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October 2020
Beginning Blacksmithing Class 1 of 3-Saturday Oct 10, 2020
The beginners basic classes are designed to give everyone the same understanding of the basics, techniques and terminology. The basic classes or proficiency is required before taking any of the many other classes the Guild offers. This enables those classes to concentrate on advanced techniques without having to spend time on basic concepts. This 3 day class covers the basics of: Safety, Tools, Fire Control, Forging Dynamics, Tapers (ribbon, fishtail, point), Twisting, Riveting, Shouldering, Upset, Cutting, Splitting, Punching, Heat Treat,…
Find out more »October 2020 TGoM Membership Meeting
TGoM’s October 14 virtual membership meeting via ‘Zoom’ Hello and welcome to cooler forging weather. The Guild of Metalsmith’s October membership meeting will be on Zoom again on Oct 14, 2020 at 6:45 p.m. We at the Program Committee are excited to announce we will be doing a video shop tour of Hans Early-Nelson’s shop in North Minneapolis as the demo part of the meeting. He is an accomplished smith with years of experience and willing to let us get…
Find out more »Beginning Blacksmithing Class 2 of 3-Saturday Oct 24, 2020
The beginners basic classes are designed to give everyone the same understanding of the basics, techniques and terminology. The basic classes or proficiency is required before taking any of the many other classes the Guild offers. This enables those classes to concentrate on advanced techniques without having to spend time on basic concepts. This 3 day class covers the basics of: Safety, Tools, Fire Control, Forging Dynamics, Tapers (ribbon, fishtail, point), Twisting, Riveting, Shouldering, Upset, Cutting, Splitting, Punching, Heat Treat,…
Find out more »Beginning Blacksmithing Class 3 of 3-Saturday Oct 31, 2020
The beginners basic classes are designed to give everyone the same understanding of the basics, techniques and terminology. The basic classes or proficiency is required before taking any of the many other classes the Guild offers. This enables those classes to concentrate on advanced techniques without having to spend time on basic concepts. This 3 day class covers the basics of: Safety, Tools, Fire Control, Forging Dynamics, Tapers (ribbon, fishtail, point), Twisting, Riveting, Shouldering, Upset, Cutting, Splitting, Punching, Heat Treat,…
Find out more »November 2020
November 2020 Guild of Metalsmiths Monthly Meeting
BULLETIN! TGoM’s October 14 virtual meeting has been rescheduled to November 18 via ‘Zoom’ Hello and welcome to cooler forging weather. The Guild of Metalsmith’s October membership meeting has been rescheduled to Wednesday, November 18 and will be on Zoom again at 6:45 p.m. We at the Program Committee are excited that Hans Early-Nelson will do a video shop tour of his shop in North Minneapolis as the demo part of the meeting. He is an accomplished smith with years…
Find out more »February 2021
Membership Meeting Feb 10 2021
As posted in the January 2021 issue of The Forum, we will have a video tour of Pete Stanaitis’ shop in Baldwin, WI, and he will be on hand to answer questions after the video. Since we will watch the video through (about 30 minutes) and then have questions, if you have questions, please refresh our memories as to roughly when in the video the questions arose. If you have items to share during our “show and tell” portion of…
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