Tessa WittmanThe Wedge Building
Asheville, NC
BEFORE: Sound Engineer, Goatherd
AFTER:Blacksmith
Tessa Wittman worked as a sound engineer in the cool Minneapolis area before heading way west to Maui, Hawaii. After a stint as a bit of a beach bum, she began working on a goat farm doing everything from soup to nuts and become quite fond of the little beasties.  Click for Profile Video |  Click for Tessa's Theory on Forging Metal But the grass doesn't grow under Tessa's feet and soon she was heading east again; this time she landed in Penland, NC where she studied Blacksmithing at the Penland School of Craft; one of the few places in the country where you can actually learn to be a competent blacksmith.Tessa has since opened up shop in the fashionable Wedge building in Asheville, NC. She sculpts metal. If she needs a tool (like, perhaps, a new forge), she makes it. She's taking a liking to creating Damascus cleavers and knives which are almost too beautiful to use. |
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