{"id":1227,"date":"2025-07-29T00:02:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T00:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terhaarforge.com\/?page_id=1227"},"modified":"2025-07-29T03:11:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T03:11:54","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.terhaarforge.com\/?page_id=1227","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"686\" height=\"915\" src=\"https:\/\/www.terhaarforge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image000001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-67\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1;object-fit:cover;width:398px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.terhaarforge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image000001.jpg 686w, https:\/\/www.terhaarforge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image000001-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.terhaarforge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image000001-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 686px) 100vw, 686px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ad2f72ca wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">My name is Riley Terhaar I grew up on a farm in Minnesota where I learned welding and fabrication from my dad. I fell in love with blacksmithing after attending threshing B&#8217;s and fairs that had blacksmithing demonstrations. I convinced my dad to help me convert our old charcoal grill into a forge and the rest, as they say, is history. I took a long break from blacksmithing to get a degree in Aerospace Engineering, but after college I built a propane forge in my back yard and fell in love all over again. I still try to build as much of my own equipment as possible. After moving to Boise, Idaho I decided to leave engineering and pursue blacksmithing as a career. My goal is to make metalwork that is as complex, heavy, and beautiful as the musical genre that shares a name with the material. 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