Jackson Street Roundhouse
Copper Jewelry Class 2024
Jackson Street Roundhouse 193 Pennsylvania Avenue East, St. Paul, MN, United StatesLocation: Jackson Street Roundhouse blacksmith shop (MN Transportation Museum), 193 Pennsylvania Ave. E., St. Paul, MN 55113 Instructor: Larry Nevin Cost: $65 members; $75 non-members Class size: 8 maximum (18years + ) Class manager: Kim Maas, 651-328-7219 , TGoMvolunteer@gmail.com Description: A Copper Jewelry Class will be held Saturday, February 10,…
TGoM Membership Meeting February 2023
Jackson Street Roundhouse 193 Pennsylvania Avenue East, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThe Wednesday, February 8, 2023, membership meeting will be at the Jackson Street Roundhouse. (193 W. Pennsylvania Ave, St. Paul, MN 55130) For the meeting, we will have blacksmithing and tool sharpening demonstrations in the blacksmith shop. We invite all the members to bring items for show and tell. Please remember items that you have…
Antikythera Mechanism Lecture
Jackson Street Roundhouse 193 Pennsylvania Avenue East, St. Paul, MN, United StatesJoin us for a discussion, slide show, and videos of the historic first model built of the world’s oldest analog computer and orrery, the Antikythera Mechanism. Included will be a brief history of its discovery, explanation of its analysis, description of the functions and features it includes, as well as details on the methods used…
2018 Wire Inlay Class IS FULL!
Jackson Street Roundhouse 193 Pennsylvania Avenue East, St. Paul, MN, United StatesInstructors: Martin Pansch, Stephen Olivo The class will focus on wire inlay into mild steel. This is a technique that can be used to add decorative elements to many of your projects. Students will chase grooves in the metal and then chase the bottoms of the grooves square. The two corners thus created will be…
October 2017 Membership Meeting
Jackson Street Roundhouse 193 Pennsylvania Avenue East, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThe October 11th Guild meeting will be held at the Jackson Street Roundhouse (193 W Pennsylvania Ave, St Paul, MN 55130). For the meeting we will not plan for any demonstrations but invite all our members to bring in pieces of metalwork or other items that they have made or acquired over the years. We…
Clock Theory and the Blacksmith 2016
Jackson Street Roundhouse 193 Pennsylvania Avenue East, St. Paul, MN, United StatesInstructor: Susan Wood This class will include a lecture and images on how clock mechanisms are designed and built, including the influence of the blacksmith in early clocks and tools. We will cover the evolution of escapements from foliot to pendulum to balance wheel. How sources of power influence the mechanism with weights springs fusee…