Biography

My name is Benjamin Albert Czyhold, Christian and working blacksmith. Though much of my early life I lived and worked with my mother, father, sister and brother on our family farm. My grand father and great grandfather also farmed, and knew a measure of the craft as befit their occupation. They then passed on what knowledge they had to my father, and when I took an interest in the skills of a blacksmith he taught me what he learned. I dabbled in the craft up until I received a vocational degree in welding and metal fabrication through my local community collage. In 2007 I started Artificer Forge. Shortly after I sought out teaching blacksmiths, and joined the North West Blacksmith Association. I have since had the honor of learning under 10 master blacksmiths over my time in the craft.