JOY of HAMMERING?! Alec Steele

About Alec Steele

Based in Norwich, Alec works in his own forge and posting videos about his daily work of blacksmith.

Alec has passion for blacksmithing started at the age of 11, when he saw the blacksmith hammered on a yellow hot steel.

As he practice and hammering more, the hobby eventually started to take every free moment in his life. If he wasn't studying, he must be hammering at the backyard. Or searching for forging technique online.

As he started entered into high school, his interesting becomes even stronger than before. At the age of 16, he left school and perused for his full-time blacksmith life.

Alec Steele had made variety of weapons, most of them are historically famous. Not just that, the most impressive thing about him is that he always wants to make weapon Damascus. Damascus is a steel formation which is form by forging by many layer of carbon steels. It require a lot of time and energy to do that, and the smith have to keep the temperature not over a thousand degree Celsius. That tells he was just not a skillful blacksmith, but also a passion one.

Oh! Forget to mention that, Alec Steele is his true name.