About
Jeremiah Cohn
I am a blacksmith currently studying metallurgical engineering based between my home forge in California and a secondary shop in the lovely state of Missouri.
I got my first taste of blacksmithing when I was dragged at 11 to a summer camp in Oakland CA. After realizing how much I enjoyed it, I went back several times before a neighbor who had been a blacksmith for several decades found out about my passion and offered to teach me in his home forge.
When I turned 18, I hired on with the group that had done the blacksmithing summer camps and became an assistant instructor for my last year of high school.
This continued until I moved to Missouri for university to study metallurgy, and to my delight, my university had a blacksmithing program and club. Since then I've been leading campus activities for blacksmiths and competing in a biennial blade smithing competition at the TMS conference.
Having balanced academics and blacksmithing, I spend much of my time assisting in projects that other university students have. Usually these are only tangentially related to blacksmithing, but when I do get the chance to swing a hammer, you can almost always making some pattern welded steel project way above my comfort level.
Other than blacksmithing I do a lot of project based procrastination. I make chainmaille, blow glass, carve wood, and on the occasion have even done my actual university work.