We had a good meeting out at our home in Mike Nelson’s barn. We practiced making mortice and tenon joints, leafs, box knots, and decorating bolt heads. That was followed by sharing a delicious vat of Gumbo. There’s nothing like washing down donuts & coffee with hot bowl of pork laden goodness. We concluded the day with a well stocked Iron In the Hat.
Thanks to all for participating.
Pork fat rules!
Niagara Region Picnic September 11th. Amherst Museum.
Niagara had a picnic at the Amherst Museum last Sunday September 11th. The forges were up and running and there was a great lunch followed by Iron in the hat. Our President Candice Marten and Hubby and Treasurer Brian showed up to support us, Thanks to both of you. The weather cooperated and we had a great day.
The Genesee meeting will be held this month on the 17th at Mike Nelson’s shop. We will be discussing the upcoming group move! See you there. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Hey guys just got the heads up from Southern Tier about their September meeting. Here is the flyer, they will be working on iron in the hat for the October All-Hands! Please let George know if you’ll be able to attend.
Southern Tier September 2011 (114.0 KiB)
Hi there, I hope you are all enjoying your summer, although it is not much fun hammering away in hundred degree temps! NIAGARA has a great meeting coming up on Sunday August 14th. PLEASE NOTE: THIS MEETING WILL NOT BE AT ANDY CHAMBERS SHOP. Instead we are having a “Hammer-in “ at Paul and Connie Smiths country estate. They have a large barn, so this is a rain or shine event. Bring your portable forges , chairs, wives/Husbands and family and join us for a day of forging in the wilds of Linden. Paul tells me they even have a large, use at your own risk, pond for those who might want to cool down a bit, We will be having soft drinks, hot dogs and hamburgers for lunch. We will be doing some demo’s for your enjoyment and there will be a couple of Niagara’s forges and anvils for those of you who don’t have portable set ups. But bring your own tools if you have them. For those with electric blowers there is power available. There will be an Iron in the hat draw so bring something, preferably hand forged to donate. Looks like this will be a terrific meeting so don’t miss it. See you there. Any questions call me at 905-899-3326. or e-mail, blacksmithpeter@ live.ca ,Peter Parry.
This will be a demonstration and hands on . Bring your favorite hammer
and tongs, safety glasses, and ear plugs. Some tools will be available to
those that do not have them. If you have items to sell there will be a tent
for display hosted by the better halves of some of our members. Also
food will be available for sale.
If you plan to attend and demonstrate something please advise
Henry Offerman, Required by June 10, 2011
Please refer to the flyer for additional information,
Here’s what Niagara is up to, go Al! Thanks for the images Peter.
In February the Southern Tier Group forged spoons to allow them to enjoy their chili! We’ll have to try that next. Good job guys
We had a great turn out (15 people) including several new people. We even made a try at record for a number Richards in one spot! We continued our Controlled Hand Forging series with twisting, bending, forging square corners, and upsetting.
Here are some pictures. See if you can pick out Sleeping Beauty. 
Hey guys, just got the announcement about the Southern Tier Meeting. looks like you’ll have the opportunity to forge a spoon for lunch! Download all the details in this announcement, [filebase:file:file=133:tpl=simple].
