Yes, colonial blacksmiths often had apprentices who would learn the trade by working closely with the skilled blacksmith. The apprentice would assist with tasks, learn techniques, and eventually become a journeyman blacksmith before potentially becoming a master blacksmith themselves.
To become a Master Blacksmith you would might serve as a laborer at the beck and call of everyone. Then as apprentice, under one or two masters. Then as a journeyman traveling about working with different masters to learn different ways of doing things then as a master yourself.
Alvin Journeyman was created in 1995.
The Journeyman Project was created in 1992.
The Journeyman Project happened in 1992.
You became a blacksmith by apprenticing to the trade which means going and living with a master smith and and learning from him or her. For a period of several years you worked for all intents for free. At some point the mastersmith would decide if you were worthy of training or decide that you were unfit for the trade. If the mastersmith judged you as worthy you would then learn from them the basic skills need to become a journeyman. When the mastersmith decided you ready you would make a test piece for for the mastersmith to judge. If approved by the mastersmith then the test piece would be judged by the a guild. If the guild approved the test piece you became a journeyman. As a journeyman you were expected to travel the land and learn from any mastersmith you could. When you felt you were ready you then made another test piece for the guild and if approved by the guild. You were raise to the level of mastersmith. at which point you could set up shop train apprentices and start the cycle again. the whole process could take as much as 15 years or more. where blacksmiths were in short supply the whole thing could be shortened to a few years.
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Traditionally it would take 10 or more years to become a Master Blacksmith. Most apprenticeships were for a four year period. Then you took pieces of your work before a group of Master Blacksmiths ( the Blacksmith Guild) and if they judged your pieces worthy and you knowledge sufficient you became a journeyman. . Journeyman as the name implies means that you traveled around the country learning from other Blacksmiths. After a period of two to five years you then took pieces again before the Guild for judging and more questioning. If they judged you ready then you were then deemed a Blacksmith. After a period of of running your own shop or working for a large firm you then could apply to the guild to become a Master Blacksmith. The guild might specify a project for you to build or require the manufacture of a specific item to be judged If your piece was of sufficient quality and your knowledge base strong enough you were then deemed a Master Blacksmith.
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The Journeyman Project - series - happened in 1999.
An apprentice becomes a journeyman, and a journeyman becomes a master.