Lee Pickard

hello I am lee pickard 23 yrs old and a artist blacksmith from England hope your all well I thought id just ask if anyone is in need of a journeyman blacksmith with 4 years experience or if anyone has any long term work in which they are looking for someone to work with I can send a skills based c.v to anyone interested. hope to hear back from you cheers!

have a great time guys and don't let jimmy have any apple pie.... hahaha!

Between the hammer an the anvil: judas priest

Yeah jus nipped back right quick an haha! VIP now mate! Lol

Erm ozzy and yorkshire made tongs.... Haha!

You had loads o pie moony! Lol.

In critique my work section there are pics of my work or visit my blog leepickardartistblacksmith.blogspot.com Hope ya like my stuff :)

Iv had my fill of apple pie dont worry phil haha!

Hahaha! Big british forklift! Cheers! :)

Unlucky iron woody sorry ya cant be there! Everyone else lets get mohhammered!!!!

Visit hereford they have the national school of blacksmithing there! Good luck!

Look into herefords ba hons artist blacksmithing degree i have jus qualified an now im in australia workin for a blacksmith for a year or so as a journeyman, best 3 years of my life wasnt at all like 6th form or normal education if your serious about learnin hereford weather its the technical course or artist blacksmithing degree is the place to go! Plumpton is okay but not as good as hereford but it is run by a great guy called ricky! If ya go say hi from me! Good luck there is hope you jus gotta work for it an really want it an keep a very open mind!

Ohhh an sorry woody :P

Hey andrew i would like to come but its up to moony cos i cant drive but il ask him! Thanks a lot for the invite tho :) hopefully see ya then if not at get hammered!

Im here already! Arrived yesterday fresh from old Blighty!

Hahaha! Yeah its fairly high cheers im off to work in australia for a year tomorrow so that will be awesome! Thanks again!

Non taken but thanks anyways best of luck :)

Awesome! Cant wait! Yeah we will sort everything for get mohammed when i arrive gonna be a blast!! Lookin forward to meetin everyone :)

Haha! Im a artist blacksmith i take a concept and design a piece based around the concept or clients brief all my stuff is functional its just unique in design but traditional in the techniques used to create it. Good luck if ya get to hereford its a good place.

I have just graduated from the b.a hons artist blacksmithing degree at hereford and i cant recomend the courses enough wether its technical blacksmithing your interested in or the artist blacksmithing hereford is a great place to train and learn an the staff are second to non!

get some plastercine and hit it with a hammer in your flat, it behaves in the same way hot metal will just is a alot quicker and requires less force. when i was doing my degree in artist blacksmithing i had a block of plastercine and always every night when i wasnt at the forge or needed to clarify something in my head or figure something out i used a small hammer or big dont matter and plastercine and it was invaluable! an the good thing is you can take plastercine anywhere an mess around always learning :)

And yeah usiing a hammer and forge tools along with plastercine is a easy way to see what will happen if you do certain things to hot steel its a quick easy way to test ideas and go through stages of production an overcome obsticles in the making process

The design process is simple :) research, analiyse, design, develop, sample and model, access any needed changes as a result of sampling and modelling then make!! And enjoy! I hope this is off some use :)

Not long now everyone!! Is there going to be a theme or a project we all help to produce or is it just forge what you wish??

Hey Dale well excited to be comin from UK to oz!! Can't wait for get hammered an to meet everyone!