may june 2007 - bgop - blacksmiths' guild of the potomac

the Newsletter of the Blacksmiths’ Guild of the Potomac

An affiliate of ABANA: Artist-Blacksmith’s Association of North America May/June 2007 Vol. XXIX No. 3

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May/June 2007 Blacksmith Guild of the Potomac 2

The Blacksmiths' Guild of the Potomac, Inc.

President *Keith Kuck (2007) 5310 Nutting Dr. Springfield, Va. 22151 703-321-8109 Vice President (& Shop Master) *Phil Heath (2008) 4600 S Four Mile Run Dr Arlington VA 22204 703-671-3134 Treasurer *George Anderton (2009) 5325 Ringold Place Springfield VA 22151 703-321-9737 Secretary *Mike Briskin (2008) 1556 N Bryan St Arlington VA 22201 703-524-2362 Shop Master *Phil Heath (2008) 4600 s four Mile Run Dr Arlington VA 22204 703-671-3134

2006 Officers & Board of Directors

Board Members Fred (Hop) Long (2009) 5309 Bangor Drive Kensington MD 20895-1106 301-942-6177 Pat McGuire (2008) 1102 Shannon Pl Herndon VA 20170-3506 703-437-9034 David Murphy (2009) 7910 Woodrow Pl Cabin John MD 20818-1638 301-229-5794 Richard Smith (2007) 116 South Adams St Rockville MD 20850 301-309-2289 Bill Wojcik (2007) 4116 Kingchase Lane The Plains VA 20198 540-253-5121 * Member of the Executive Committee

Shop Rules And Etiquette

The Guild shop is available for use by members in good standing whenever the Nature Center park is open. The shop is locked, so call the shopmaster or a board member for access. Follow all safety rules. Record the number of visitors on the log sheet near door. Please observe the following rules and etiquette: ♦ Bring safety glasses and wear them. Work in a safe manner at

all times. ♦ Clean the shop before and after you work.

♦ Empty firepots and dump ash gate after each use to minimize corrosion.

♦ Dump cold ashes in the ash dump outside, at the side of the shop.

♦ Place tools back in their proper places.

♦ Dress bar ends which you have cut, to be ready for the next user.

♦ Clean the shop before you leave, and carry out trash which you create.

♦ Always turn out the lights and lock up when leaving.

♦ Bring your own material for personal projects. Shop stock is for learning and practice.

♦ No alcoholic beverages on park property.

BGOP Meetings Guild meetings are held on the first and third Fridays of each month t 7:30 P.M. at the Gulf Branch Nature Center, 3608 North Military Road, Arlington VA 22207. Meetings are usually held in the Guild’s shop which is located about 50 yards past the Nature Center building on the wooded path. Occasional Friday meetings with a speaker or video are held in the Nature Center auditorium. Call the HOTLINE 703-527-0409 for updates on meetings and event.

The Newsletter is mailed to members six times a year, Intial membership is $35 or three years for $75. Renewals are $25 for one year or $70 for three years. Membership applications and renewals may be sent to Fred Long, 5309 Bangor Dr. Kensington Md 20895-1106. Check payable to BGOP.

ABANA affiliates may reprint portions that are not individually copyrighted, so long as credit is given to original source. Any other publication by prior arrangement with president of BGOP. The Blacksmiths’ Guild of the Potomac, Inc, its officers, members, and editorial staff specifically disclaim any responsibility for damages or injuries that occur as a result of the use in any way of any information contained in this newsletter. Send articles to [email protected]. ©2006 Blacksmiths’ Guild of the Potomac, Inc., and as copyrighted by individual contributors.

Committees & Assignments

10 Yr Plan ……...Dave Murphy, Chair.…301-229-5794

Corporation…….Fay LeCompte, Chair…540-743-1812

Scholarships…...Fay LeCompte, Chair…540-743-1812

Demonstrations…..Jan Kochansky……...301-432-7734

Meeting Raffle…….Tom Coker…………...301-942-8573

Hotline……………….Charlie Perticari……………..301-982-9430

Library……………….Steve Crist……………….703-754-9678

Membership………..Fred (Hop)Long……….301-942-6177

Newsletter/Guest Editor. Katie Dunn………..703-435-4254

Scholarship Applications Scholarship applications are available on the web at www.bgop.org. Completed forms should be sent to Fay LeCompte III, 1016A East Main Street, Luray, Va.


CONTENTS 3 - Summer Classes / Upcoming Events 4 - Tips from the Shop Master 4- Discovery Channel comes to the shop 6 - Plans for the Whitaker annex 8 - A look at holes 10- Spring Fling 12 - George Dixons presentation 14 - Clay Smith’s presentation 15 - Show & Tell 16 - Blacksmithing fundamentals review 17- Finials 22- BGOP Roster

UPCOMING EVENTS

SUMMER CLASSES

Touchstone Center for Crafts southwestern PA www.touchstonecrafts.com (please see their site for corrections to the schedule previously listed here) Penland School of Crafts northwestern NC www.penland.org

John C. Campbell Folk School southwestern NC www.folkschool.com

Peters Valley northwestern NJ www.pvcrafts.org

Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts eastern Tennessee www.arrowmont.org

Haystack Mountain School of Crafts Maine www.haystack-mtn.org

New England School of Metalwork Maine www.newenglandschoolofmetalwork.com

Bill Pieh Resource for Metalwork Arizona http://www.horseshoes.com/supplies/alphabet/piehtoolco/linksandresources/workshops/billpiehworkshop.htm

July 5-8, 2007 Tuckahoe Steam Show 5 miles north of Easton MD on the eastern shore includes blacksmithing demos, flea market, antiques and tool sales www.tuckahoesteam.org July 14, 2007 Open Forge at Gulf Branch Nature Center noon – 4pm. . July 27-29, 2007 Berryville steam show The Shenandoah Valley Steam & Gas Engine Association Show Ruritan Fairgrounds Berryville, Virginia (near Winchester) includes blacksmithing demos and flea market www.svsgea.com/ August 4-5, 2007 4-H Fair and Frying Pan Park Farm Show 9am-5pm at Frying Pan Park 2709 West Ox Road, Herndon VA 703-437-9101 www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/fpp/index.htm August 10-18, 2007 Montgomery County Agricultural Fair : Montgomery County Fair-grounds, Gaithersburg, MD Blacksmithing demos, livestock, rides, etc, etc. www.mcagfair.com/fair.htm September 8, 2007 - MASA fall conference Held at the Tuckahoe Steam Association grounds in Easton, MD. September 15, 2007 Frontier Culture Museum Hammer-In Staunton, Virginia 9am-5pm, 540-332-7850 www.frontier.virginia.gov September 21-23, 2007 SOFA Quad-State Conference Southern Ohio Forge Association Demos, tailgating, etc. held in Troy, Ohio (near Dayton) at the Miami Fairgrounds http://sofablacksmiths.org/conference2006.html

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June 27-July 1 and July 4-8, 2007 Smithsonian Folk-life Festival on the Mall in Washington, DC will include two smiths this year www.folklife.si.edu/index.html


Meeting Schedule June 29 Board Meeting July 5 Barbeque and Swap Night The rest are TBD and will be listed in the next issue

President’s Message Well summer has arrived and so have

all the demos. I have been told that there will be at least one Blacksmith at the Folklife Festi-val on the Mall in Washington, DC. Once again the Guild is helping out by providing loaner equipment to the Folklife Festival and putting the organizers in touch with the source for coke that Ken Zastrow found for them in 2001.

