Alex Blacksmith, Make it at Market, Age, Wife, Partner, Family, Knives

Alex Biography – Alex Wiki

Alex is a blacksmith(Hammer and Hound Forge).He is both a craftsman and an artist with an eye for detail and true skill in historic re enactment. He appears on the first series of Make it at Market on BBC 1.

The items he has crafted for Make it at Market have been superbly functional with a flare for the practical and have a beauty rarely found. It is one thing to have technical skill – which he has in abundance, and his pattern welded work is beyond reproach.

He started his business Hammer and Hound Forge in September 2020 in Blyth, got into blacksmithing after a taster course with Darlington -based Adrian Wood. The pair are filming a second programme for BBC where Alex and another blacksmith from Glasgow are mentored by Wood.

Alex is the resident blacksmith at Killhope Leadmining Museum in County Durham and has been in the Northumbria Viking Re-enactment Society for several years. One of his specialisms is replicating historical Viking artefacts such as swords, knives and horse bridles and his next commission is to make a replica sword for Bamburgh Castle based on the original found in an archaeological dig and dating back to around 850AD.

He also appears in appear in the Sky Arts series ‘The Prince’s Master Crafters: The Next Generation’. The programme aims to spotlight Britain’s rich heritage of traditional crafts.

Alex Age

The blacksmith was born Alex Sowden is from Cramlington, Northumberland.

Alex Make it at Market

Alex is an upcoming entrepreneur who appears on BBC 1 ‘s Make it at Market. The reality television show is hosted by The Repair Shop’s Dominic Chinea.

Blacksmith Alex revealed he was taking part in the BBC 1 show on Instagram writing: “So last year I took part in BBC1’s Make it at Market, alongside @feather_forge and @adrian.wood.311!

“My episode goes out on tuesday at 4.30 pm if youre interested in watching yours truly make some dragons and talk about fancy viking knives 😁 I’ll be posting some stills of my work from the episode once it’s aired and i’m rather proud of what I was able to make 🙂 i hope you will be too.

“It was a massive learning opportunity more than anything else and from it ive developed as a smith in quite a few different ways.”

Alex Instagram

Blacksmith Alex’s Instagram handle is @hammerandhoundforge.