The Sword Casting Guy, came back to Albuquerque to teach a sold out sword making class in our shop at Pascetti Steel! Greg Wenderski is a metal artist, sword historian, and former science teacher. He travels the country teaching two types of hands-on sword making classes (aluminum and bronze) that offer people of all ages the opportunity to explore themes of archaeology in the process of making a Bronze Age sword.
His classes aim to recreate the key steps in making a Bronze Age sword, while making the process accessible to participants of all skill levels. In the interest of time, these casting technique use modern equivalents to ancient tools, such as substituting propane and a venturi burner for more traditional charcoal and bellows. At each point where his process differs from that of the historical Bronze Age, as he discusses the obstacles our ancestors overcame to accomplish the same task and the ingenious methods they devised to solve them.
At every turn, there are occasions to marvel at the sheer ingenuity of our ancestors as they learned to harness fire and master the art of metallurgy.