We have established the open houses for the Nature Center and they are as follows; October 13, 2007 Pioneer Days 1pm-5pm (yes that is the same day as the Building Museum demo so we will need to split our resources) January 12, 2008 12-4pm April 5, 2008 12-4 pm July 12, 2008 12-4pm

I am glad we are still getting feedback from Spring Fling. I have received both e-mail and letters providing feedback, and if you have comments please pass them to me. Yes, I will take the good and the bad. We are trying to make this a great event but in order to know what is right and what went wrong we need your feedback.

I want to remind everyone as we go into the summer doing demonstrations for the public, that we remember to be careful and watch out for the little ones. They are the most interested and most inquisitive and it is often necessary to take extra steps to protect them from getting hurt. That is the future of black-smithing looking at you and that you are look-ing at! It is that first memory that is set in their mind at a very young age, which may someday turn them on to blacksmithing. So let’s be careful out there and remember shop safety and wear those safety glasses. Keith E. Kuck

TIPS FROM OUR FORGE MASTER

The Day the Discovery Chan-nel came to the shop.

By George Anderton On June 1, 2007 Keith Kuck and I ,George Ander-ton, were supposed to be at the Guild shop at 12 noon to help a Discovery Channel film crew shoot some footage for one of their shows. When I got there they were already setting up in the shop to start shooting some scenes. It turns out that what we were there to help with was some filler material that was going into a show about the science behind everyday things. I this case the thing was a knife. Specifi-cally, it was a sushi chef’s knife that was made in Japan some time before. This was not your run of the mill knife either. They said that it had been made by a master knife maker. And that in the typical Japanese method, the cutting edge had been forged welded onto mild steel in making the knife. The knife had cost them $1,500 and you could tell this by how carefully they treated it during the shooting.

Our job was to stand in the background and operate the two coal forges. (And incase you were wonder-

When fitting a new handle put a smear of silicon a round the inside of the eye, this helps the handle slide in and holds firm. I fit the wedge dry.


ing, yes we had to sign a release.) We had to heat the steel when ever it was needed for the scene. The director and the camera guy also liked the flames in the background. So even when there was no actual heating going on we still had to crank the blowers and keep the fire up. The sound guy was even recording the blower sound as background noise. Both Keith and I had been wired for sound.

The first thing that the host of the show did was show how hardened steel was very brittle. He put two pieces if steel in the vice and attempted to bend them. Starting with the tool steel rod, in this case a piece of 1095, which had previously been heated past critical and quenched in water. It immediately snapped off. He then followed with trying to do the same thing with a piece of mild steel which of course just bent. That went fairly fast. One break and one bend. But they weren’t sure so we repeated the shot at least 8 times. The next shot I remember was one that may be the starter for the segment of the show on the knife or maybe even for the whole episode. In this shot the host took a piece of hot steel out of the fire and addressed the camera with a few lines about his studying the science behind eve-

ryday things for most of his career. They made a big deal about how the hot metal lit up his face. Another 8 to 10 takes on this shot and we were able to move on to the next scene. In this scene we are treated to a visual on quenching steel. They did this in a way that was actually very informative. A 20 gallon fish tank was set up in front of the smaller Fisher anvil and filled with water. Then the camera was set up in front of the fish tank. There was a lot of work that went on getting the light just right. I had no idea they went to so much trou-ble. Any way next we heated up a piece of leaf spring and allowed the host to take it from the fire and stick it in the fish tank. The piece of steel was about 6 inches long, 3/8 inch thick and about 2 ½ inches wide. No effort was made to move the steel around to cool it any quicker; as a result you could see the scale popping off the surface while the water bubbled and the color in the metal changed from the edges to the center. I thought this was a unique way to see what was happening. You could clearly see what was happening from the side instead of looking down through the bubbles like we would nor-mally do in a bucket. After about 10 takes on this scene the steel, an oil hardening type, started to really show the effects of being quenched and reheated several times. Cracks started to appear in the steel. What was inter-esting here was that most of the cracks appeared to have formed in an oval pattern around the center of the bar. After that scene the next one involved the for-mation of rust. The host had several pieces of steel he had prepared before. I think he was trying to show the formation of rust and how quickly it could appear. Keith and I had moved outside since we were no longer needed to run the forges. I was getting a little tired. We had been at it at that point for about 6 and half hours. It was another hour before they were all cleaned up and out of the shop. Seven hours for what will most likely be 3 or 4 minutes when the show airs in November of this year.

The Sound Guy


PLANS FOR THE

WHITAKER ANNEX Brasstown, NC. May, 2007 By: Paul Garrett The John C. Campbell Folk School is proud to announce plans for an annex for the historic Francis Whitaker Blacksmith Shop. The old milking barn that is now the blacksmith studio at the school will have a new neighbor in 2008 when timber framers from all over gather at the school for an old fash-ioned barn raising. The school has known for sometime that the blacksmithing program would eventually outgrow the Francis Whitaker shop - dedicated to Francis in 1993 in recognition of his two decades of teaching and demonstrating at the school, but knew that there had to be a way to expand without losing the existing structure which symbolizes the legacy of the “Dean of American Blacksmiths,” who devoted his life to keeping the art of blacksmithing alive in this coun-try. The solution came in part with an offer from the International Timber Framers Guild, and member Charles Judd, a professional timber framer who teaches at the Folk School where together, his classes have built several small structures on the campus. Charles seeing the need for the expansion as well, made the relationship between the Guild and the Folk School possible. He wanted to see a larger tim-ber framed building done on the campus, one that would be a legacy for the school and to the crafts-people that made it. A few years in the making, the plan calls for a Guild rendezvous at the site in June 2008, when close to 80 timber framers will do a tra-ditional barn-raising similar to those seen in Amish country. In preparation for the event, the Folk School will host Guild classes where all the timbers will be cut, pre-assembled, and staged on the build-ing site. The frame will then be stood up in sections known as “bents” with levers, ropes, pike poles, and plain old human effort. An agreement was made between the two parties in a December meeting at the school that included Charles, Guild president Joel McCarty, School Di-rector Jan Davidson, resident blacksmith Paul Garrett, and architect Don Ihrig. The timing was per-fect, and the school was grateful for the offer from the Guild that only does a limited number of these

