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The Company We Keep

Dear Reader,
This blog is now an archive. John Abrams (Founder of South Mountain, author of this blog, and a book of the same name) retired on December 31, 2022. All posts published up until this date are preserved below.

For updates on John's next chapter, visit abramsangell.com.

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Elijah Cornell

Aaron’s Hand Forged Summer

November 19, 2013 by John Abrams 2 Comments

Our youngest project lead and Owner, Aaron Beck, is a very good carpenter (and manager too).  He carves duck decoys with great skill.  But his passion – these days – is metal.  Aaron loves blacksmithing.  Last year he spent a week in Mississippi living in a backwoods trailer and learning from an accomplished blacksmith there.

This spring he came to us and said he had a great opportunity:  a well-known blacksmith in Montana, Jeffrey Funk, had agreed to take him on for a three month internship.  He asked if he could take a sabbatical.  We said yes.   He needed to finish a house he was working on by the end of June; then he could take off for three months.

Part of Aaron’s interest – and part of our interest in his interest – is the idea of setting up a blacksmith shop at SMCo to complement our woodwork and enhance our architecture.  Might this happen?  We don’t know, but it’s a topic of some consideration these days.

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Filed Under: Design, South Mountain Company Tagged With: Big Timberworks, Bigforks, Elijah Cornell, Flathead Lake, Glacier National Park, Jake Jacob, Jeffrey Funk, Merle Adams, Port Townshend, South Mountain Company

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