Entries by Amy

Fly-Presses in the Forge For Forming Metal

We don’t have one, but FIVE presses in our forge! We use them for various processes; to stamp our logo and different designs onto the red-hot metal and we also use the larger ones to form the bowls too!

Life at the Coach House Forge Office

Life at the Coach House Forge Office. What does it take to run a small creative business? People, lots of people! This is what you’d hear in the Cheshire-based office of Coach House Forge, where Amy and Jojo run the day-to-day of the business, while production happens in the forge workshop down the road.

Meet Adrian Smith – Blacksmith

Blacksmith Adrian explains he learned the safety of working with tools from his grandfather right from the get-go, who’s father himself had been a blacksmith in the 1st World War, working alongside the gun carriages to keep them moving.

Meet Chris – Owner of Coach House Forge

Finding archaeological artifacts at the bottom of your garden isn’t an everyday occurrence, let alone that the discovery of them changes the course of your life forever, but this happened for Chris Danby.