events, and only for not-for-profit organizations like the JCCFS. The existing shop is functional, but there is a definite need spread out a bit for comfort and safety sake, give students more room for larger pro-jects, and accommodate some of the areas that we currently cannot. The new addition will be located right behind the existing shop and will be connected via a short vesti-bule. The design will include a clerestory roofline housing an air conditioned classroom that will allow natural light to pass through into the spaces below, and have full handicap accessibility. The two exist-ing silos will frame a beautiful timbered entrance gable and house full restrooms and some storage. There will be a room for the school’s growing library of books and publications, a center for technical, safety, and design information, and resources to aid students in finding organizations, other smiths in their areas and help in locating scholarships. The size of the new building is tentatively at about 2,500 square feet. The old shop will receive extensive renovations to reverse decades of wear and damage, and will be brought up to modern standards of comfort while retaining its’ historic charm. It will be completely re-wired, re-plumbed, fitted with a sprinkler system, have improved ventilation and energy efficient win-dows. The plan will open up more room, and provide the space and equipment to accommodate an increas-ing variety of classes. At the same time, the Folk School is committed to respecting the values of tradi-tional blacksmithing that have made the program the most popular of some 50 program areas offered, and have helped spur the tremendous growth in smithing across the country as well. The project will most likely be accomplished in three main phases, the raising of the timber frame and roof, the finishing and occupying of the annex, and the subsequent renovation of the Francis Whitaker building. Fundraising for the project officially began when longtime instructor Lou Mueller donated his hono-rarium for the class that he taught here last fall plus extra to make it an even $1000. Clay Spencer, na-tionally known blacksmith and fixture at the school also donated $1000. Not to be outdone, Don Neuen-schwander, a long time student and friend of the Folk School from Indiana, donated $5000! Donations have begun to come in as word of the new project gets out. In 1925 a small rural community of individuals came together and offered whatever they could af-


ford to build the Folk School. Today, more than 80 years later, the Blacksmithing community gathers in the same spirit. It is strong, and encompasses not only western North Carolina, but the entire country and beyond. It is resourceful, creative, and like the Folk School, dedicated to the spread of knowledge and education of blacksmithing. Already, there are groups across the country planning fundraisers and auctions to help out with the effort. Any ideas or sources that you know of to help out with donations and publicity will be greatly welcomed. Together our community can see that this goal is achieved. Although the full architectural plans are not yet finalized, early estimates for the amount of capital needed to realize this project are at $500,000. We have a long way to go but have confidence that the school, which has had a positive effect on so many lives, will be able to raise the amount needed to en-sure the program’s health well into the new century. Donations are currently being accepted and are held in a restricted, interest-bearing fund set up specifi-cally for the project. No amount is too large or too small, and can include gifts of cash, stock, or materi-als. The Folk School is a 501(c) (3) organization, so all contributions are tax-deductible. Donations of $500 or more will be recognized with a plaque in the new building, and opportunities to name the new spaces will be developed as soon as plans are final-ized. Please contact Susi Hall, Development Manager, at [email protected] or at 828-837-2775 ext.118 to contribute or to discuss making a gift and by all means contact me at [email protected], or 828-835-8441 with ideas to assist with the project. Thanks, and happy forging. Paul Garrett Resident Artist for the Blacksmithing Program [email protected] or at 828-837-2775 ext.118 to contribute or to discuss making a gift and by all means contact me at [email protected], or 828-835-8441 with ideas to assist with the project. Thanks, and happy forging. Paul Garrett Resident Artist for the Blacksmithing Program

A Call to Artist-Blacksmiths

"All About Metal" is a gallery show for metal artists of all types. Traditionalists, sculpturalists, jewelers or any other artistic metal workers. Metal Work on the scale of LARGE sculptural on down to the smallest of forgings or castings will be considered for the show.

July 6th thru Aug 12th at the Ice House in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia.

I am curating this show and am looking for artists of all skill levels, this is a fun show and the weekend after the gallery opening I am scheduling a hammer-in that is open to the public. Demo if you can, sell your wares if you want or just come to have a good time. I'll be dem-onstrating on and off all day.

The gallery show and hammer-in are separate events yet tied together, however you don't have to do both to be accepted. Do one or the other or both.

Please download a copy of the Invite with details from Frog Valley.com.

http://www.frogvalley.com/hammerin/calltoartists.pdf You can email or call me with any questions you may have. www.frogvalleyforge.com

[email protected] 304-258-3541

The premium quality German made ERNST REF-FLINGHAUS ANVIL is now available in the USA through the Shady Grove Blacksmith Shop, Grand Is-land, Nebraska.

The Refflinghaus family has been producing premium anvils in the same location since 1886. There are over 100 sizes and styles available ranging in size from 77 lb. to 1250 lb. One of their most popular anvils in both Europe and the US is the double horn anvil with upset-ting block and side shelf. Their anvil face is guaranteed hard at RC59

Thank you for your consideration, Dick Nietfeld

Now Available

Shady Grove Blacksmith shop . .www.blksmth.com 308 384 1088


This 2 page article reprinted from The UPSETTER newsletter May/June 2007


SPRING FLING 2007

Phil Heath demonstrates to crowd of amazed bystanders

Detailed Demonstration and explanations by Lucian Avery


Pipe people by Connie Badowski

Hat tree by Dave Hammer

JJ Roberts Gun Engraver Demo’s during Spring Fling


• It takes less time to use old techniques to pro-duce old appearance than to fake old appearance using modern techniques.

• Chisels etc for treadle hammers should have small cutting edges to concentrate the force of the blow. Small edges also enable a straight chisel to cut curved lines.

• Treadle hammer tools should be hardened for all but the top ½ inch or so. You want the struck end to mushroom rather than spall. The soft end also protects your hammer dies. Tools should be no longer than 4" or so to inhibit kickout.

• Cutting plates should not be made of soft materi-als like aluminum or copper. They deform too much and make cutting difficult. If you’ve been cutting mild steel, your chisel will not be dam-aged by a mild steel cutting plate.

• All butchers, chisels, etc should have curved edges so you don’t get nicks from sharp corners.

• Use rubber cement to attach a paper pattern to the stock. Use a regular chisel to make light

setup lines through the paper pattern; it won’t shift the pattern like a butcher would.

• Use a sharper angle on the butcher used for the first pass. This leaves a shoulder for the more obtuse second pass tool to ride against.

• It is better to run several cycles of first pass/second pass tools to get a deep line than to use one pass and hit harder, which would give a less smooth surface and increase chances of unde-sired effects.

• Make first and second pass tools in a set the same width. Otherwise the second pass might not be able to follow the first pass line.

• The largest work done in the Yellin shop was the gates for the Federal Reserve Bank in Chicago. Each leaf of the pair weighed 25 tons and in-volved 6×8 stock forge welded(!).

