Arizona Artist Blacksmith Association

Good Morning my good folks, My brother in law, Mark, is located in Tuscon AZ and needs to find a shop that will sell him a section of 5 inch OD +/- square tube. He needs good and thick section of tube for the bike rack on his travel trailer. The tube that came with the trailer was so thin the bike rack caused it to bend. Does anyone know of a cut shop that will sell less than a full 20 section of steel? Mark is about to go on to training to be the captain of the DC-10 tanker he works called "Big Jucy". Big Juicy is a fire fighting tanker that works fires in the western US. I would like to take this off his plate since he is moving back in to fire season. If y…

Hi everyone. I know Grizzly forge has open shop on some Wednesdays by appointment in downtown Phoenix and the Desert Rat Forge opens their shop on the first Saturday morning of each month up in Carefree. Are there any other forges in the Phoenix metropolitan area that rent space or have open shop hours for people without a forge of their own?

I see that the Az Artist Blacksmiths Assoc. is putting on Winterfest in Tucson, and since its less than 20 miles from my house I'm thinking of going. What is a blacksmith conference? Being extremely new to this I have no idea. Conference's I've been to thorough work are usually dry, boring, and you fight to stay awake. What really goes on at one of these conferences? Thanks, Bob

December 3, 2017 AABA Annual Banquet &Auction Sahuaro Ranch Glendale

November 4, 2017 Open Forge TBA Tucson

October 7, 2017 Open Forge Holy Hammer Iron Works Tucson Open Forge: Tucson Harold Hilbom will host the next Open Forge on Saturday, October 7, 2017, from 9 AM to noon at his shop, Holy Hammer Iron Works, 5870 E. 14th St., Tucson. If you have any questions or suggestions, contact Harold October 14, 2017 Open Forge Desert Rat Forge Cave Creek Petroglyphs Gallery October 21, 2017, 12:00 - 4:00 228 S. Park Ave. Tucson, AZ Petroglyphs Gallery, in Tucson's Lost Barrio, will be hosting a Blacksmith Jamboree on October 21, 2017 from noon to 4 pm. Ira Wiesenfeld will be demonstrating, and he has invited other interested blacksmiths to join him. Demons…

September 9, 2017 Open Forge Desert Rat Forge Cave Creek Open Forge: Desert Rat Forge (Phoenix area) Paul Diefenderfer will host an open forge on Saturday, September 9, 2017; Saturday, October 14, 2017; and Saturday, November 11, 2017, from 9 am to noon, followed by lunch (You gotta’ buy your own.) at the world famous Big Earl's Greasy Eats in Cave Creek. Desert Rat Forge is at: 40218 N. 78th St. Cave Creek. Directions: From the center of Cave Creek (the 4- way stop at Cave Creek Rd & School House Rd.) head north on School House 1.5 miles to Highland Rd. (If you get to the 4-way stop at Fleming Springs you have gone a tad too far.) Turn right (east) on Highl…

EVENT DETAILS ABANA attendees reflect on Salt Lake Conference TIME All Day (Saturday) LOCATION Arizona Artist Blacksmith Association Camp Verde, AZ

EVENT DETAILS 2nd Sunday – 9am til noon followed by lunch (you gotta buy your own) at Big Earl’s Greasy Eats. Have fun with propane or coal forge, flypress, powerhammer, widgets and gadgets. TIME (Sunday) 9:00 am - 12:00 pm PST LOCATION Desert Rat Forge 40218 N 78th St, Cave Creek, AZ

EVENT DETAILS 2nd Sunday – 9am til noon followed by lunch (you gotta buy your own) at Big Earl’s Greasy Eats. Have fun with propane or coal forge, flypress, powerhammer, widgets and gadgets. TIME (Sunday) 9:00 am - 12:00 pm PST LOCATION Desert Rat Forge 40218 N 78th St, Cave Creek, AZ Insert other media

EVENT DETAILS More details to come… TIME All Day (Saturday) LOCATION Arizona Artist Blacksmith Association Camp Verde, AZ

