The Windy Smithy is Jon Snow’s semi-mobile forge and workshop, based on the Blackdown Hills in Devon. Specialising in creating tools for carpenters, outdoor fires, and flue and flashings for people living in small and unusual spaces.

The first incarnation of the Windy Smithy workshop consisted of a forge made from an old gas bottle (with a car blower fan powered by a wind generator), on a muddy drove in north Wales in 1996.

Inspired by the desire to make quality hand tools for low impact and developing communities, Jon went on to study Blacksmithing and Metalwork at Hereford College.

He then developed the highly efficient and incredibly popular Windy Smithy Wood burning stove, making many thousands of them from 1999 to 2021. He decided to halt wood burner production in 2022, but still provides spares, accessories and repairs for his creations.