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March 2024
Beginners Blacksmithing Class March 2024-Day 2 of 3
Dates: The classes are held on the following Saturdays of March 9, 16, and 23, 2024 Location: Minnesota School of Horseshoeing, 6250 Riverdale Dr NW, Ramsey MN 55303, just off Hwy 10 near the Anoka Vocational College (see map below). Class Description: 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, Scrolling, Bending, Forge weld. The beginners basic classes are designed to…
Find out more »Beginners Blacksmithing Class March 2024 – Day 3 of 3
Dates: The classes are held on the following Saturdays of March 9, 16, and 23, 2024 Location: Minnesota School of Horseshoeing, 6250 Riverdale Dr NW, Ramsey MN 55303, just off Hwy 10 near the Anoka Vocational College (see map below). Class Description: 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, Scrolling, Bending, Forge weld. The beginners basic classes are designed to…
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April Membership Meeting 2024
Next TGoM membership meeting will be April 10 at Oxygen Service Co., St. Paul, MN Join your fellow Guild of Metalsmith friends on Wednesday, April 10 at Oxygen Service Co., 1111 Pierce Butler Route, St. Paul, MN. Oxygen Service will have a lecture for us on Safe Operating of Oxy Acetylene Torch and Alternative Gas Use. Potluck starts at 6:30 pm. Please bring a dish to pass. Keep in mind, as a Guild member you have a 15% discount on…
Find out more »Candle Chandelier Class 2024
Instructor: Don Hogenson Class size: Max 8, min 4 students Class Description In this class you will be forging, twisting, and riveting together a candle chandelier. You’ll be working with round, flat, and short sections of pipe. Students should have completed the basics classes. Side note: Don learned how to make this in a class given by Dave Marriette – far enough in the past that we couldn’t come up with what year it was. Class Champion: Jesse Gavin 1-715-808-5891…
Find out more »‘Taste of Blacksmithing’ 2024
Instructor: Rebecca Hrobak Class size: Max 4, min 4 Champion: Kim Maas, 651-328-7219, TGoMvolunteer@gmail.com Description: This is the day to try blacksmithing. All are welcome. We have designed this for the complete novice. Hammer in hand, iron heated in the coal forge, anvil at the ready, you’ll be making one or more of these take-home projects shown at right: a drive-hook, an S-hook, a wrist cuff (Viking armband, anyone?), or just keep hammering and see what amazing shape comes forth.…
Find out more »Wire Inlay Class 2024
Instructor: Martin Pansch, 612-599-4762 blacksmithingyeti@gmail.com Cost: $55.00, $65.00 for non-Guild members Class size: Maximum 8, minimum 4 students Class Description: The class will focus on wire inlay into mild steel. This is a technique that can be used to add decorative elements to many of your projects. Students will chase grooves in the metal and then chase the bottoms of the grooves square. The two corners thus created will be chased to form an undercut channel. The upper…
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