EVENT DETAILS 2nd Sunday – 9am til noon followed by lunch (you gotta buy your own) at Big Earl’s Greasy Eats. Have fun with propane or coal forge, flypress, powerhammer, widgets and gadgets. TIME (Sunday) 9:00 am - 12:00 pm PST LOCATION Desert Rat Forge 40218 N 78th St, Cave Creek, AZ

EVENT DETAILS More details to come… TIME All Day (Saturday) LOCATION Saguaro Ranch Park 9802 N 59th Ave, Glendale, AZ 85302

EVENT DETAILS 2nd Sunday – 9am til noon followed by lunch (you gotta buy your own) at Big Earl’s Greasy Eats. Have fun with propane or coal forge, flypress, powerhammer, widgets and gadgets. TIME (Sunday) 9:00 am - 12:00 pm PST LOCATION Desert Rat Forge 40218 N 78th St, Cave Creek, AZ

EVENT DETAILS 2nd Sunday – 9am til noon followed by lunch (you gotta buy your own) at Big Earl’s Greasy Eats. Have fun with propane or coal forge, flypress, powerhammer, widgets and gadgets. TIME (Sunday) 9:00 am - 12:00 pm PST LOCATION Desert Rat Forge 40218 N 78th St, Cave Creek, AZ

EVENT DETAILS 2nd Sunday – 9am til noon followed by lunch (you gotta buy your own) at Big Earl’s Greasy Eats. Have fun with propane or coal forge, flypress, powerhammer, widgets and gadgets. TIME (Sunday) 9:00 am - 12:00 pm PST LOCATION Desert Rat Forge 40218 N 78th St, Cave Creek, AZ

Event Details 2nd Sunday – 9am til noon followed by lunch (you gotta buy your own) at Big Earl’s Greasy Eats. Have fun with propane or coal forge, flypress, powerhammer, widgets and gadgets. Time (Sunday) 9:00 am - 12:00 pm PST Location Desert Rat Forge 40218 N 78th St, Cave Creek, AZ

I have two 50gal drums of coal that I need out of my shop while we have an open house for prospecting buyers. The deals is, you can use the coal for as long as you hold on to it for me. Also it would probably help if you have a truck to load it into. I sold mine so I can't deliver it. Pm me if interested. Ill try to check my account periodically.

When and where is the next meeting After the heat and do I need to be an ABANA member?

I've been web surfing and all i can mannage to find is the grill biscuits that aint that great. Im out about the country keepin the grocery stores full of the food stuffs and to bring the chistmas gifts across the country everyone buys from china :( Ill be back in town and would love to get a fire going if only for a few days. where can i buy coal in the Phoenix/Scottsdale in arizona? Please and thank you.

Hey guys Manley iron here but I prefer to be called Eric. Anyway I don't know if you guys know that I am now in Arizona as of October 4th and have moved from Alaska. but I wanted to know if there is any smiths close to peoria that I can talk to or hang with or that I can go to if I need some help since I am a fairly new smith.

Here are some photos of our demo in the ghost town Pearce, Az for Old pearce historic days. The blacksmiths shop was left just as it was in the old days. It was a pleasure to work in it. Like a step back in time. Thank you all who came down to demo. I hope you had as much fun as I did.

Nov. 9 9am is the time and date in Tucson, AZ. Their will also be a 3 day work shop to follow with Mark Aspery to follow. For more info. Go to the Arizona Artist Blacksmith Association web site to follow Nov. News letter which will post mid Oct.

Say! anyone still alive after the bbq summer and the floods of the monsoon season? Sedona, red as red can be anyone know why? is it possible all that red comes from iron oxide? is Sedona a prime spot to go iron prospecting?

How is Gordon Williams doing on his bike trip from AK to the Grand Canyon? I am with the Alaska Blacksmith Association. He put on an amazing demo for us before he jumped on his bike with 2 cans of bear spray & lots of mosquito spray. He demo'd a hummingbird but to us Alaskans it looked like an Alaskan mosquito. I hope they are doing good & getting that 60 miles a day in on their bikes with no problems. Jim Arctic Anvil Anchorage Alaska