Blacksmither Radio

Guest Intro paragraph John McLellan is the owner of McLellan Blacksmithing in Loomis, California. He's also the president of the California Blacksmith Association and is serving as co-chair for the 2016 ABANA Conference taking place in Salt Lake City in July. John began his business shoeing horses and now primarily does high-end architectural and interior design metalwork. What We Talked About John's interest in blacksmithing began when he was 8 years old and inherited his grandfather's ranching equipment. He taught himself the trade by reading library books. In the 1970s he joined the California Blacksmith Association. McLellan Blacksmithing opened in 1977 and focused on shoeing horses, a skill John learned in a high school regional occupation program. He took the class for two years and then taught it for five years after graduating. He got into architectural blacksmithing in the mid-1980s, hired several employees and now works almost exclusively designing intricate metalwork for high-end homes. He spends