The majority of these photos were taken at the Mabee Farm in Rotterdam Junction, NY on April 25th, 2004. Nearly every year in April the Farm hosts a blacksmithing timeline in which shows the progression of blacksmithing through out various sections of history.
Cormac (center) and Raffan (right) firmly secure the shelter poles while Bjorn cuts them to size.
No frills 5th Century AD mobile Irish smithy or "cerdcha" in ancient Gaelic.
Raffan (right) keeps working the bellows while Cormac forges away.
Cormac takes time out to calmly hold the tent down while the winds pick up.
Cormac secures the clay tuyeres to the leather connecting tube and bellows.
Cormac focuses in on detail work on a small cloak pin.
Cormac tends the fire at another blacksmithing event called "Blacksmithing Days - Age of Iron"