Welcome to the forge!
Hi, my name’s Joe and this is the Hogs Forge website. I’m a 20 year old from Stockport, learning the craft of blacksmithing. I hope you’ll join me on my forging journey. Please have a look around at my online shop and blogs, and if you’ve any questions please do contact me. Feel free to sign up to updates about upcoming events and news too. Thank you for visiting!
Where the magic happens!
This is the forge as it was being built. We hadn’t put the windows in yet, but as you can see by the chimney the most important thing is there - the forge itself! But there was still a lot of work to be done.
At the moment in the forge, I’m quickly acquiring lots of tools and needing to make space for them all. Me and my dad keep having to make new shelves to store our tools, PPE and our steel stock!
Featured product
Roses are delicate and beautiful, and definitely not what you’d normally associate with something tough and hard like metal! But I thought I’d try to combine 2 great materials to make something beautiful; these copper and steel roses. They are all hand made and hand forged, so each one is unique. They would be a great 6th or 11th wedding anniversary present, or a gift for a friend or loved one. they can now be ordered with a wooden base that allows them to be positioned upright which may suit your preferences more. They’re approximately 300mm long and 120mm wide. The steel is coated in a semi-permanent interior coating and the wooden bases have a felt covering on the bottom.