Episode 55 Joshua Vandenhoek.

It's been a hectic couple of weeks that left me on a solo mission for this episode. I think it still works out fairly well, but I'd love to hear feedback on that from the listeners.

Joshua is still somewhat new to the game but he has ambition and goals! He has been working hard to get his shop and business in order to start producing product as well as to start hosting classes. Its a very nice shop space to allow for that and being located in Sterling Alberta he is in the heart of cattle country. The perfect place for a blacksmith to call home. After spending time working with Shaun Cunningham of @frontstepforge through the @NAIT programs Joshua very quickly became engrained to the lifestyle of a blacksmith. We toss around a few things he's learnt on his journey as well as a couple of the things he plans to work towards. Hope you all find this episode to be another great source of info, education and entertainment.

We drop a lot of names in this episode and I may have missed some on this post. I'll be honest, that's a ton of work and if there is anyone out there that wants to work with me on proofing the edit so the names can be jotted down for the post I would love to hear from you.

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