CAFRE is reintroducing its Level 2 Certificate in Forgework at the Enniskillen Campus this September, the first time since 2015.

As part of their blacksmith training, club members have also been taught hammer signals, which are helpful for team striking, when two people take turns hitting the same piece of metal.

John Latowski takes a blacksmith’s hammer and whacks at a glowing metal rod to shape a narrower point. It goes more quickly when he pops the rod under a machine, built in 1906, that continuously ...