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Join The Guilde of Metalsmiths Metalsmith Back Issue Service Send $30 dues to the address below. Please circle if you want to be Back issues of The Metalsmith are available to listed in our mmebership directory and/or check items you don’t want Guild members for only $3.00 each, postage listed. included. Use your most recent copy of The Metalsmith’s The Guild of Metalsmiths List Me Don’t List Me “How to” index to pick out the topics that interest PO Box 11423 in the directory in the Directory you most. Then, if you don’t already have those St. Paul MN 55111 but don’t list Metalsmiths in your collection, get them from the address - phones: home - work - fax - cell - email - web page Guild of Metalsmiths Back Issue Service! (mark items above you DO NOT want published) To order, write the Volume and Issue number(s) Name: on the back of this form along with your mailing ______________________________________________ address. Company Name: Include a check for $3.00 for each issue made ______________________________________________ out to Guild of Metalsmiths. Send it to: Pete Stanaitis Address: 2476 10th Ave. ____________________________________________ Baldwin WI 54002 ____________________________________________ If you have any questions about the service, contact Pete at 715-698-2895 or email him at: (optional items) [email protected] Home phone: _____________ Work phone: ____________ Fax:______________________Cell:_______________ Email address ___________________________________ Web page: _____________________________________ The Guild of Metalsmiths PO Box 11423 St. Paul MN 55111 Address Service Requested If your address label says 20053, you are up for renewal this quarter. Please send your $30 membership dues to the above address August, 2005 __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ The Guild of Metalsmiths on the web: Metalsmith backissueserviceorderform Read directions on the reverse sideofthisform. onthereverse Read directions Visit our website at http://www.metalsmith.org Use additionalsheetsofpaperifyouneedthem. Looking for something? Try the search engine. On our main page, Please sendmethesebackissues:(vol:issue) just below the index table, click on “Search this Site,” and enter your query. Join The Bellows, our email discussion forum. 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Joining TheGuildof ___________________________________ ____________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Include $3.00 for each “T” number requested. Make check payable to: The Guild of Metalsmiths Send request and check to: Rich Herman 1253 Danbury Way Rosemount, MN 55068 email: [email protected] phone: (651)322-1623 The Forum GoingsGoings onon...... The Guild of Metalsmiths Monthly Notice August 2005 Vol. 7, No. 8 Events in August • Guild meeting August 10 at Dave Olin’s shop in Mendota. 6:30 corn feed, potluck, tour Sibley & Dupree Homes 4-6 pm. On August 10, watch members demonstrate • Almelund Threshing Show, August 12, 13, 14 skills you can learn in our classes • Nowthen Threshing Show, August 19, 20 & 21 Come, one and all, and enjoy a delicious potluck summer meal, Events in September complete with sweet corn. Plan also, of course, to visit with your friends! • Fall Conference, September 16, 17, 18 at Little Log House We’ll meet at Dave Olin’s shop in Mendota (map below), 1351 Hwy 13. grounds- brochure & registration available soon If you arrive early enough (4 pm Sibley House or so), you are invited to tour both Sept. 10 Making & Heat-Treating Tools workshop, MN the historic Sibley House and the School of Horseshoeing Dupree House. They will have staff • Instructors Workshop September 24 at MN School of on the grounds from 4 to 6 pm to Horseshoeing lead tours. At 6 we’ll begin our Events in October potluck, and then the fun begins! • Tunnel Mill, October 1 & 2 Members of the Guild’s Educa- tion Committee will do several short • Guild meeting Oct. 12 at Dan Pate sheet metal shop (complete demonstrations that will represent auto restoration shop) in Stanton, MN. some of the skills you can learn if Forge Welding