Events, Hammer ins, Where to meet

All, This coming weekend will be the New England Blacksmiths Spring Meet at Brentwood, New Hampshire. It will be a working meet to get ready for ABANA 2020 in New York. If you want experience with making tongs, punches, drifts or fabricating forges it will be a great opportunity. I'm pumped for a short work week then headed up Friday. Bryan

May 26 at 9:00 A.M. Peter Ross' Shop Silver City, NC

June 23 at 9:00 A.M. Blacksmiths Shop in Yesterday Village Dixie Classic Fairgrounds Gate 9, 27th Street Winston-Salem, NC

On the weekend of April 28/29 there will be a hammer-in at the Freetown Historical Society Blacksmith Shop. The demonstrator is Bran Martens, lead instructor at the arc and Flame in Rochester , NY. Brian will be demonstrating making wood working tools and heat treating them. There will also be a green coal area for folks to try it as well. This will be run by Dick Renker, former instructor at Arc and Flame. We are also working on having blacksmith stew for Sat. nite. For those interested in camping there is room for several campers/tents. All the buildings have electric outlets and there is running water. Early arrival and set up on Friday is fine. Assonet is part o…

Evening all. I was wondering if there was any blacksmith(s) in or near Great Falls Montana? Maybe like a group or some guild. I tried looking for such thing on the interwebs and no such luck for me. Heck even just a person that wouldn't mind me watching them work and asking questions. (even will try my hand at being a striker if needed) Just learning what I can from who I can until I can get all my items together for my smithy. (still in need of an anvil) I'm just eager to learn. If there is a member that wants to set up a meeting time just message me. Id very much appreciate it! :) Thank you for your time and info.

Just getting started and looking for smiths or groups in my area. Savanna IL right on the Mississippi River in North West Illinois. Looked at the site to try to find but not having luck.. Mike

I'll be attending this one this Saturday in Bellville, should be pretty cool. Bounty forge will be there with a booth with Steel Wool. Anyone from here gonna be there?

I am going to John Deere school Nov. 14 - 16 in Davenport, Iowa. I could bring a bucket of blacksmithing tools with me for the two evenings I'm free. I'm an intermediate blacksmith and would like to learn something new from an experienced smith as well as look at someone else's shop. What do you think?

April 17th 6-9pm at 208 Gerrard st.east Toronto Hope to see some of you there... Just thought I'd throw this out there

On March 25th, we had a very successful meeting of folks in the blacksmith shop at Williams Grove Historical Steam Engine Association in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. Both beginner and intermediate skills/information was shared with attendees. Please PM me with your email address if you wish to be added to list for updates to what is happening at the Blacksmith Shop at Williams Grove Historical Steam Engine Association. Blacksmith group meetings at the Williams Grove Blacksmith shop are planned for last Sunday of each month. (Please to not use the forge before you pay dues for the Williams Grove Association and sign their release form.) We will be developin…

I am a newbe to smithing. I have been a veiwer of this forum for a while. I would like to meet others that are interested in blacksmithing, that live in Las Vegas NV. or surerounding area. LeeRoy

Alberta Farrier Championships (AB-Can) April 13 @ 8:00 am - April 14 @ 5:00 pm Place: Stathmore, AB Stathmore,AlbertaCanada

The 30th Annual Batson Bladesmithing Symposium will be held April 6-8, 2018 at the Tannehill Ironworks near Bessemer, AL. I will try and attach flyer below, if that fails check www.alaforge.org Or PM me with email address, and I will forward. Al 2018 Batson Blade-flyer, schedule, form.pdf

Indiana Blacksmiths Assoc. Make plans to attend the IBA conference June 1-3, 2018

Indiana Blacksmiths Assoc. Make plans to attend the hammer in April 21, 2018

All, St. Louis area gentleman looking for someone willing to provide a bit of instruction and open forge opportunities. I recently attended a basic 101 level half-day course on blacksmithing and enjoyed it a lot. Family man employed in the defense of the nation. Jason

Attended the UMBA Winter event February 25, 2018. well attended and a super shop. no one left hungry. Met a lot of great people and learned a lot.

was just wondering if anybody was planning on going to the February event open shop at steephollow forge works in Bryan Texas if you're in the area you should consider going- I went last year and it was a blast. if you click on the link it will tell you all about it. a bunch of really nice people, well aren't all blacksmiths? Littleblacksmith

The 8th annual combo demo is coming up, and awfully quick! If you can make it try to, this will be my 4th year and each year is different and better. I will be demonstrating that day in the morning, sometime around 9:30 along with member "BountyForge" from here, and then I may also be demoing in the evening under the public demo tent, come say hi! If you get the chance, this is an event you wont want to miss! here is the information from the website. There will be more demonstrators than listed, that list isnt the complete uddated list. The 8th Annual Combo-Demo: Blacksmithing Demonstration & Metal Arts Exhibition When: Sat…

Hello forum, I'm Mike and I live on Long island N.Y., Suffolk county and I'm wondering if there are any members living out my way. I generally forge small items that I sell online, bottle openers, leaf keychains, some knives etc. I' like to find some like minded people who enjoy the art.

In the "Never too early to start planning" department, I just made my hotel reservation for Quad-State 2018. (I actually made reservations for both September 21-23 and September 28-30, since I'm not sure which weekend it will be. One of the (few) benefits of frequent business travel is the hotel reward points!) Looking forward to meeting all of you, finally!

Hello, Are there any blacksmiths near Stockholm, Sweden? I have just started playing around with my forge and anvil and would like to meet similar people with the same interest! //Oliver

Is there a SOFA Quadstate 2017 ? Everything I find on their site and on the internet is from 2016. Last newsletter was Winter 2016. I find no place to register for 2017, or any information in the event for this year.

The 2017 Hammer-in will be held on Saturday, August 26th from 1-5 PM. Demonstrations starting at 2:00. As before, if you would like to participate, please feel free to attend. If you would like to come, please let ‘Mike’ know so we have a ballpark figure of participants. 1-802-357-2010 or by e-mail at [email protected] The mill will furnish the refreshments. Price: FREE! If you are not familiar with Ben’s Mill, it is a formerly water-powered woodshop and blacksmith shop in Barnet, VT. Ben Thresher was a local legend for his ability to fix or build just about anything out of wood or metal. The mill is owned by a non-profit, Ben’s Mill Historic Trust, with the g…

Couldn't get the link to work that lists all the groups nation wide, so I figured I'd post here and try to get some info. Anyone know of any groups in Maine??