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SUMMARY:Handled Struck Tools 2025
DESCRIPTION:Instructors: Bob Brown\, Dave & Jesse Gavin\, Herb Fick\, Wayne Olson\, George Auel \nClass size: Maximum students: 4                 Minimum students: 8 \nClass description: \nThis is Herb\, organizing yet another Handled Struck Tools Class for the day before the holiday party. We are electing Bob Brown to be our lead instructor this year. The Gavins\, Dave and Jesse\, are anxious to see how Bob would lead the workshop.\nWe will still use 4140 AN steel; 5/8 and ¾ diameter. We use this alloy because it is well known\, makes a good tool\, and makes a good example for teaching heat treating. The handle will be whatever Bob wants it to be as long as it uses 1018 rod. Special quench oil is supplied courtesy of the Northfield VFW. \nThe instructor’s goal for the workshop is to produce students comfortable with the process of forging and heat treating tools from nominal tool steel.  A secondary goal is to have the students comfortable with the use of treadle hammers. We expect to have three treadle hammers of different styles available.\nHerb procures the stock and a literature package reviewing the heat treat principles and a bit of really ancient history. The principle reference used will be the book Steel Metallurgy for the non-metallurgist by John Verhoeven.   (ISBN-13: 978-0-87170-858-8) This year’s demonstrator at the fall conference\, Howard Clark\, made a contribution to that book and is a friend of Verhoeven. The book is available through the internet without charge. \nThis crew has offered the workshop for quite a few years. They have developed many ways to offer guidance on technique. Ask anyone who has taken the workshop. Rarely has anyone left the day with less than two working tools\, punch or chisel. \nA feature of this particular workshop is the use of treadle hammers. We usually have three or four available for the participants to try/use and we encourage participants to also try striking for each other. Or ask a helper to strike\, to get a feel of how this is done in demonstrations at fairs and shows. \nOn Saturday\, December 6 we gather at 8 AM at the MN School of Horseshoeing\, Ramsey Minn. We do introductions\, safety\, and review the literature that gets sent out when people register. Then at 9 AM we are in the shop. Lunch is brown bag\, or area restaurants. We usually are shut down at 5 PM. \n 
URL:https://www.metalsmith.org/event/handled-struck-tools-2025/
LOCATION:MN School of Horseshoeing\, 6250 Riverdale Dr\, NW\, Ramsey\, MN\, 55303\, United States
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SUMMARY:December Guild Meeting 2025
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, Dec. 7!\nTGoM’s annual holiday gathering is set for Sunday\, December 7 at the CSPS Hall in St. Paul\, MN. Join Guild of Metalsmiths families at 383 Michigan St.\, St. Paul\, MN 55102\, at the corner of West 7th and Western. Map below. \nThe hall will open at noon. We usually share hors d’oeuvres as people arrive\, so bring your favorites if you wish. The annual business meeting is first on the agenda\, including awards\, elections\, and the normal business stuff starting at 1:00 pm and going on for an hour or so. \nThat leads into show and tell\, and possibly an impromptu mini-auction. By then\, we’ll all have worked up an appetite to sit down to our always delightful holiday potluck. Please bring a dish to pass. \nIf you’re a first-timer to this event\, just go upstairs at the front of the building when you get there. An elevator entrance is also located on the side just off the parking lot. Bring your family! \nAny questions about this meeting can be answered by contacting meeting champion Mike Frattalone at icemanfratt@aol.com. \nIf you’re interested in learning more about the CSPS\, go to their website\nhttps://www.sokolmn.org
URL:https://www.metalsmith.org/event/december-guild-meeting-2025/
LOCATION:CSPS Hall\, 383 Michigan St\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Meeting,Upcoming
ORGANIZER;CN="Mike Frattalone":MAILTO:icemanfratt@aol.com
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SUMMARY:Open Forge
DESCRIPTION:The Education Committee is offering a Free Open Forge for Guild Members Only. There are eight forges available for our membership to use. There is no lesson or agenda except to get some iron hot and hit it with a hammer. There are sign-ups that will guarantee you a forge space. If you just want to stop by and hang out\, you are welcome to do so. If there’s space at a forge\, have at it. This is an excellent opportunity to hang out with and learn from fellow smiths. Beginners are welcome to send Harvey an email with their topic of interest or problem you’re trying to solve\, and we’ll do our best to have an answer and/or help available. \nBring: The Guild provides the space (forges\, anvils\, etc.) and coal. Please bring your own steel\, hammers\, tongs\, chisels\, etc. \nSafety Equipment: the usual for forging with coal: gloves\, safety glasses\, hearing protection\, clothing of natural fiber with no cuffs or fraying\, and leather boots or shoes \n 
URL:https://www.metalsmith.org/event/open-forge-2/
LOCATION:MN School of Horseshoeing\, 6250 Riverdale Dr\, NW\, Ramsey\, MN\, 55303\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Harvey Steele":MAILTO:hsteele@handeecleat.com
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