Boyd Blacksmithing News Today

FLORA — The annual Flora School Days will be virtual this year, held Tuesday, June 1, through Saturday, June 5, online at www.floraschool.org.

Recently, Boyd showed the knives he makes at the Holiday Bazaar at the Joseph Community Center. “I started out with knives. They’re my bread and butter,” he said last week. “But I do a lot of actual blacksmithing work, making blacksmithing tools and decorative hooks, bottle openers, horseshoes, gates and all sorts of metalwork.” The 19-year-old has been operating his business for about two years out of a shop at the home of his parents, Rick and Robin Boyd, in Lostine. ...