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Self-taught blacksmith forges an age-old career

Bernard Humphreys

BAILEY Copley is a young man about to start an apprenticeship in modern engineering, but he’ll be bringing some ancient knowledge to his new job. The Coomealla 22-year-old is a blacksmith, and plies a craft that is part chemistry and matalurgy, part art and a lot of hard, physical work, in a workplace that’s more […]

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