Boot Scraper Class 2016

Instructor: Tom Sander
Class size: Maximum students: 6    Minimum students: 3

If you have walked around rural Minnesota in the spring you have likely become quite a connoisseur of how different mud sticks to your boots. It is also likely this appreciation has also seen you banned from entering the house prior to shedding pounds of you boot covering muddy goodness. Well your troubles are at an end! In this class Tom Sander will lead students in making boot scrapers. Students can chose from making a free standing scraper with a hand hold (pictured), one with stakes to drive into the ground, or one intended to be anchored into concrete. This is an intermediate skill level class that included punching/drifting, limiters mortice and tenon joinery, and being able to forge several pieces to match a drawing (and each other). Striking will be used in this class both for drawing steel and top tool use. This is a two day class but there is room for a few people to stay overnight at the Pansch homestead, assuming you are okay with cats. Join us for a nice relaxing steel pounding weekend in the country with your Guild friends.

To register for this class, send a check for $110 made out to “Guild of Metalsmiths” to:
Martin Pansch
8750 Yale Avenue
Young America, MN 55397
Questions: (612) 599-4762, blacksmithingyeti@gmail.com
Acceptance priority is determined by postmark.