FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – As visitors stroll around the Johnny Appleseed Festival, John Motz's hammer thuds can be heard from several tents over as he pounds his sheet of metal. Clang, clang clang. "We're out here demonstrating traditional silversmithing, which is what Paul Revere did," Motz said. Motz is a metalsmith who has been to every single Johnny Appleseed Festival since it's inception, 49 years ago. At almost every festival he has been in the Demonstration Area, showing off his trade. Motz said it takes 80 to 90 hours to finish his pieces. The craftsman picked his hobby up from his dad, another metalsmith at the Johnny Appleseed festival, after he suffered an injury which prevented him from demonstrating his art at the event. Motz said although fairgoers want to buy his products, including copper bowls, chalices, even a lobster made out of scrap parts, he took over his father's position to educate the public on traditional craftsmanship that may not stick around forever. Motz has attended every Johnny Appleseed Festival "Fort Wayne was a center of trade back in the pioneer days, and so to bring these dying trades out into the public and show them what it was like, it's really, really important." Fortunately for Motz, he doesn't have to look far for apprentices to educate and mold into masters of his craft. "I'm still passing [metalsmithing] onto nieces and nephews and siblings." The Johnny Appleseed festival runs until Sunday. For more information on other demonstrators, visit the festival's website.