WORKSHOP NEWS

Article in Blue Ridge Country Magazine - Nov/Dec 2020 issue

Article titled:  Kevin Riddle Keeps the 1600's Alive"

Last winter and spring. I did a re-tinning and repair fabrication job for Historic Jamestown living History museum - the largest pot were 10 gallon size.  They had numerous reproduction copper pots and pans, from their living history equipment, that needed the tin lining to be reworked, and some that needed iron (steel) bails and ears fabricated, too.  Re-tinning needs to be done every 5 to 10 years to a pot that is regularly used.

These pots are used in the Living history's outdoor park where visitors can watch re-inactors portray everyday life in America's first permanent English settlement.  These reproduction pots (they keep the originals behind glass) had come from a variety of makers, including some that I had made about 15 years ago, when I was working for the old coppersmith that I had learned from. 
A writer for Blue Ridge Country heard about my job, came by to look, and did a story about it.

If you go to Historic Jamestown and see them, please let me know how they look.
Their web site is HistoricJamestowne.org