Blacksmithing Project Shop: Bottle Openers for Beginners

Build your blacksmith skills with a fun and useful project: making a bottle opener. They’re quick to make and can incorporate all basic blacksmithing processes in one compact project. We'll end class with a celebratory bottle-opening to try out your new tool (that means a beer or soda is included!). Open to all experience levels.

Instructor: Nick Heinen looks back to kindergarten for his first experience as a "mechanic," when he started taking things apart without being asked. He studied industrial arts in high school and machining in vo-tech school after that. After a tour in Vietnam, he returned home and ran a remodeling business for 28 years, eventually building his own carpentry, machine, and forging shop. He is a member of the Guild of Metalsmiths and glad to be sharing his lengthy experience at CAFAC.