• They used a lot of coal.

• Yellin’s tooling was made exclusively for use with wrought iron. It doesn’t work with mild steel, which is too resilient and not soft enough at forging temperature.

• George uses S-1 or S-7 for most tooling. He pre-fers S-1, but it is getting hard to find.

• Do careful drawings. It is much cheaper in both time and money to find mistakes on paper than in iron. Make sure all parts clear each other when, for example, a gate swings.

• Put the drawing on a wall and stand back. Does it look good?

Notes from George Dixon’s Presentation, BGOP Spring Fling, 21–22 April 2007

( not necessarily in the order presented), By Jan Kochansky


• ⅛" Stock is about ideal for chasing and re-poussé. It gives enough metal for good effects without taking forever to do.

• To make a leaf tool (for veining leaves) fuller a tapered groove into a piece of fairly thick stock, and then roll it over the horn. It’s similar to a very fat fishtail scroll.

• Leaf hammers are made in sets with progres-sively thicker faces so they can go down the proper distance into the groove of the leaf tool.

• When sinking copper, if you don’t work within ⅛–¼ inch of the edge, you can sink a hemi-sphere without changing the diameter. The un-worked edge keeps the diameter from growing.

• For dippers and other such tools in copper, don’t anneal too late in the process or the piece will be too floppy.

• If you are doing twists on pickets, don’t do the whole one — no contrast. If you only do 8" or so on each, the twisted area can be moved up or down on adjacent pickets for contrast.

• Designs with re-entrant elements are looked at longer than those without.

• Leads eye out of design Leads eye back in

• You want to have elements that draw people in from a distance, and different elements or de-tails that provide nearby interest, like different quatrefoil ends or rivet decorations.

• “A line worth making is worth making boldly.”

• If you are hiding electric welds, smooth the surface, heat to forging temperature, add some scale, and tap it lightly into the surface. After repeating this process a couple of times, the weld essentially disappears.

• Square stock on the diamond is wider visually than it is on the square. It also has 3 lines (both edges and the corner facing forward) rather than 2 (the two near corners). You get greater visual impact without increasing the weight.

• When setting tenons, cut a couple of grooves in the countersunk part of the mortise for ‘keyways’. When the tenon is forged into the mortise, some of the metal will flow into these grooves and keep the stock from turning. Cor-

ollary: make sure you have it where you want it before setting the tenon.

• For a moulding die (for forged patterns along a bar, for collars, frames, or whatever (the exam-ple he used was for longitudinally-grooved ¼×½ naval brass bar):

1. Hob a rough groove into the die stock (he used an old piece of S-1 about 1×1½×6) by hammering a bar somewhat smaller than the brass size into the hot bar until flush.

2. Then use the edges of the groove as guides for fullering pattern grooves into the bot-tom of the rough hobbed groove. Make several passes.

3. Relieve the ends of the grooves to avoid nicking the stock.

• Bronze goes from reflective to matte a little before forging temperature is reached. Don’t take it above red or it may shatter when struck [been there, done that]. If you are forging bronze, brass, or monel, use a gas forge. The sulfur in coal has disastrous effects on copper-containing alloys. If you get the stock too hot and it melts, turn the forge off and let it cool enough for the metal to solidify before trying to remove it. Otherwise it gets all over the place [this is also the voice of experience].

• When sinking large patterns, it helps to drill an evenly-spaced array of holes about half the thickness of the die stock. It gives the metal something to expand into and makes it possible to sink much larger shapes than would have been possible into solid metal using a given amount of force.


The primary blacksmith for the morning session at Site 2 was Clay Smith of Colonial Williamsburg, with BGOP member Phil Heath tending the forge and oth-erwise assisting. On display was a completed exam-ple of the morning’s project undertake –a ceiling hung trammel hook to support long workpieces in the forge. The hanger length was adjustable by a notched trammel at the lower end, and overall dimensions should be made to fit the maker’s specific need. Forging the trammel began with heating a mild steel piece approximately 3/16 by 1 1/4 and about twelve inches long. A series of notches was formed by holding the workpiece over the heel of the anvil at an angle and hammering from above. The first notch was about an inch and a half from the end, with sides about 3/8 by 1 inch deep. The small length of the notch made an angle of about sixty degrees with the long side. The longer side of the notch ex-tended toward the hook end of the workpiece (the part that hangs towards the ground.) This notching process was repeated at mostly equal intervals along the edge of the stock leaving a small gap between notches, un-til the final notch was placed about two inches from

the end. Clay frequently turned the trammel to the flat side and forged to maintain flatness and straightness. After the notches were forged he used a file on the top edge of short length to make sure they were square and the Y shaped keeper would hold tight. A hook with about a one inch throat was forged from the last two inches of end stock, and the trammel piece temporarily set aside.

Clay next took a 3/8 round bar of mild steel about 36 inches long, heated one end and forged a inch interior diameter round ring. This ring is to be hooked over a nail or hook fixed to the ceiling to suspend the

hanger. The opposite end was heated, folded over, welded, and forged to approximately 3/16 by 5/8 in cross section, with the length about the same as the notched por-tion of the previous workpiece. This now rectangular portion of the round bar will be attached to the notched workpiece with a ‘U’ and a ‘Y’ shaped keeper. The first keeper was formed from lightweight flat stock about an inch wide and two inches long. It was simply folded to form a “U” shaped piece. Then ad-justed so when riveted to the notched workpiece the rectangular portion of the second piece (the round stock piece) could slide through the “U”.

Next the Y shaped keeper was formed. Another piece of the round bar was flattened, folded over, and forged welded partway up the fold to make a handle but leaving enough of the ends open to match the opening of the “U” shaped keeper. The welded por-tion was forged to a taper about 3 inches long. This “Y” shape was opened and the inside V fullered with a piece of square scrap, the same thickness as the 1st and 2nd workpieces. The open ends were then bent back to parallel so the notched trammel could slide through the remaining space. Assembly began by punching 2 matching holes in both ends of the U shaped keeper and the notched trammel (making sure to leave enough room for the rectangular portion of the 2nd (round stock) work-piece to slide along the backside of the notched tram-mel.) The U shaped keeper is then riveted in place. Next a hole is made through both ends of the “Y” keeper and through the rectangular end of the 2nd (round stock) workpiece. The rectangular part of the 2nd workpiece is slid though the U keeper, then the Y keeper is riveted in place. This second keeper serves to adjust the trammel – lift the handle up and move the trammel to the desired height, and then drop the handle to catch hold of a notch.

Clay Smith’s Trammel Hook BGOP Spring Fling, 21 April 2007

by Hop Long

↑ Y shaped keeper

↓ U shaped keeper


Jig by George Anderton to make evenly spaced bumbs for a door hardware

George Anderton showed the tool-box he made, complete with tools by several members. This was an item for the iron in the hat at Spring Fling

Dustin Mace brought steel roses he forged from ordered blanks.

