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Welcome to BlacksmitHER Radio, spotlighting male and female blacksmiths around the world.

 

We’re committed to providing a host of resources to male and female blacksmiths of all ability levels through podcast interviews spotlighting your fellow blacksmiths. The podcast interviews are designed to help improve your metal working skills while providing an opportunity to connect with others who share your passion of blacksmithing!  

May 4, 2015

This is a quick interview with Don Hanson to learn some tidbits about him in a short amount of time.  Don Hanson is a hobby blacksmith who lives in Colorado Springs, CO.  He is a retired Fiber Optics Project Manager and has been blacksmithing since 2001.  Don designs and forges architectural ironwork, home furnishings, and roses for a local festival called Territory Days.

 

If you want to hear more from Don Hanson, you can listen to our in-depth interview, that will soon be available on the BlacksmitHER.com podcast page.

 

Don Hanson Tidbits in this Episode:

  • Don performs demonstrations every year at the Territory Days Festival in Old Colorado City.  In the podcast, he talks about how demonstrating is valuable to perfecting your techniques.

 

  • ·He has picked up many of his tongs at flea markets and modified them.

 

  • ·His favorite tool a Clay Spencer designed treadle hammer that he built in a Rocky Mountain Smiths workshop.

 

  • ·Don doesn’t listen to music while he works.  He likes to listen to the equipment running so he can be aware of problems that may arise.

 

  • ·He would love to spend a day working with and learning from Francis Whitaker; a very accomplished master blacksmith here in the US.   

 

 

Don Hanson Links:

 

Well, he doesn’t have any - he spends very little time on the computer.

 

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