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Toby Druce

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David Robertson

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Rachel David

James Garvey

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Michael Whipps

Haley Woodward

Colby Brinkman

David Lisch

Peter Braspenninx

Allen Rozon

Heiner Zimmerman

Monica Coyne

Matt Jenkins

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Today is episode # 91 and we’re catchin up with Toby Druce again for the third time in his 15 week artist blacksmith program at Fleming college.  If you recall, Toby Druce made a mid-life career change to become a blacksmith.  He is from the Toronto area in Ontario Canada and has been a social worker with the City of Toronto for the past 29 years.  He decided to change career paths and learn to become a blacksmith by attending the Fleming College Blacksmith Program.   What We Talked About  We talk about his final project and how far along he is with it, the design changed from his earlier thoughts of incorporating a compass rose. Last time we spoke Toby successfully completed his first forge weld so I asked to see how this technique is going for him. There were 15 students in the class with an age range from 17 to 57 years old and one has left the program. Along with the final project, each student will also have to show 8 different completed projects. Toby tells us everything that he has made so far, a garden hat with a ribbon, 3 coat racks, a human  sculpture, some chisels and a nouveau duck. Toby is still looking to apprentice with a local Toronto blacksmith business.    Guest Links  Fleming College Artist blacksmith program - http://flemingcollege.ca/programs/artist-blacksmith/courses  A Big Thank You to today’s sponsor – Fleming College If you enjoyed this episode, I would love it if you would support the show by:  telling your friends. sharing this episode using the social sharing buttons below. subscribing to the show and leaving a rating and review in iTunes.  Not sure how?  Just follow these simple steps here or watch the short video tutorial, http://youtu.be/rq4OCyRGjHc?list=UUH3MfNZLXlKgionAs6kMT_Q subscribing to the show in Stitcher, http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=54499&amp;refid=stpr  Thanks so much for your support!

Today is episode # 91 and we’re catchin up with Toby Druce again for the third time in his 15 week artist blacksmith program at Fleming college.  If you recall, Toby Druce made a mid-life career change to become a blacksmith.  He is from the Toronto area in Ontario Canada and has been a social worker with the City of Toronto for the past 29 years.  He decided to change career paths and learn to become a blacksmith by attending the Fleming College Blacksmith Program.   What We Talked About <ul> <li>We talk about his final project and how far along he is with it, the design changed from his earlier thoughts of incorporating a compass rose.</li> <li>Last time we spoke Toby successfully completed his first forge weld so I asked to see how this technique is going for him.</li> <li>There were 15 students in the class with an age range from 17 to 57 years old and one has left the program.</li> <li>Along with the final project, each student will also have to show 8 different completed projects. Toby tells us everything that he has made so far, a garden hat with a ribbon, 3 coat racks, a human  sculpture, some chisels and a nouveau duck.</li> <li>Toby is still looking to apprentice with a local Toronto blacksmith business.</li> </ul> Guest Links <ul> <li>Fleming College Artist blacksmith program - <a href="http://flemingcollege.ca/programs/artist-blacksmith/courses" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://flemingcollege.ca/programs/artist-blacksmith/courses</a></li> </ul> A Big Thank You to today’s sponsor – <a href="https://flemingcollege.ca/programs/artist-blacksmith" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fleming College</a> If you enjoyed this episode, I would love it if you would support the show by: <ul> <li>telling your friends.</li> <li>sharing this episode using the social sharing buttons below.</li> <li>subscribing to the show and leaving a rating and review in iTunes.  Not sure how?  Just follow these simple steps here or watch the short video tutorial, <a href="http://youtu.be/rq4OCyRGjHc?list=UUH3MfNZLXlKgionAs6kMT_Q" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/rq4OCyRGjHc?list=UUH3MfNZLXlKgionAs6kMT_Q</a></li> <li>subscribing to the show in Stitcher, <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=54499&amp;refid=stpr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=54499&amp;refid=stpr</a></li> </ul> Thanks so much for your support!

