Sable Fox Forge is a shop, a service, and community. Our goal is to provide an outlet for people to appreciate, experience, and experiment with traditional, blue collar, artisan trades.
Timothy started blacksmithing around 2012. He forges steel and copper in his garage shop as a creative outlet and as an opportunity to invite others into the catharsis.
How It Started
Sable Fox Forge is the result of a slow collision of various passions: the innate desire to create, to work with one’s hands, to participate in a strong community, to mentor and be mentored.
It started with Timothy developing his own survival skills, and later expanding into backyard blacksmithing. As a mentor and youth pastor, he started sharing his experience and his projects with some of his students. Then more friends became interested, and Timothy noticed something was happening.
The catalyst came after a couple of difficult, back-to-back conversations with other friends: a police officer who lost a friend in the line of duty, and a former Marine struggling to replace a community of brothers. What began as a personal hobby and mentoring opportunity was quickly becoming a refuge.
The Sable Fox Forge Website
Right now SFF is primarily digital space. We are here to explore the art of trades and craftsmanship that are increasingly neglected or downgraded in our society. We are also here to have real, honest conversations about faith and spirituality, because it’s ridiculous that our culture seems to think “strong” men cannot be “Church” men. (But no, you don’t have to be a “Church” person to be here, either.)
If you are an artisan and would like to share some of your insights/tips/passion-for-your-trade, shoot us an email at SableFoxForge [at] Gmail [dot] com.
The Future of Sable Fox Forge
A lot can happen through a website (and a social media community – check us out on Facebook and Instagram), but this website is only Step 1 in the vision for SFF.
Step 2 is events and training sessions in our community. We’re in the Carpentersville/Dundee, Illinois, area, and we are in the process of pulling together space, experts, and resources so we can bring the SFF man cave to life. We hope to provide opportunities for young men to learn about trades, and for old guys to do man stuff.
We also (especially) want to provide an outlet for servicemen and women, police officers, and firefighters to decompress.
Step 3 is our own space. We have big plans for what we could do with our own Sable Fox Forge space, and we really want to see it happen.
If you would like to get involved or help out in any way, get in touch at SableFoxForge [at] Gmail [dot] com. If you have a skill, a space, an idea, a craft, or are interested in learning more about partnering with our vision, we want to hear from you.
Why “Sable Fox Forge”?
After scrolling through the site, the forge most people thing of is a smithy—the space where a blacksmith does his work. And that’s accurate.
But the word “forge” can also be a verb that means:
- to make or shape
- move forward gradually or steadily
Those are accurate for SFF as well.
In a culture that increasingly neuters and weakens the concept of what it means to be a man, we want to help shape hard-working, integral, confident specimens. We want to move—gradually and/or steadily, as necessary—against the current of our society.
And “Sable Fox”? Have you seen a black fox? They’re cool.
Disclaimer
What about the ladies? Do we hate women? Do we think women are weak and need to stay in the kitchen? No. Shut up. The ladies are welcome.
All of the opinions expressed on this site are purely those of their particular author and don’t necessarily represent our employers, churches, or sometimes even our wives.