Workshop, Oct. 15 & 16 at MN School of you enroll in our upcoming very affordable classes. Horseshoeing If you are new to blacksmithing, learn what is offered at the Basics • Oct. 20-22, Tom Latane teaches hand-forged padlock class at workshops. Then see how easy it is, with a little practice, to make your Tunnel Mill. own tongs, punches, and other tools. And there’s nothing magical about forge welding. Watch our own members demonstrate these common blacksmithing skills. Demonstrators needed for summer events Almelund Threshing Show, Aug 12,13,14 2005, a few miles north of Taylors Falls, MN Demonstrators needed. Free entry for scheduled volunteers. www.almelundthreshingco.org Contact: Carl Nordquist The Nowthen Threshing show is coming up soon-Friday, Satur- day and Sunday, August 19,20,21. The Guild has been demonstrating at the show for over 15 years, and will again demonstrate this year. The program is much the same as in past years. Our members may demonstrate for one or all three days. We encourage persons of all experience levels to participate. Mark this date on your calendar and sign-up at the August Guild meeting and get your map to the show grounds. You will receive a pass to enter the show grounds. Contact: Bob Fredell These shows are a great place for beginners to get their feet wet and experienced smiths to have fun (preferably not at the beginner’s expense). preregistered volunteers usually get a free lunch or perk of some sort. Vol 7 Issue 8 The GoM Forum Page 22 Vol 7 Issue 8 The GoM Forum Page 3 Forum deadline for Guild Our neighborhood of smiths September: Monday, educational Check this page every month to see what’s going on with our neigh- August 15, 2005 grants boring colleagues, and read about activities in their smithing groups. If you have activities that There is grant money avail- UMBA will be occurring in September able for Guild members to study UMBA (Upper Midwest Blacksmith Association) features hammer-ins on or October, please send them by intermediate and advanced August 14, September 11, October 16, November 13, and December 11, all Monday, Aug. 15, 2005 to metalworking techniques. at the Matthew Edel Blacksmith Museum in Haverhill, IA. Georgia Myers, editor, by e- The Guild educational grant mail to: program is designed to bring Central Minnesota Blacksmiths meeting schedule [email protected] new skills into the metalworking Aug 1 @ Ken Zitur 37634 Cty Rd 9, Avon, MN 56310 320-746-2557 (e-mails will be forwarded to community. Participants are Sept 12 @ Warren Medina 4115 115th St NE, Sauk Rapids, MN 56379, 320- Georgia Myers), or to given money to pay for a portion 393-2249 [email protected] of their expenses and are ex- Oct 3 @ Al Garber 2566 90th St NE, Monticello, MN 55362 763-295-4632 Nov 14 @ Rocky Spychala 8535 NE River Rd, Rice, MN 56367 320-393- or mail them to: pected to learn some new or 2214 Georgia Myers poorly understood skill, and then Dec 5 @ Ken Zittur 37634 Cty Rd 9, Avon, MN 56310 320-746-2557 313 Dakota St to share what they have learned Lake City MN 55041 with other members and the Badger Blacksmiths August meeting public through an article in our The Badger Blacksmiths August meeting is a weekend (Aug 12, 13, 14) quarterly magazine, “The demonstration event at the Chippewa Valley Antique and Model Club Metalsmith.” They’re also ground’s blacksmith shop. Dan Winrich will be representing the BB group expected to lead a workshop on and welcomes all volunteers. Location: Pioneer Park, Eau Claire,WI. This is The Guild of Metalsmiths, St. the topic (or other educational 3 miles south of Hwy 12 or Clairmont Ave, on Hwy 37. Paul, MN, publishes the GoM service approved by the board). Forum monthly. It is intended as Application forms are Lake Superior Metalsmiths available from the president or Lake Superior Metalsmiths (LSM) meets the fourth Tuesday of the month a tool to further our educational from May through September at 6 pm. The meetings are potluck at 6 pm at mission, to keep members up to treasurer at a regular meeting, or Dave Hanson’s house, 5873 Taft Road, Duluth, Minnesota, 218-721-4572. date on current happenings, to by sending a self-addressed,