Ep #91 – Toby Druce “Mid-life Career Change to Blacksmithing Part 3”

Toby Druce is making a mid-life career change to become a blacksmith.  He is from the Toronto area in Ontario Canada and has been a social worker with the City of Toronto for the past 29 years.  He has decided to change career paths and learn to become a blacksmith by attending the Fleming College Blacksmith Program over the next 15 weeks. Toby and l are doing a 4-part podcast series and this is the 2nd interview, Toby is now 5 weeks into his program. What We Talked About  With five weeks into his blacksmith program, he has obtained an A+ in Drawing and forged some tools; a hot chisel, hardy hot cut, punch, drift, and center punch. He just successfully completed his first forge weld a few days ago for a pair of tongs. There are 15 students in the class with an age range from 17 to 57 years old. Each student has to come up with a design of a final project and forge it by the end of the program, Toby’s is going to be a table and table top and it will be his rendition of a compass rose. Along with the final project, each student will also have to show 8 different completed projects. Toby plans to make a set of repousse tools, a demo of repousse, kitchen utensils, a set of garden tools, and more chisels. Toby is already looking to reach out to a few Toronto blacksmith businesses for an apprenticeship.   Guest Links  Fleming College Artist blacksmith program - http://flemingcollege.ca/programs/artist-blacksmith/courses  A Big Thank You to today’s sponsor – Fleming College Maybe more pictures If you enjoyed this episode, I would love it if you would support the show by:  telling your friends. sharing this episode using the social sharing buttons below. subscribing to the show and leaving a rating and review in iTunes.  Not sure how?  Just follow these simple steps here or watch the short video tutorial, http://youtu.be/rq4OCyRGjHc?list=UUH3MfNZLXlKgionAs6kMT_Q subscribing to the show in Stitcher, http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=54499&amp;refid=stpr  Thanks so much for your support!

Toby Druce is making a mid-life career change to become a blacksmith.  He is from the Toronto area in Ontario Canada and has been a social worker with the City of Toronto for the past 29 years.  He has decided to change career paths and learn to become a blacksmith by attending the Fleming College Blacksmith Program over the next 15 weeks. Toby and l are doing a 4-part podcast series and this is the 2nd interview, Toby is now 5 weeks into his program. What We Talked About <ul> <li>With five weeks into his blacksmith program, he has obtained an A+ in Drawing and forged some tools; a hot chisel, hardy hot cut, punch, drift, and center punch.</li> <li>He just successfully completed his first forge weld a few days ago for a pair of tongs.</li> <li>There are 15 students in the class with an age range from 17 to 57 years old.</li> <li>Each student has to come up with a design of a final project and forge it by the end of the program, Toby’s is going to be a table and table top and it will be his rendition of a compass rose.</li> <li>Along with the final project, each student will also have to show 8 different completed projects. Toby plans to make a set of repousse tools, a demo of repousse, kitchen utensils, a set of garden tools, and more chisels.</li> <li>Toby is already looking to reach out to a few Toronto blacksmith businesses for an apprenticeship.</li> </ul>  Guest Links <ul> <li>Fleming College Artist blacksmith program - <a href="http://flemingcollege.ca/programs/artist-blacksmith/courses" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://flemingcollege.ca/programs/artist-blacksmith/courses</a></li> </ul> A Big Thank You to today’s sponsor – Fleming College Maybe more pictures If you enjoyed this episode, I would love it if you would support the show by: <ul> <li>telling your friends.</li> <li>sharing this episode using the social sharing buttons below.</li> <li>subscribing to the show and leaving a rating and review in iTunes.  Not sure how?  Just follow these simple steps here or watch the short video tutorial, <a href="http://youtu.be/rq4OCyRGjHc?list=UUH3MfNZLXlKgionAs6kMT_Q" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/rq4OCyRGjHc?list=UUH3MfNZLXlKgionAs6kMT_Q</a></li> <li>subscribing to the show in Stitcher, <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=54499&amp;refid=stpr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=54499&amp;refid=stpr</a></li> </ul> Thanks so much for your support!

Episode #86 – Toby Druce “Mid-life Career Change to Blacksmithing Part 2”