Phil Heath brought completed crosses for his ongoing throne project.

Show and Tell 4-06-07

Phil Heath brought a three-legged forge-welded plant stand he forged at a Guild demo. He finished it and will enter it in the iron-in-the-hat or auc-tion at Spring Fling


A Complete Working Guide for the Beginning Blacksmith – Blacksmithing Fundamentals is a great book for the beginner to the seasoned blacksmith. This 200 page, 8 by 11 soft covered book with a lay flat binding is ideal for use in the shop. Unlike many books, this book stays open to the page without closing. The book stresses the importance of using sound technique without the need for modern tools using ageless techniques. The book is divided into four sections. Section I, Aspects of Blacksmithing, discusses items such as shop set-up, blacksmithing tools, building a forge, fuel and design. In discussing shop set-up, the author looks at three shops the predate the 20th century. Section II, Tech-niques and Procedures, delves into hammer technique, heating principles and concerns, forge welding and heat treating. The blacksmith will find this section particular interesting as the author discusses a new technique of forge welding: the round scarf. Section III, Lessons, takes the reader through 21 progressive lessons that build upon one another using detailed diagrams, photos and articulate descriptive narrative in a step-by-step methodology. These lessons have been proven time and time again in a workshop setting through many years of instruc-tion. Section IV, References, brings together essential information ranging from forge weld-ing flux recipes from the 1800’s to tables on metals. The book, written by heritage blacksmith Don MacKay, was inspired by a lack of blacksmithing books dedicated to the beginner. He believes that “most blacksmithing books are written by very good blacksmiths; however, too many elements are taken for granted. I think the blacksmiths who wrote these books have forgotten how it was when then began to learn the art of blacksmithing. This book rectifies this problem with comprehensive informa-tion, 21 detailed lessons and over 100 pictures and diagrams.” The author, an employee of the Rideau Canal National Historic Site of Canada for the last 22 years, using ageless techniques, works daily with period tools either in an 1843 black-smith shop located at Jones Falls, Ontario, or on the road with an 1800’s portable British mili-tary forge traveling to various cities, towns and villages throughout Eastern Ontario. While turning out a diverse assortment of smithery, Don interprets the history of the Rideau Canal and blacksmithing in a seamless public-inspired fashion while entertaining and educat-ing. With degrees in Music and History, he has both a sense of art and history; united through fire and hammer. The call of the anvil rings clear as he creates unique pieces by means of heri-tage techniques. He dedicates this book to all former and future blacksmiths. This book is ideal book for libraries, blacksmithing associations, historic sites, muse-ums, colleges, school and many other institutions. This detailed book sells for $37.00 which includes shipping to anywhere in North America!! Also, it can be purchased on CD for the same price. For an additional $15.00, a CD of the book can be purchased with the buying of a book. The CD allows the owner to print out pages for separate use, although no modifications can be made to the book. The book can be purchased with cheque, cash, money order or credit card. All credit card orders are made through Paypal buy purchasing the book on Ebay with the BuyNow op-tion. Don MacKay can be reached by: [email protected] or Don Mac-kay, 1246 Black Lake North Shore Rd. R.R. #3 Perth, Ontario , K7H 3C5.

Book Review

Blacksmithing Fundamentals


Hoffmann Publications, publishers of the Blacksmith’s Hournal, has given special permission for this copy-righted material to be reprinted for educational purposes, and that the use of these design ideas and published instruction is for individual use only.

This finial takes elements out of the andiron finial (p.2311), adds to them, then bundles them with a new element. Nine total 3/8” bars are bundled and forge welded together, then welded to a 1” square bar to finish.


VARIATIONS

7. PREPARE THE SCANF FOR FORGE WELDING, (A) OR ARC WELDING (B).THE FORGE WELD SCARFFF ON THE FINIAL NEEDS NO UPSETTING AND CAN BE MADE BY SAWING RATHER THAN FORGING TO MAINTAIN ALIGN-MENT OF THE ELEMENTS

Flames Peacock

1/2” sq

1/4” sq Tendrils

Sprout

8. GRIND THE ARC WELD FLUSH AND “REFORGE” IT TO FINISH

6. WELD A BAR TO THE BUNDLE AND LIGHTLY WELD TOGETHER. DRAW DOWN FROM 1 1/8” TO 1” SQUARE AT THE END FOR ARC WELDING


Ironwork Today

Dear Artists: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., a leading publisher of art-quality reference, art, and design books, is calling for images for an upcoming Ironwork Today update. We are looking for beautiful, professional quality photography of your artwork in iron and interesting, engaging information about you (please see the Submission Form for details). All materials submitted will be reviewed and either a letter of acceptance will be sent or, if the material isn't suitable for this project, the return of the materials sent will be forthcoming. What's in it for me, you ask? Well, first of all submission and inclusion is absolutely FREE! Your only cost for participa-tion is a little time, creative writing, and professional-level photography. Contributors are also credited on the page with the photo caption information, the introductory information about themselves, as well as in listings providing each artist's con-tact information. You can find our books in bookstores and specialty shops throughout the United States, in Britain, Italy, and Japan, as well as online. Our website has a complete listing of over 3,400 titles in print. Interested? Now check out that Submission Form! For more information, please contact me! Jeffrey B. Snyder Schiffer Publishing 4880 Lower Valley Road, Atglen, PA 19310 USA Ph: 610-593-1777 / Fax: 610-593-2002 www.schifferbooks.com [email protected]

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For each artist participating, we need: 1. Information about the artist and the ironwork. For ironwork that is part of an installation, a brief history of the project will be needed. Brief interesting anecdotes related to various pieces and installations are welcome here. 2. Examples of the various forms of ironwork you create, captured in any of the following formats: slides; digital imagery, requiring an image with 300 dpi JPG in Adobe RGB color mode at a 4" x 6" size in the raw or fine data format; transparen-cies; or glossy 4" x 6" or larger photographs. All materials need to be properly identified for return once the project is com-plete. These need to be high quality images you would be proud to enter into any juried art show … considering they will be in print for some time to come throughout the United States, as well as in England, Italy, and Japan. Materials accepted for the book remain safely with the publishing house until the book is finished and are then returned to the contributors, after approximately 6 months after receipt of the final contribution. 3. Identifying the images: Accompanying each image should be information on each image, including the name of the art-ist, title of the work (as appropriate), media used, location of the installation as appropriate, a brief description of the piece or installation, size of the piece or installation, and any necessary courtesy line such as a photographer's credit line or the courtesy line of the owner of the installation as required. 4. Please remember to provide a return address so your materials may be returned when this project is complete and iden-tify each image with your name.


MASA METALSMITHING Conference Tuckahoe Steam Show Grounds

on Route 50, north of Easton MD 8-9 September, 2007

NAME ________________________________.

