By Pam Johnson, Zip06
November 2024
Greg AmEnde certainly fits the burly type of person one might envision as a blacksmith, but he’ll be the first one to say that skill, not muscle, is required to master this historically important craft.
“There is the stereotype of the big guy, and I probably propagate that because I’m 6’ 3” and have a beard and all that. But some of the best blacksmiths I know are petite women,“ Greg says. ”It really comes down to skill over brute force. If you learn the correct techniques on how to read the metal and understand what you’re doing, you can do anything you want.”
