oscar C Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 anyone going to quad state this sept? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Einhorn Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Southern Ohio Forge and Anvil (SOFA) Blacksmith Association Poster for the 2009 Quadstate is located: http://www.sofablacksmiths.org/QS%20POSTER.pdf I hope this helps, Dave E. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
781 Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 I will be driving in from Minnesota Roger Degner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
divermike Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 By the shearest good luck, I have been asked to speak at a conference in Columbus on the 24th, which will pay for my trip to quad state, I suppose it might be a good idea to set a place and time to meet and greet, anybody game?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 (edited) Generally a lot of folks from the net, the old keenjunk---now forgemagic crew, will get together in a campsite and have a potluck, show and tell, etc. One sad year we held the toast for Paw Paw there. I plan to drive in from New Mexico; but unfortunately will probably arrive on Thursday evening. We may have to plan to have a Banner or something to identify the group. I of course will have my disreputable red hat as fair warning to others! Edited July 30, 2009 by ThomasPowers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
781 Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 I went ot the link posted above Unfortunately I have already wathced all of the demonstrators except the hawk demonstrator. Of course this will not stop my attending as just the tailgating and BSing is worth he trip See ou there. Look for me riding a bicycle with a 427# Peter Wrong anvil roger degner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keykeeper Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Roger (781), Was that you? I saw you riding around the tailgating area last year. Quite a sight with the anvil on the handlebars! LOL! I also got a kick out of the little kids lifting those anvils! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
781 Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 They are mine I made 3 anvils and a swage block Gave one to a local group who auctioned it off for less than I would sell one for. One or the other has been pictured in a lot of blacksmith newsletters with some one holding it. Try to get the woman or kids to pick it up in the tailgate area. Every once in a while some one will ask if they can carry it to the truck can they have it. Of course you know the answer because a little kid can carry it. The largest one is made from 22 gauge sheet and the smaller one 18 gauge. Couple years ago someone showed it to Mr Postman and he said it did not have Peter Wright feet whick is OK because they are marked PETER WRONG Stop by and have your picture taken I go to about 17 conferences a year so they get around. You would think everyone had saw them by now but can always fool some one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JNewman Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 Roger will you have UMBA DVDs there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian C. Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 Myself and SWMBO will be there. Look for us loafing around the John Fee camp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 There was the year that a fellow had taken a plastic traffic cone and cut off the base and painted it to look like a cast iron smithing cone. Or the balsa wood sledgehammer. And of course PTree's hats... MOB did a flaming anvil sign one year---anvil outline made from copper tubing and plumbed for propane---looked like a neon sign from across camp. Then we did the ASO propane stove.... Quite a bit of smithing "jokes" show up at Quad-State. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
divermike Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 a couple years ago, someone painted clay spencers tire hammer pink, next time I saw him he had a hat that said "pink tire hammer" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
781 Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 IN resopnse to the ? about the DVDs I dont ussally talk about them here but will bring them with. Close to 170 of them now. Need to get the new ones listed on the web site as it has been a buisy year going to conferences. As for Clay Spencer. Saw him at Pontiac, IL a coupe weeks ago. He was wearing a pink ABANA T-shirt and Clifton Ralph asked him about it and Clay said he bought a case of them. I remember the morning he saw his hammer pink and he did not look too happy but seems to have gone with the flow quite nicely. Clay is the man for tooling under a Treadle hammer or power hammer. He has helped 100s of smiths go from just a hand hammer to foot or mechanical power. Not sure if we will get there Wed night or Thursday night Nathan Robertson has vollunteered some space in his trailer if I get carried away with the tailgate purchases. The problem is he probably has told that to a dozen other also. I have converted some of the Pill punches to hot steel punches from two years ago tail gate but havent used any of the race car axels. Now if I would just make a list of the letter stamps I am missing and put it in the van to have when I get there to complete a few sets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 31, 2009 Share Posted July 31, 2009 The heavier S1 pill punches fit in my screwpress's tool holder and make a dandy slitting punch. Did the nicest eye I have ever done punching through 1.25" high carbon square stock for a hawk! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JNewman Posted July 31, 2009 Share Posted July 31, 2009 Thanks Roger, I would like to pick up a some of those older Clifton Ralph videos that you have recently converted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillbillysmith Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 Is the quad state open to everybody? If so, is there a fee to get in n how much is it?? Im currently staying in Troy while I attend Hobart Institute of Welding Technologies. Im about a 10 minute drive from the fairgrounds and would love to attend. Plus, I would like to become a member of SOFA so I can get some hammer time in while Im at school because since I moved, I had to put my equipment away for a while. -Hillbilly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keykeeper Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 Hillbilly, Yes, there is a fee. $50.00 plus anything else you might want to partake in like camping, dinner, etc. Here's a link to the info http://www.sofablacksmiths.org/09%20web%20booklet%20.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
primtechsmith Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 I will be there set up with a forge lit and demonstrating some of Mike's tooling like usual...this year there is something fresh out of the R&D dept. of Mike's brain and machine shop too... You can also hear Roger D.(781) a mile a way...."Blacksmith Videos...5 dollars...." Anyone there look for the "Yesteryear School of Blacksmithing" and "Blacksmith Guild of Virginia" banner. I will be there. Come by and see me.....it will be good to see some of you again and meet new guys and gals too! Peyton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
divermike Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 Peyton, I look forward to seeing you there, this is my 3rd year of attendance, and will once again have to eat crow, the Mrs. birthday is the 25th, but she understands my addiction, and has decided to enable me for a little while longer!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yesteryearforge Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 I will be there Wouldnt miss it Mike Tanner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keykeeper Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 Hoping to make up there again this year, Mike and Peyton. If I do make it, I'll be sure to stop in a say hello. Lot to see there, it should go all week long!!! -aaron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 Full time college students pay $40 according to the flyer I have in my hand. My wife may be having foot surgery soon; if so I may miss Q-S, Alas! (Asking her to put it off till after Q-S would probably ensure I miss it through fatality...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbclean Posted August 20, 2009 Share Posted August 20, 2009 Just wondering as to the size of this event.Possibly of thinking of making the trip from MN. to show our benders in the tailgate area or sell in the vendor area.We have been to the ABANA conferences in Wisconsin and Kentucky.Met alotve nice people.I remember seeing cash jars on the table,if you wanted an item and no one was there take and pay the jar.Not many places this would work.I must say what you guys can do with a hammer and fire is remarkable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yesteryearforge Posted August 20, 2009 Share Posted August 20, 2009 last year i believe the count ended up with a little over 1100 smiths there Probally the largest tailgating around Definately a Not to miss event in my opinion Mike Tanner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted August 20, 2009 Share Posted August 20, 2009 I always just set out a money jar when I sold at Quad-State. I did check it at lunch and dinner as the site is not completely closed---fair grounds is fenced but people do have access to it for other things going on. I don't recall ever coming up "shy". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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