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Jeremiah Cohn

Hi, my name is Jeremiah.

I'm a metallurgical and explosives engineer on the west coast. Some would argue that those are two wildly different fields, but I'm having a blast.

I got my first taste of blacksmithing when I was dragged at 11 to a summer camp in Oakland CA. After realizing how much I enjoyed it, I went back several times before a neighbor who had been a blacksmith for several decades found out about my passion and offered to teach me in his home forge.

When I turned 18, I hired on with the group that had done the blacksmithing summer camps and became an assistant instructor for my last year of high school.

This continued until I moved to Missouri for university to study metallurgy, and to my delight, my university had a blacksmithing program and club. Since then I've been leading campus activities for blacksmiths and competing in a biennial blade smithing competition at the TMS conference.

Having balanced academics and blacksmithing, I spend much of my time assisting in projects that other university students have. Usually these are only tangentially related to blacksmithing, but when I do get the chance to swing a hammer, you can almost always making some pattern welded steel project way above my comfort level.

I work with a number of materials doing chainmaille, woodworking, glassblowing, metals casting, and plenty of other things that have gotten me set on fire.

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