Talk about non-traditional careers – it wasn’t enough for Lisa Huth to
take a production job with a steel fabricator when she left school, she
had to go the whole nine yards and get her welding tickets (C and B)
from Okanagan College. That’s when things got really interesting.
Another student told her about a Vernon blacksmith, Joe Delisimunivic,
who offered to let her spend a day giving it a try.
“I loved it right away – it was amazing,” says Lisa, watchfully rotating an iron rod in the glowing embers of the coal forge in her Joe Rich workshop near Kelowna. “I’d been working with metal for four years but I had no idea you could do the things a blacksmith can do. When Joe showed the way the metal could be bent, twisted and formed into shapes, I was in awe.”
