John Huffstutter gets a piece of steel during a recent show he did at Cheney’s Craft Stampede.
John Huffstutter has found a soft place in his heart for hardened steel.
The Cheney-area resident is a blacksmith in his spare time away from his 9-5 job as the budget director for the Community Colleges of Spokane. The 51-year-old first discovered the craft at a very young age he said.
“When I was about five I went to Colonial Williamsburg for the first time, then about 30 years later I went back,” Huffstutter said. “I saw these guys working in the dark with glowing metal and I thought that might be cool to try sometime.”
When Huffstutter’s prior career in the U.S. Air Force moved him to Fair...
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