Bill Pevey

Bill Pevey

Crystal Springs, MS

Metal

Blacksmithing

Guild member since 2006

Bill grew up with blacksmith tools around him. His grandfather did metal work and later passed his anvil, leg vise, tongs, and forge to Bill’s father. As a member of the Mississippi Forge Council, he has the opportunity to demonstrate several times a year at the Agricultural and Forestry Museum for people who have never seen a blacksmith at work. “It gives me a great pleasure,” he says, “to tell them the history of blacksmithing while I am making a piece of hardware the way it was made 200 years ago. Working with red hot steel does not give you much time what you are going to do next, so you have to plan ahead to get the desired outcome. I think this is one of the main reasons I am drawn to the fire.”