Mr Walker volunteers monthly at the Wentworth Mine open days in Lucknow.

The Cargo business owner took it on after other blacksmiths in the area turned it down because it wasn’t paid.

“It’s good advertising and people come to see me and I’ve made things for them,” he said.

Now semi-retired, Mr Walker started as an electrician before moving into horse-drawn carriage building.

“I couldn’t get a blacksmith to make some of the things I needed so I went and did the blacksmith’s section of a farrier’s course,” he said.

He took a break from the craft to take up a social work position, but his urge to create couldn’t be quashed.

“There’s machinery that press out things these days but when I make a gate and fashion a ram’s head, that you can’t do,” he said.

“Doing this stuff is art without a paintbrush.”