Bare Metals

Bare Metals 🔥 Bare Metals Forge 🔨
Traveling blacksmiths teaching FREE hands-on forge classes across Arkansas & beyond! Forging memories, not just metal. Hello!

Empowering kids & adults through tradition, craftsmanship, and community. We’re Joe and Amber Hanks, the husband-and-wife team behind Bare Metals Forge — a fully mobile blacksmithing experience. Our traveling forge allows us to share the ancient art of blacksmithing with communities everywhere. We offer free, hands-on forging classes for all ages, giving attendees the unforgettable experience of w

orking with fire, hammer, and anvil. Alongside our interactive classes, we also showcase and sell a variety of handcrafted goods, including:
🔥 Wood-burned signs – Rustic, custom designs perfect for any setting
🔗 Hand-forged copper jewelry – Unique, artisan-crafted keepsakes
👜 Leather works – Beautifully made accessories with timeless craftsmanship

08/23/2026

In true Joe fashion… apparently sleeping at night is optional when you own a forge. 😂🔥

He stayed up AGAIN, taking advantage of the cooler nighttime temperatures and working in the shop. Somewhere in the middle of building himself a little “guillotine” tool, his brain did what Joe's brain does and went, “Yeahhhh… but what if I turn this little sucker into a miniature trip hammer instead?” 🤣

And, well… here we are.

I gotta admit, I think the little guy is pretty dang nifty. 😂 It's basically a tiny mechanical blacksmith with anger issues, and I'm here for it.

Because why simply finish the tool you started when you can get distracted halfway through and INVENT A DIFFERENT DANG TOOL? 🤦‍♀️😂

Bare Metals Forge: where apparently even the tools get turned into other tools. 🔥⚒️

What do y'all think?! Pretty freaking clever or has Joe officially spent too many unsupervised nighttime hours at the forge? 😂

08/22/2026
08/22/2026

Joes got visitors 🥰

As per usual Joe's up to his awesome creativity again!!! We had a custom order for a candy spoon for a fellow vendor and...
06/23/2026

As per usual Joe's up to his awesome creativity again!!! We had a custom order for a candy spoon for a fellow vendor and he knocked it out of the ballpark!!! Anyone interested in a hand forged spoon!?!? Lmk

Come visit us tomorrow!!!! Can't wait to see who wins the knife and see how much we can raise for our first responders!!...
06/13/2026

Come visit us tomorrow!!!! Can't wait to see who wins the knife and see how much we can raise for our first responders!!!

06/10/2026

06/10/2026

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2947 Ar 56 Highway
Calico Rock, AR
72519

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