Past Events

Instructors: Myron Hanson, Bill (the welder ©) Krawcjeski, Dick Carlson Maximum students: 12 Start as a new person to gas welding or improve your technique and safety with an oxy/acetylene torch. Myron has several teaching stations and, together with Bill the Welder© and Dick Carlson, has produced capable and safe welders for several years now.  Ask anyone who has taken this workshop for their recommendations and comments. Safety gear: requires normal safety gear. (We’ll list that in the acceptance letter).…

Instructors:  Martin Pansch, Larry Wasmund, Rick Wessling, Marty Masters, other exciting guest instructors to be determined later. Maximum students: 8, Minimum 4 Tongs, while deceptively simple looking, contain a lot of considerations in making them. They should fit the work, fit your hand, be long enough but not too long, sturdy enough but not too heavy, and constructed in a way that lasts despite heavy use. This class will look at these factors and more as we learn to make…

Instructor: Jesse Gavin (lead) supported by Dave Gavin, Herb Fick, and others Minimum 6 students; maximum 8 The tools made will be punches with a wire handles and chisels with wire handles. We will use treadle hammers. (Find out if you really need one of these by trying them.) Tools for the treadle hammers will be supplied. Steel will be 5/8 and 3/4 inch round 4140 for the punches and chisels. Handles will be fabricated from ¼ and or 5/16…