ADDRESS_____________________________.

CITY_________________________________. STATE_____________. ZIP_________.

TELEPHONE____________________. EMAIL________________________________.

If you would like to have confirmation of your registration, include your email address. NAME of ADDITIONAL ATTENDEES ( All attendees will have a badge.)

1._________________________________.

2_________________________________.

3_________________________________.

4_________________________________.

Cost is $35 per person, except kids and spouses, but add $12 per person for Saturday’s dinner.

Breakfast, lunch, snacks and drinks available from the Tuckahoe volunteers’ food concession.

Tailgating is encouraged if you are registered.

Make check payable to MASA and mail it along with your application to:

JoAnn Bentley 259 Muddy Fork Road Jonesborough TN 37659

Remember that safety glasses must be worn by all spectators during the demonstrations.

Also remember to bring something for the Iron In The Hat drawing.

I plan to camp at Tuckahoe______

Amount enclosed: _____registrations for smiths and interested adults (no fee for spouses/ small children) + ____dinners (for everyone who attends) = ______


Scott D Adams 10917 Lees Mill Road Remington VA 22734 540-439-0783 [736] 12/31/2007 [email protected]

Fred Allder 10684 Figg Shop Road Gloucester VA 23061-2858 H 804-694-0175 [465] 12/31/2007

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George T Anderton III 5325 Ringold Pl Springfield VA 22151-2421 H 703-321-9737 W 202-512-1703 [276] 12/31/2008 ABANA [email protected]

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John J Austen 5902 Amelia St. Springfield VA 22150-3826 H 703-569-3570 W 703-767-9608 [42] 12/31/2008 [email protected]

Connie Badowski 3113 Elmwood Drive Alexandria VA 22303 H:703-960-3450 W:202-275-1645 or 1647 [556] [email protected]

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Fred Banta 9717 Brent St Manassas VA 22110-5631 H 703-335-7059 [531] 12/31/2007

W Dennis Bennett 773 E Ohio Match Rd Rathdrum ID 83858-7524 [61] ABANA

Blue Moon Farm & Forge Judith Berger ARTIST-BLACKSMITH 4988 Blue Moon Rd Huntingdon PA 16652-9606 H/W 814-627-6122 [397] 12/31/2007 ABANA

Brad Bickford 6143 Utah Ave NW Washington DC 20015 202-966-2210 [735] 12/31/2007

John Bishop 1210 South Barton St #319 Arlington VA 22204 703-795-0038 [394] 12/31/2007 [email protected]

David Black 900 Clifton Drive Alexandria VA 22308 H 202-234-5918 [660] 12/31/2007

.Oakley Forge Farm Bruce Blackistone 21924 Oakley Rd Avenue MD 20609-2110 H 301-769-2677 W 202-565-1173 [503] 12/31/2007 ABANA

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Jim Bomba 188 Plum Creek Rd North East MD 21901-5351 H 410-287-6958 W 410-287-7851 [346] 12/31/2007 ABANA

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Stewart Booher 12510 Bracken Hill Ln Potomac MD 20854 H 301-963-0353 W 703-925-6914 [408] ABANA [email protected]

Dan & Judy Boone ARTIST-BLACKSMITH 7381 Parrish Rd Louisa VA 23093-2503 H/W 540-967-3267 [24] ABANA

Paul Bradshaw 8829 Alliston Hollow Way Gaithersburg MD 20879-1661 H 301-963-3905 [432] 12/31/2009

Michael Briskin 1556 N Bryan St Arlington VA 22201-3932 H 703-524-2362 W 703-305-4499 [577] 12/31/2008

Blacksmiths' Guild of the Potomac members

Membership as of Monday, June 18, 2007 Page 1 of 8


Barron Brown c/o Ann Brown 6811 Nesbitt Pl McLean VA 22101-2133 H 828-682-9263 (Barron) H 703-356-7867 (Ann) [166] 12/31/2008 ABANA

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Timothy Buckley 14311 Leonard Calvert Dr Accokeek MD 20607-9746 H 301-292-5368 [492] 12/31/2007

Buzz Burhenn 673 Stoney Rd Heathsville VA 22473 804-580-2334 [680] 12/31/2007

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Donald Cartmell 3321 North Ohio St Arlington VA 22207 703-532-5329 [729] 12/31/2007 [email protected]

Edson Cartmell 3321 North Ohio St Arlington VA 22207 703-532-5317 [730] 12/31/2007 [email protected]

Walter Cate 6329 Lakeview Drive Falls Church VA 22041-1324 703-256-1608 703-875-6286 [174] 12/31/2008 [email protected]

Gulf Branch Nature Center ATTN: Denise Chauvette 3608 N Military Rd Arlington VA 22207-4830 W 703-228-3403 [28]

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Robert Dixon-Gumm 917 Maple Ave Rockville MD 20851 [740] 12/31/2009 [email protected]

Scar Hill Forge Gary M Doub BLACKSMITH 3447 Scar Hill Rd Greencastle PA 17225-9633 H/W 717-597-9736 [210] 12/31/2008 ABANA [email protected]

Albin F Drzewianowski 1045 Poole Rd Westminster MD 21157-7234 H 410-848-0731 [569] 12/31/2007 ABANA [email protected] Duckworth Welding Inc. Jack Duckworth BLACKSMITH 3662 Woodley Rd Waldorf MD 20601-2044 H/W 301-843-9171 [26] 12/31/2007 ABANA

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Terry Fisher 6003 Bull Run PO Rd Centreville VA 22020 [448] 12/31/2007 [email protected]

Flaherty Iron Works Francis Flaherty BLACKSMITH 5416 Vine St Alexandria VA 22310-1000 W 703-971-7653 [140] ABANA

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Susan Fonseca 15809 Norman Dr. Gaithersburg MD 20878-3525 H 301-869-4439 [584] 12/31/2007 Yellow Cat Productions, Inc Michael Ford 505 11th SE Washington DC 20003 [681] 12/31/2007

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Frederick M Grant 714 Fontaine St Alexandria VA 22302-3607 H 703-836-2769 [74] 12/31/2009 ABANA

Dalton A Griffith 1429 Greenmont Ct Reston VA 22090-4045 H/W 703-471-4030 [261] 12/31/2007

Oak Tree Forge Ken Hadfield Upper Manor rd Paington S. Devon ENGLAND [586] 12/31/2007 Andrew Hagelin 4079 35th St North Arlington VA 22207 H: 703-812-4989 W: 703-697-7084 [719] 12/31/2007

Dan Hall 10579 Browns Ferry Rd Georgetown SC 29440-7004 H 843-520-0493 [600] 12/31/2007 [email protected]

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Doug Hawley P O Box 290 Front Royal VA 22630 W 703-968-3136 [628] 12/31/2008

