Blacksmith Workshop in Sunshine Coast

Do you need some custom horseshoes? Do your tools need sharpening or repair? Maybe something more artistic? Sunshine Coast Farrier Services perform a range of blacksmith solutions for a variety of industries. While we work mostly with equine, our skills and leading-edge technology enable us to provide metal forging services for many clients across the region.

While people no longer call upon a blacksmith to make items that are now readily available, a modern blacksmith or farrier can produce custom tools or unique, fine art pieces that cannot be sourced elsewhere. Hand-made versions stand out.

We can work in our Landsborough facility or come to you with our mobile workshop! Should you require farrier services or veterinary referrals, our team can help.

Blacksmithing means heating metal to make it easier to shape using a variety of traditional methods and tools, generally in a small, non-industrial context. As well as making custom horseshoes, Sunshine Coast Farrier Services can sharpen, repair and custom-make tools for a variety of uses. 

Our workshop services also include: 

• Forging: One of the oldest metal forming methods, this is the primary process used for horseshoes. We shape metal by deforming it with a hammer, a press, or rollers.

• Hot bending: Ferrous and non-ferrous metals are heated in a forge to a temperature of about 1,260°. The softened metal is then wrapped around a block of steel in the shape of a shoe or whatever the farrier is creating.

• Heat treatment: The most common heat treatments for metal are hardening and tempering. Steel is "hardened" by heating it to a cherry red and then quenching it in a liquid such as water, salt water or oil. Tempering increases the toughness of iron-based alloys. It is usually performed after hardening, to reduce some of the excess hardness. We heat the metal to a much lower temperature than was used for hardening. The exact temperature determines the amount of hardness removed and depends on both the specific composition of the alloy and on the desired properties in the finished product.

• Fabrication & welding: Fabricators assemble a mostly metal item. We can cut the metal, position it, and then weld - joining two pieces of the same metal with a molten-like metal - to create a finished product like balustrades, wrought iron furniture or gates.