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Thanks to Bob Corneck for the photo of his sign.
Our Last Visit to the Stone Mill Museum
Please join us on August 20-22, 2010 at the Stone Mills Museum in LaFargeville, NY.
John Fee has been kind enough to arrange this and has confirmed with the museum and they are not only excited to have us but are looking forward to it. They said we could show up on Thursday if we like.
Ken Schwartz will be in the area with his daughters , and has offered to do a demonstration for us, if all works out okay! So be sure not to miss this!
There will be a pot luck dinner on Friday night , so bring a dish to pass (hopefully with something in it), this is for every one there, the museum folks, the car and tractor dude’s and dudette’s and us. Should be a good time.
Saturday “night” we will be doin the blacksmith stoup (stew/soup) .
(You will be on your own for lunch.) This time instead of everyone bringing meat-n-veggies , John Fee will buy all the meat (when it goes on sale) and take up a collection to pay for it. Locally grown veggies will be used to fill the rest of the pot.
Also we will have one Iron in the hat on Sat. So bring something nice (NO JUNK) for that. We will alow the civilians to buy tickets for the IITH too and raise a little extra money for NYSDB.
Bring your forges and anvils to demo for us and the nuts, I mean the “local” folks 
See ya there…
The contact info for the Stone Mills Farm Museum is:
Mrs. Margarite Raneri
PO Box 108
34312 Route 180L
LaFargeville NY 13656
315-658-2353
http://users.westelcom.com/stonemillsmuseum
The Niagara Region is offering a class by Mark Aspery June 20-23. The focus will be on a Ring Project, the whole enchilada. Limited to ten attendees, only one spot left! Please see the attached files for more information.
Hey all!
Since a few members came to me with problems viewing the previous layout because of the color constrasts I have updated the scheme and added a text size adjuster to facilitate use.
You will notice a couple minor changes with this new layout. First the “log in” is now in the header above the menu. Secondly, the upcoming events in the sidebar are not linking correctly. So while I work out this bug please use the Current Events link in the menu to access upcoming events calendar.
Thanks!
-c
Come join us again at the Genesee Country Village Museum.
We have been invited back for another father’s day special! We will be there June 20th, 2010. Bring your forge and tools and have fun!
Special thanks to Kim Thomas for his wonderful demonstration this weekend. We had a exciting meeting with great attendance. Here are some photos.
Members please log in and add yours to the gallery!
Hey All! Are you excited about this weekend?!?
We were up at Dave’s Shop today adding the new chimney for his coal forge. It turned out well, check out these photos of all the hard work done.
Special thanks to Bob Trout, John Rausch, and Mike Houser for all they did today!
I have finished my grinder with several changes.
I have prints for this grinder if anyone is interested.
Hi All!
It’s that time again, the time to volunteer your services to the group.
After years of service Harry Heuer will be stepping down from the treasurer’s position. We want to offer many thanks to Harry for his service. We would also like to fill the vice president’s position to allow Mike to focus on the newsletter.
If you are interested in helping out or just have questions please let me, Candace Martens, or Keith Price know.
Well the day is drawing closer and I did promise more info so…
May 2010 All-Hands (186)Here is the meeting flier and registration form. It contains details on the meet, info about Kim Thomas, and a registration form. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Hi all,
Just thought I would add a bit of info about the proposed spoon project. For those who haven’t seen the newsletter, as a way to increase cross state communication and participation I proposed a small project competition.
“… to facilitate some friendly regional competitions. The first one I am proposing will be a spoon. All members are encouraged to provide an entry. You can be as elaborate or simple as you would like the only requirement is that you begin with a piece of material roughly ¼” by 8”. Further details will be available on the website along with a gallery for posting your entries and voting.” (from the newsletter)
Since we have had a couple request for further details I offer the following. My original intent was to allow members to use any stock they had on hand but that left it too wide open so I picked a thickness and a length, 1/4″ x 8″. You can use any width you would like but probably 1/4″ to 1″ would be best just depends on how large a spoon you would like to make and how detailed or fun.
First spoon, after forging and after started filing
I did try my hand at a spoon at our past meeting but I didn’t have any 1/4″ stock so I used a piece of 3/8″ square. Since it was a bit bigger I stretched it to give me a nice curvy handle. This is not my entry, I’ll do one within the guidelines but I wanted to give it a try and as a beginning smith it was fun to explore all the challenges such a seemingly simple project presented, of course as a newer smith every project seems fraught with fun and interesting … learning experiences.
Anyway, this is my first attempt at a spoon made of something besides a horseshoe nail. The left photos are after forging and the right shows it after I started filing to give it a pretty finish and hide some mistakes. It isn’t quite what was in my head when I started but it was enjoyable to play with.
Please jump on the forum to let me know if you’ve tried one or any other thoughts on it!
Thanks!