William C Hayes 2623 Lorcom Lane Arlington VA 22207 703-516-9765 [647] 12/31/2007 [email protected]

Philip Heath 4600 S Four Mile Run Dr APT #942 Arlington VA 22204-3566 H 703-671-3134 C 703-508-1553 [449] 12/31/2007 William A Heston Box 191 Round Hill VA 20142-0191 H 540-338-5701 W 703-518-8518 [248] ABANA

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Dan Horner 5208 Ambler Dr Warrenton VA 20187-9201 H 703-304-1053 [622] 12/31/2009 [email protected]

Highland Forge Glenn Horr ARTIST-BLACKSMITH 2994 Highland Ridge Berkeley Springs WV 25411-3637 H/W 304-258-4058 [188] 12/31/2007 ABANA [email protected]

Dan E Houston 59 Aberdeen St S Arlington VA 22204-1324 H 703-521-3169 [197] 12/31/2007 ABANA

Bronco Humbert PO Box 139 Benedict MD 20612-0139 H 301-274-0509 [650] 12/31/2009

David Hutchison 31834 Geib Rd Cordova MD 21625-2242 H 410-820-2041 W 410-820-2093 [175] 12/31/2008 ABANA

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Rick P Johnson 2124 Monaghan Dr Herndon VA 20170 [688] 12/31/2007

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Mike Joy 823 Richmond Ave Silver Spring MD 20910-4915 H 301-589-5269 W 703-418-4400 [212] 12/31/2008 ABANA [email protected]

Michael Juge 7619 Savannah St Apt 103 Falls Church VA 22043 H: 703-560-7708 W: 571-345-2981 [725] 12/31/2007 Meyer Kachel 5722 Edgewater Oak Ct Burke VA 22015 [682] 12/31/2007

Kayne & Son Custom Hardware Inc. Steve Kayne 100 Daniel Ridge Rd Candler NC 28715-9434 [544] 12/31/2007

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George Kranda PO Box 456 Heathsville VA 22473-0456 H 703-503-8178 [490] 12/31/2007 ABANA

Kevin Kubera 4822 N Fairfax Dr APT 1 Arlington VA 22203 704-942-8212 [738] 12/31/2007 [email protected]

Keith E Kuck 5310 Nutting Dr Springfield VA 22151-1918 H 703-321-8109 W 703-797-8814 [360] 12/31/2011 [email protected]

H Scott Lawson 448 Shenandoah River ln Front Royal VA 22630-9121 H 540-837-1582 W 703-648-7832 [391] 12/31/2007 ABANA [email protected] Mark Layton 3 Tower Rd Severna Park MD 21146-4639 H 410-647-3191 W 410-884-1517 [627] 12/31/2007 [email protected]

Fay P LeCompte 1016A East Main St Luray VA 22835-1622 H/W 540-743-1812 [2] ABANA

Teresa M LeCompte Rt 1 Box 2310 Dillwyn VA 23936-8717 H 804-983-5175 W 804-979-2363 [270] ABANA

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Eli Lieberman 4853 Cordell Ave Apt 1418 Bethesda MD 20814-3026 H 301-434-2827 [33]

Fred S Long 5309 Bangor Dr Kensington MD 20895-1106 H 301-942-6177 [511] 12/31/2007

Les & Becky Lorenz 44 Randolph Rd Silver Spring MD 20904-1200 H 301-989-9097 W 301-405-5967 [453] 12/31/2012

Robert D Lukinic ARTIST-BLACKSMITH 5850 River Rd Bryans Road MD 20616-3108 H 301-283-6317 [546] 12/31/2009 ABANA Dustin Mace 29 Barnicle St, SW Washington DC 20032 931-217-1729 [732] 12/31/2009 [email protected]

David Martin 1169 Harbor Oak Drive Crownsville MD 21032 [726] 12/31/2007 [email protected]

Steve Mayer 1150 Delaplane Grade Rd Upperville VA 20184 W 703-909-5457 H 540-592-7000 [702] 12/31/2008 [email protected]

George B McConnell 11804 Cobb Hill Ct Oakton VA 22124-2201 H 703-620-6454 [538] [email protected]

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Pat McGuire 1102 Shannon Pl Herndon VA 20170-3506 H 703-437-9034 W 703-313-2288 [392] ABANA [email protected]

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MacKenzie Millan 5274 North 26th Street Arlington VA 22207 [704] 12/31/2008

Riverwood Forge Cheryl C Miller 12195 Triadelphia Rd Ellicott City MD 21042-1009 [521] 12/31/2007 ABANA

Leonard A Mills 1350 Thompson st The Dalles OR 97058 H 541-296-2925 C 301-461-9095 [333] ABANA

Arthur M Monsen 893 Yardville-Allentown Rd Hamiltown NJ 08620-9502 H 609-585-5912 [411] ABANA [email protected]

Ronald Moore 2348 Springsbury Rd Berryville VA 22611 [707] 12/31/2007

Bob Morris 24800 Shrubbery Hill Ct Damascus MD 20872-2307 H 301-253-2084 [389] 12/31/2009 ABANA

David W Munn ARTIST-BLACKSMITH 9488 Dick Woods Rd Afton VA 22920-1544 H 804-984-6052 W 540-942-8778 [11] ABANA David Murphy 7910 Woodrow Pl Cabin John MD 20818-1638 H 301-229-5794 W 02-619-7405 [629] 12/31/2007 [email protected]

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Jeremy Novak 2005 Halyard Ln Reston VA 20191-3609 H 703-860-3684 [635] 12/31/2008 ABANA

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Sundance Oehser 4020 64th Street Bethesda MD 20816 [678] 12/31/2007

Wally Owen 5219 Clifton St Alexandria VA 22312 [677] 12/31/2009

Michael Pena 117 Brazil Ln Johnstown PA 15909-1244 [134] ABANA

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Michael W Pinkerton 6012 N 25th St Arlington VA 22207-1202 H 703-241-7787 [405] Old Dominion Forge Howard Pohn ARTIST-BLACKSMITH 709 Cattail Road Winchester VA 22603 H 540-722-2139 C 540-247-3788 [415] 12/31/2007 ABANA

Nathan M Powell 2537 Carriage Ford Road Catlett VA 20119 540-788-9044 [737] 12/31/2007 [email protected]

Jeffrey R Pratte 6103 Beachway Dr Falls Church VA 22041-1409 H 703-998-9292 W 202-682-6915 [638] 12/31/2007

White Oak Forge Ltd. Nol Putnam ARTIST-BLACKSMITH 31 Shootz Hollow Rd Huntly VA 22640-3122 W 540-636-4545 [19] 12/31/2009 ABANA [email protected]

John Redmond 6693 MacArthur Blvd Bethesda MD 20816 240-486-6370 301-320-4297 [723] 12/31/2009 [email protected]

