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December 2011
Poz Tongs Class
Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011 $40 per student Class size: minimum 5, maximum 8 Prerequisites: Beginning Blacksmithing class required Instructors: Darryl Ponder, Gordon Barr, Rich Herman What to bring: Your favorite hammer, ear and eye protection. All other tools & materials provided. You are warmly invited to spend a December Saturday learning how to make a pair of "Poz" style tongs while gathered around the heat of the coal forges at the MN School of Horseshoeing! These tongs, originally designed by a…
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February Membership Meeting
Oxygen Service Company at 1111 Pierce Butler Route, St. Paul, MN, 55104, will host the February 8 Guild membership meeting. They are an employee owned welding supply company and will offer a safety presentation/oxyfuel seminar by welding instructor Pam Lesemann. There will also be a plasma cutting demo and if time permits, a wirefeed demo with the opportunity for members to actually try out the equipment. The retail store will also be open. They didn’t specifically mention any ‘deals’ that…
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Forging a Beaver Trap-Part I-class cancelled!
This is a two-part workshop. Part One is Saturday, March 31. Part Two is Saturday, April 28. Maximum class size is 8. Minimum class size is 6. Instructors: Tom Sanders and Martin Pansch Class description: The double spring beaver trap was one of the staples of the fur trade. While the traps themselves are not as popular nowadays, they are still an excellent exercise in a number of blacksmith skills. Students will be expected to be able to slit, split,…
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April 11 Membership Meeting
April 11 TGoM meeting to highlight discoveries of blacksmithing significance at recent Fort Snelling dig The April 11 membership meeting will be a presentation by Tom Sanders, a Guild member, who was instrumental in developing the interpretive program at the Historic Fort Snelling blacksmith shop. In the 1970s an archeological dig was done, and many artifacts were discovered in the blacksmith's shop area. Tom was then part of the five-year project to analyze what was found and begin to tell…
Find out more »Northern Minnesota Metalsmiths Conference
This annual spring conference sponsored by the Northern Minnesota Metalsmiths is being held on the LIRPF Steam Show grounds 27 miles north of Park Rapids, MN. Contact Keith Johnson for details and registration information. Details here: http://www.nmmetalsmiths.org/main.html
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