Blacksmith Guild of Central Maryland

There are still openings in the Forge Welding class, 9am to 5pm, Saturday/Sunday, 19/20 December, 2009. Bill Clemens is the instructor. He will lead the students through a series of different welds. Starting with the most basic and working up from there. In the process of learning to weld the students will: weld a chain link; make a flux spoon; and weld a ring onto a shaft to form a faceted cube; among other things. The class fee is $175. Prerequisites: 16 years of age and BS-101, or equivalent skills: fire management in a coal forge; basic hammer skills; familiarity with using tongs. Each student will have his/her own forging station with a coal forge, …

The November Monthly meeting of the Blacksmith Guild of Central Maryland will be Sunday, November 15th on the grounds of the Carroll County Farm Museum, 500 S. Center St, Westminster, MD 21157. The facility opens up at 9am and we will be there until about 4pm (more or less). Pot-luck lunch at 12 noon Iron-in-the-hat raffle follows lunch Business meeting at about 1pm including election of Directors for the Executive Board This months featured demonstrator will be Bill Clemens showing how he is making the small anvil shaped pawns for the chess set.

Saturday, October 24th, from 9 am to 4 pm at Harris Metalsmith Studios, BGCM is sponsoring the 2nd Principio Iron Furnace Hammer In. The feature demonstrator is Tim Beachely. Tim is bringing his Fly Press and will demonstrate its use and techniques creating natural forms. Tim does amazing work and loves to share his knowledge and tips of blacksmithing. SCHEDULE 9:00 - 12:00 a.m. Demonstration- Tim Beachley, Fly press techniques 12:00 - 1:00 lunch (Bring your own) 12:30 Iron in the hat drawing 1:00 - 4:00 Demonstration- Tim Beachley, Fly press techniques The Principio Iron Furnace remains are worth seeing. It is a very nice location. To attend you MUST bri…

The October monthly meeting of the Blacksmith Guild of Central Maryland will be Sunday October 11th on the grounds of the Carroll County Farm Museum, 500 S. Center St Westminster, MD. The meeting starts at 9am and will run until about 4pm Pot luck lunch at noon followed by an Iron-In-The-Hat Business meeting at 1pm Trade item this month is something made from plate, sheet, or pipe

As part of the Mason-Dixon Historical Society's 36th Annual Steam and Gas Round Up, the Blacksmith Guild of Central Maryland plans to do an iron smelt. This will be a repeat of the process shown to us by the Colonial Williamsburg blacksmiths during this past May's Blacksmith Days. The iron smelt will be on Saturday, 12 September, 2009. The Guild will have a tent set up in the center of the grounds. If everything goes according to plan they will start the pre-heat at about 9am and start charging the furnace at about 10 or 10:30am. Based on what happened in May we estimate that it will take about 4-5 hours before the bloom is ready to be pulled from the furnace. We…

Apparently the September meeting is the yearly crab feast for members only. Ooops. The October meeting of the Blacksmith Guild of Central Maryland will be Oct 11, 2009, Sunday, according to BGCM 2009 Schedule. (click on highlighted words to go to related web information) Building opens around 9 am. Pot-luck lunch starts around Noon. General meeting starts around 1pm. The trade item for this month will be a Paper Towel Holder. Making a trade item and sharing in the exchange activity is optional. As usual, the monthly meeting of the Blacksmith Guild of Central Maryland will be held in the Blacksmithing School Building on the grounds of the Carroll County Far…

The monthly meeting of the Blacksmith Guild of Central Maryland will be Sunday Aug. 16th on the grounds of the Carroll County Farm Museum, 500 S. Center St Westminster, MD. The meeting starts at 9am and will run until about 4pm Pot luck lunch at noon, followed by the annual Ice-Cream Freeze-Off (homemade ice-cream) Business meeting at 1pm Trade item this month is an ice-cream scoop.

This month's meeting will be August 16th, 2009, according to BGCM 2009 Schedule. (click on highlighted words to go to related web information) Building opens around 9 am. Pot-luck lunch starts around Noon. General meeting starts around 1pm. The trade item for this month will be an Ice Cream Scoop. Making a trade item and sharing in the exchange activity is optional. As usual, the monthly meeting of the Blacksmith Guild of Central Maryland will be held in the Blacksmithing School Building on the grounds of the Carroll County Farm Museum (click here for related web site), 500 S. Center St Westminster, MD. Visitors are always welcome. There is no charge to come …

Well, I am a little late this month. The July meeting of the Blacksmith Guild of Central Maryland is this Sunday, 19 July, 2009. The trade items is a BBQ utensil: fork, spatula, tongs, etc. Facility opens up at 9 am. Pot luck lunch at noon. followed by Iron in the Hat raffle. Business meeting starts at 1pm We should be there until about 4pm. Something to look forward to: August meeting: Sunday 16 Aug, 2009. Our annual ICECREAM FREEZE-OFF. Members bring the fixings and make home-made icecream at the meeting. Everybody gets a taste and then vote whose icecream is best.

The monthly meeting of the Blacksmith Guild of Central Maryland will be Sunday June 28th on the grounds of the Carroll County Farm Museum, 500 S. Center St Westminster, MD. The meeting starts at 9am and will run until about 4pm Pot luck lunch at noon Business meeting at 1pm Trade item this month is something made from recycled material (horseshooe, rr spike, rebar, etc.)

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This weekend is BGCM's annual Hammer-In on the grounds of the Carroll County Farm Museum in Westminster MD. On Friday, smiths from Colonial Williamsburg will be doing an iron smelt. If everything goes smoothly they should be pulling out the bloom in the late afternoon. Then on Saturday and Sunday, they will be making something from the iron bloom. Our other featured demonstrator is an ABS Master Bladesmith, J. Neilson. We will be raffeling off one of his knives. Also in the raffel is an incredibly awesome hand made BBQ grill that looks like a dragon lying on top of a pirate chest. (pictures on webpage) Late Saturday afternoon, there will be an auction of han…

The Blacksmith Guild of Central Maryland in conjunction with the Carroll County Farm Museum offers a variety of blacksmith classes. Classes are limited to 8 students. Each student has his/her own coal forge, 75 kilo double horned anvil and leg vise. For the beginners classes all tooling is supplied. For the intermediate classes, the student is expected to be familiar with fire management in a coal forge and the basic blacksmith forging skills: drawing out, upsetting, punching, bending, twisting. The Carroll County Farm Museum is located at 500 S. Center St. Westminster, MD. We are about 35 miles WNW of Baltimore MD. With 2 exceptions (BS-101/Wednesday Nights, a…