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With nearly all experience in blacksmith shops using traditional
tools and techniques (often without electricity), Kelly is convinced
it is the easiest way to make accurate copies of hardware for
either newly constructed historic
ships or buildings.
Smyth spent five years in a blacksmith’s costume at Colonial
Williamsburg before connecting with shipbuilder Allen C. Rawl
and his Kalmer Nyckel. She’s also participated in the Smithsonian
Folklife Festival and consulted with the Smithsonian to review
hardware recovered from Cleopatra’s Barge. Built
in Salem, Mass., in 1816, it was owned by the king of Hawaii when
it sank in 1824.
Past projects include all the hand forged hardware for the new
version of Discovery (1607) at Jamestown Settlement in
Virginia and the John Smith 400 Shallop, an eighteenth
century topsail schooner, originally constructed in Chestertown
on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Dry land work has included
hardware for the new Print House (1672) at Historic St. Mary’s
City on Maryland’s western shore, both colonial capitols
in the seventeenth century as well as private commissions. |
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Forge welding heavy ship's fittings (Image by Chris Queeney)
18th Century Door Latch
Private Commission, Esssex County VA
Chain Plates for the Discovery, Jamestown Settlement
Kelly does not support a web site at this time. |