Toby Druce is making a mid-life career change to become a blacksmith.  He is from the Toronto area in Ontario Canada and has been a social worker with the City of Toronto for the past 29 years.  He has decided to change career paths and learn to become a blacksmith by attending the Fleming College Blacksmith Program over the next 15 weeks. Toby and I will be doing a 4-part podcast series, 4 interviews while he is going through this transition in life and through the Fleming College Blacksmith Program over the next 15 weeks, starting September 2016, by the time this podcast is released he will have been in the program for one week.  This episode was recorded a week before Toby starts the program, which is in Haliburton, Ontario, and we are talking about why he chose blacksmithing and what he plans to do with it at the end of the program. What We Talked About  Toby Druce has been a social worker and grants administrator for the past 29 years working with municipal homeless and street outreach programs for the City of Toronto, Ontario Canada. Toby was first drawn to blacksmithing when he took a beginner class at a local high school, in their auto body shop. When toby lost his job in 2015 he knew this was a great opportunity to pursue blacksmithing as a career. He looked at blacksmith programs in the UK and Canada and choose the Fleming College blacksmith program through the Haliburton School of Art and Design because of the condensed 15-week program. The courses covered are: Forging Basics, History of Ornamental Ironwork, Drawing, Artistic Blacksmith - Projects I, Design, Marketing/Portfolio Development, and Artistic Blacksmith - Projects II. For Toby, choosing the path to become a blacksmith was not for the monetary gains (which we know can be a very difficult path to financial freedom!) but instead to use his social working skills along with the blacksmith skills to further the work of social working organizations. The program requires 600 hours of shop forge time and for each student to have 8 finished pieces to start your own body of work. The student will then learn how to photograph the eight pieces and professionally create a portfolio to present to a gallery. Toby will be turning 50 in November, in the middle of the program and he couldn’t think of a better way to spend his 50th  Guest Links  Fleming College Artist blacksmith program - http://flemingcollege.ca/programs/artist-blacksmith/courses  A Big Thank You to today’s sponsor – Fleming College If you enjoyed this episode, I would love it if you would support the show by:  telling your friends. sharing this episode using the social sharing buttons below. subscribing to the show and leaving a rating and review in iTunes.  Not sure how?  Just follow these simple steps here or watch the short video tutorial, http://youtu.be/rq4OCyRGjHc?list=UUH3MfNZLXlKgionAs6kMT_Q subscribing to the show in Stitcher, http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=54499&amp;refid=stpr  Thanks so much for your support!

Toby Druce is making a mid-life career change to become a blacksmith.  He is from the Toronto area in Ontario Canada and has been a social worker with the City of Toronto for the past 29 years.  He has decided to change career paths and learn to become a blacksmith by attending the Fleming College Blacksmith Program over the next 15 weeks. Toby and I will be doing a 4-part podcast series, 4 interviews while he is going through this transition in life and through the Fleming College Blacksmith Program over the next 15 weeks, starting September 2016, by the time this podcast is released he will have been in the program for one week.  This episode was recorded a week before Toby starts the program, which is in Haliburton, Ontario, and we are talking about why he chose blacksmithing and what he plans to do with it at the end of the program. What We Talked About <ul> <li>Toby Druce has been a social worker and grants administrator for the past 29 years working with municipal homeless and street outreach programs for the City of Toronto, Ontario Canada.</li> <li>Toby was first drawn to blacksmithing when he took a beginner class at a local high school, in their auto body shop.</li> <li>When toby lost his job in 2015 he knew this was a great opportunity to pursue blacksmithing as a career. He looked at blacksmith programs in the UK and Canada and choose the Fleming College blacksmith program through the Haliburton School of Art and Design because of the condensed 15-week program.</li> <li>The courses covered are: Forging Basics, History of Ornamental Ironwork, Drawing, Artistic Blacksmith - Projects I, Design, Marketing/Portfolio Development, and Artistic Blacksmith - Projects II.</li> <li>For Toby, choosing the path to become a blacksmith was not for the monetary gains (which we know can be a very difficult path to financial freedom!) but instead to use his social working skills along with the blacksmith skills to further the work of social working organizations.</li> <li>The program requires 600 hours of shop forge time and for each student to have 8 finished pieces to start your own body of work. The student will then learn how to photograph the eight pieces and professionally create a portfolio to present to a gallery.</li> <li>Toby will be turning 50 in November, in the middle of the program and he couldn’t think of a better way to spend his 50th</li> </ul> Guest Links <ul> <li>Fleming College Artist blacksmith program - <a href="http://flemingcollege.ca/programs/artist-blacksmith/courses" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://flemingcollege.ca/programs/artist-blacksmith/courses</a></li> </ul> A Big Thank You to today’s sponsor – <a href="http://flemingcollege.ca/programs/artist-blacksmith/courses" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fleming College</a> If you enjoyed this episode, I would love it if you would support the show by: <ul> <li>telling your friends.</li> <li>sharing this episode using the social sharing buttons below.</li> <li>subscribing to the show and leaving a rating and review in iTunes.  Not sure how?  Just follow these simple steps here or watch the short video tutorial, <a href="http://youtu.be/rq4OCyRGjHc?list=UUH3MfNZLXlKgionAs6kMT_Q" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/rq4OCyRGjHc?list=UUH3MfNZLXlKgionAs6kMT_Q</a></li> <li>subscribing to the show in Stitcher, <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=54499&amp;refid=stpr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=54499&amp;refid=stpr</a></li> </ul> Thanks so much for your support!