Drunken Smithy

For Valentines Day and my Birthday we traveled to Lebanon, PA and visited a great little Mall where Drunken Smithy is. There we attended a workshop where we got to forge our own knives!

Drunken Smithy workshop

The Lebanon Valley Mall is one of many struggling malls that the community is trying to revitalize, and the Drunken Smithy is a great reason to go there. The people there are incredibly welcoming and nice. The Smithy itself sells forged items like swords and axes, and also has axe throwing which is a lot of fun! Recently they even opened a mead hall where you can sit and enjoy some mead (or another beverage) and relax in the cozy hall. What we did there mostly was one of the many workshops they have, you can forge something or do some copper working. We did forging and decided to forge knives we can use for cooking.

Hand forged knives

The workshop was great, it was about 4 hours and they help you every step of the way. You get to choose what you forge from a variety of metals and either knives or axes, I’m usually an axe girl but we decided to make functional knives that we could use for cooking. We even stopped to have lunch and cooked sausages in the forge! The people teaching where fun and knowledgeable, it was a great experience!