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Brandon Sines 9801 Cisler ln Manassas VA 20111-2547 H 703-368-2335 [570] 12/31/2009 ABANA

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Richard G Smith 116 South Adams St Rockville MD 20850-2324 [606] 12/31/2009 [email protected]

Mark Sneddon 5309 S 12th St Arlington VA 22204-3349 H 703-931-7817 W 301-598-7878 [526] 12/31/2007

Tom Soles 3412 Porter St NW Washington DC 20016-3216 [44] 12/31/2007 [email protected]

John F Stapko 6608 Carlton Ct Laurel MD 20707-2701 H 301-953-1949 W 301-937-4456 X106 [552]

John Gregory Stapko 6608 Carlton Ct Laurel MD 20707 [697]

Brian Stone 100 Prospect Ave Gaithersburg MD 20877 [706] 12/31/2007 [email protected]

Ed Straker 11267 Center Harbor Rd Reston VA 20194-1320 [651] 12/31/2008 [email protected]

Cherry Hill Forge Ross A Sullivan ARTIST-BLACKSMITH 11548 Pine Hill Rd King George VA 22485-4669 H 540-775-2067 W 703-750-5909 [170] ABANA [email protected]

Jeff Symanski 6183 Carters Run Rd Marshall VA 20115-2027 H 540-341-3031 [525] 12/31/2009 James Szymkowicz 13332 Scibilia Ct Fairfax VA 22033-1413 H 703-631-2450 W 703-750-4458 [182] 12/31/2009

Phil Trabel 540 Benner Ave Bethlehem PA 18015-4506 H 610-868-5475 [297] ABANA

Phil Travis 376 Boom Rd Berryville VA 22611-2502 H 540-955-3380 W 703-729-8000 [281] 12/31/2007 ABANA [email protected]

Alan V Trickey 178 NW 73rd Ct Newport OR 97365-9508 H:541-265-8007 [426] 12/31/2007 [email protected]

William D Tucker 2725 23rd rd North Arlington VA 22201-4312 [323] 12/31/2008

Tuve Tuvesson 6030 South Point Rd Berlin MD 21811-2629 H 410-641-1597 [239] 12/31/2007 ABANA

Mark Ummen 8605 Kerry Ln Springfield VA 22152 H 703-913-3259 W 703-704-9816 [659] 12/31/2009

Ivy Hill Forge Mark Vanduser PO BOX 162 Round Hill VA 22142-0162 H 540-338-4850 [487] 12/31/2009

Karl Vilbig 20801 Amber Hill Ct Germantown MD 20874 [674] 12/31/2007

Nathan's Forge ™ Nick Vincent ARTIST-BLACKSMITH 3476 Uniontown Rd Westminster MD 21158 H/W 410-848-7903 [143] 12/31/2009 ABANA




William L Walmsley 5915 Justina Dr Lanham Seabrook MD 20706-2333 H 301-459-5416 W 301-474-8700 [204] 12/31/2009

Fred W Walton 4708 Jones Bridge Rd Bethesda MD 20814-3739 H 301-654-3646 C 301-502-7443 [322] 12/31/2009 ABANA [email protected]

William J Weida 144 N Cascade Ave #9 Colorado Springs CO 80903-1402 H 303-596-7492 [137] ABANA

David A Willard ARTIST-BLACKSMITH PO Box 92 Norge VA 23127-0092 H 757-566-3966 W 1-800-366-2337-12185 [477] 12/31/2007 [email protected]

Mark E Williams 114 Federal St Snow Hill MD 21863-1346 H 410-632-0914 W 410-651-6431 [329] 12/31/2007 ABANA [email protected]

Nicholas Willoughby P O Box 39 Trappe MD 21673 [703] 12/31/2007 [email protected]

John C Wintermoyer 17117 Sterling Rd Williamsport MD 21795-3164 H 301-582-0235 [249] 12/31/2008

OTM Construction Co. Inc. William A Wojcik BLACKSMITH 4116 Kingchase Ln The Plains VA 20198 H 540-253-5121 [357] 12/31/2007 ABANA

Lincoln Wolfe 100 Rockdown Lambertville Rd Lambertville NJ 08530 609-397-4562 [728] 12/31/2009 [email protected]

Lawrence R Woltz 240 Speelman Klinger Rd Gettysburg PA 17325-8682 H 717-359-8650 [27] ABANA

Christopher Worsley ARTIST-BLACKSMITH 2980 E Riviera Place Chandler AZ 85249 H:480-802-4560 [53] ABANA [email protected]

Wallace M. Yater PO BOX 51 Rt #3 Mousetown Rd Boonsboro MD 21713 301-432-5789 [386] 12/31/2009

Andy Yoder PO Box 777 Indian Head MD 20640 301-395-4196 [739] 12/31/2007 [email protected]

Roy Ysla 203 Lambeth Rd Baltimore MD 21218-1109 W 410-235-2772 [454] 12/31/2007 ABANA

Peter Yun 9028 Timberwolf Ct Vienna VA 22182 H 703-893-1039 [534] 12/31/2007 Ken & Nancy Zastrow 12800 Hammonton Rd Silver Spring MD 20904-3523 H 301-622-0897 [267] ABANA [email protected]

Charles E Zimmerman 5835 Board Rd Mount Wolf PA 17347 [413]ABANA [414]




Name: Address: City: State: Zip/PC: Country:

Type of Membership Regular.......... $55 Overseas ......$65 Student .......... $45 Contributing ...$100 Senior (65+)... $50 Library............$45

ABANA Chaper Affiliation: Application may also be made at the ABANA web site: www.abana.org

M E M B E R S H I P A P P L I C A T I O N

BGOP Membership Application and Renewal

Name Home Phone________________

Address Work Phone

City State Zip

I am a member of ABANA, The Artist Blacksmiths Association of North America Yes No New Member—$35 or 3 yrs—$75 Renewal—$25 or 3 yrs—$70

Age _______________(Minimum 16 years) Blacksmithing Experience ______ Yes No

Make check payable to: BGOP Mail check and Membership application to: Fred Long, 5309 Bangor Dr, Kensington MD 20895-1106

BGO P shop Nature

Center

Log Cabin

Parking

Gulf B ran ch Natu re Cen ter 360 8 N. Mili tary Roa d

Arl in gto n VA 2 22 07 703-358-34 03

To Lorcum Lan e, R t 29, Spout Run an d G eorge W ashin gto n Parkway

To Chain Bridge, Rt 123 and Glebe Rd

M ilitary Road

E-mail: www url: Phone: Fax: Credit Card Information □Visa □Mastercard Expiration Date: Card# Submit check, money order (US banks only), or by credit card:

LeeAnn Mitchell [email protected] ABANA PO Box 816 Phone: 706.310.1030 Farmington GA 30638 Fax: 706.769.7147

may june 2007 - bgop - blacksmiths' guild of the potomac

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