beautiful hike in and out a couple times a day  - unless we decide to take our food in with us. This is going to be a fun, laid back kind of a class and  it would make a nice add-on for one of the two or three day classes ! 


This class and all other SOAW classes are held at Canter's Cave in Jackson, Ohio. 

This will be a small class, probably only four participants each day. If you'd like registration info or want to send some questions, click the button below 

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​About the instructor - Gunmaker Ian Pratt built his first longrifle in 1996. Within ten years he was building rifles full time. Specializing in iron mounted guns, Ian’s unique flintlock rifles and handmade knives have become among the  “most wanted” by shooters and collectors from all over the country.

A true black powder fanatic, Ian hunts and shoots almost exclusively with a pair of muzzleloading guns which he built. He is dedicated to sharing with newcomers his passion for using flintlock arms, and to passing along his years of accumulated knowledge and skills.  He has taught various classes in gun building, knife making and forge work at the Log Cabin Shop, Conner Prairie, the Washington Historical Gunmakers’ Guild, for the NMLRA both at their annual Gunsmithing Seminars at Western Kentucky University and at their educational facility in friendship, Indiana , and at Jim Chambers Flintlocks in Candler , North Carolina. His work has been featured in many publications including Muzzleloader Magazine, American Tradition, Muzzle Blasts, and American Frontiersman, and his thoughts on longrifle building may be heard on podcasts with Ethan Yazel of ilovemuzzleloading.com

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