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JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2014 Group Photo of Black Friday Hammer-In One of the young smiths tries on Thomas Ratliff's helmet Contents Editorial 5 From the Editor Minutes from the January meeting Higbee, MO 6 Doug Clemons' President's letter. The Prez Says 7 Making tongs page 10. Scholarship policy and application Scholarship Info 8 Black Friday Hammer-in at Black Friday 10 Ken Jansen's shop. Headache Hammer-in at Pat Homemade Anvil page 22 New Year 12 McCarty's shop. Darryl Nelson's instructions Mini Anvil 14 on forging a mini anvil. Handmade tools from the Jan- Trade Items 16uary meeting. No room for ABANA news Ken Jansen's hack saw dem- Hack Saw 18 onstration. Bob Patrick shares his memo- The Founder Says 19 ries of BAM's beginnings. An Introduction to our confer- Conference Bios 21 ence demonstrators. Ned Digh talks about getting Murphys Back? ready for a Murphy Event 23 COAL Map pg 26 Ads - Personal / Business Classified Ads 24 BAM Coal locations. Coal map 26 Upcoming Events and new Scheduling members. 27 Meeting Map pg 28 2 NEWSLETTER of the BLACKSMITHS ASSOCIATION OF MISSOURI Newsletter of the Membership Application Blacksmiths Name:______________________________________ Address: ___________________________________ Association City: _________________________ State: _______ of Missouri Phone: ( ) ___________________ Zip: ________ Volume 31 No. 1 E-mail: _____________________________________ January-February 2014 New Member Renewal ABANA member? Editor Are you interested in taking a class? Bob Ehrenberger How did you learn about BAM? _________________ Contributing Writers ___________________________________________ Ken Jansen Bernie Tappel ___________________________________________ Bob Patrick Bob Stormer Memberships are for one year from receipt of dues. Dues are $25, which Ned Digh includes a subscription to the bimonthly BAM newsletter. Please make Photo Contributions checks payable to Blacksmith Association of Missouri. Bob Ehrenberger Bruce Herzog Bob Stormerl President's Message Doug Clemons ABANA Membership Application Mailing Labels Bruce Herzog Primary ABANA Chapter Affiliation:_____________ Name: _____________________________________ The Newsletter of the Blacksmiths Association of Missouri is published Address: ___________________________________ six times a year and is mailed to mem- City: _________________________ State: _______ bers of BAM. The annual fee for regu- lar membership is $25/year; a portion Phone: ( ) ___________________ Zip: ________ of this amount is for a subscription to this newsletter for one year. Edi- New Member Renewing Member torial inquiries should be addressed Includes a Subscription to the Anvil’s Ring and The to: Bob Ehrenberger 6192 Hwy 168 Shelbyville, Mo 63469;(573)- Hammers’ Blow magazines 633-2010 or send e-mail to Regular Member ..............................................$55 yr. [email protected] BAM membership inquiries should be Senior Citizen (Age 65+) .................................$50 yr. addressed to: Bruce Herzog, 2212 Full time student ..............................................$45 yr. Aileswick Dr., St. Louis, MO Overseas airmail ..............................................$80 yr. 63129; (314) 892-4690 or send e-mail to [email protected]. Overseas surface mail ......................................$65 yr. Occasionally some material will be Contributory ...................................................$100 yr. copyrighted and may not be repro- Public library ....................................................$45 yr. duced without written consent by the author. BAM welcomes the use of any See reverse other material printed in this newslet- ter provided the author and this orga- nization be given credit. January-February 2014 bamsite.org 3 Officers: President Doug Clemons 1st Vice President Fred Arnhold 2nd Vice President Send this form in an envelope with your payment to: Phil Cox BAM, Secretary c/o Bruce Herzog Don Anders 2212 Aileswick Dr., Treasurer/Membership St. Louis, MO 63129 Bruce Herzog Treasurer/Conference Kent & Deanna Harbit Web site www.bamsite.org Web Master Bernie Tappel [email protected] Scholarship Chair Esther Digh Mobile Training Station Don Birdsall Librarian Karen Bouckaert I __________________________ hereby apply for membership in the Conference Chair Artist-Blacksmith’s Association of North America and enclose $______ Mike McLuaghlin __ as my annual membership dues for one year. The Blacksmiths' Association of Missouri MasterCard VISA Check/Money Order is an affiliate of the Artist Blacksmiths' Association of North America, and is devot- ed to the preservation and advancement of Card Number blacksmithing and to communication among blacksmiths in Missouri and surrounding areas. BAM's newsletter's goal is to support E x p . D a t e these aims. Letters to the editor, tech tips, (Required) tools for sale or anything else which furthers these ends will be considered for publication. The Newsletter of the Blacksmiths' Asso- Checks must be in U.S. currency ciation of Missouri and its members do not SEND RENEWAL TO: manufacture, distribute, sell, test, warrant, guarantee, or endorse any of the tools, mate- ABANA Central Office rials, instructions or products contained in 259 Muddy Fork Rd, Jonesborough, TN 37659 articles or features in the Newsletter of the Blacksmiths' Association of Missouri. The Dues Distribution: Newsletter of the Blacksmiths' Association 1 year subscription Anvil’s Ring: 68.5 % $24 of Missouri disclaims any responsibility or Adm. offices & other ABANA projects (Conferences, etc.): 31.5% $11 liability for damages or injuries as a result of any construction, design, use, manufacture or other activity undertaken as a result of the use or application of information contained in any articles or features in the Newsletter of the Blacksmiths' Association of Missouri. The Newsletter of the Blacksmiths' Association of Missouri assumes no responsibility or liability for the accuracy, fitness, proper design, safety or safe use of any information contained in the Newsletter of the Blacksmiths' Associa- tion of Missouri. 4 NEWSLETTER of the BLACKSMITHS ASSOCIATION OF MISSOURI From the Editor By Bob Ehrenberger he winter is always a busy from Ken Jansen, Bernie Tappel, he January meeting at the coo- time for BAM. With the Black Ned Digh, Bob Stormer and Bob perage in Higbee was a great FridayT hammer-in at Ken's and the Patrick and pictures from Bruce success.T There was a huge crowd Hang Over hammer-in at Pat's and Herzog and Bob Stormer. That is a and a lot of trade items. Because the January meeting, there is plenty lot of support. the trade item was a general idea, to do. there was a real variety of nice have some bad news to report. projects. Thanks to Phil Cox, we iven that our last meeting On the Sunday between Christ- had a really hot forge this year. I marked our 30th anniversary, masI and New Year's, Tony Brooks started the demonstrations be mak- IG wrote and asked Bob Patrick had his shop burn down. To add ing a cork screw, the directions are (Founder Bob) to write something insult to injury, his insurance com- in the November 2011 newsletter. about how BAM got started. He pany is trying to deny the claim I then made a small anvil based on didn't have time to get to it then but because he was running a business an article from the Hammer's Blow did write later with an article about out of the shop. It seems that they which I reprinted on page 14. Ken BAM's beginnings. will cover all kinds of farm and Jansen finished up with a hand personal tools and equipment but made hack saw. e had a good turn out and a not the blacksmith equipment. great time at Ken's. The stat- his issue is when I usually pub- edW project was to make tongs and ondering if I was covered I lish the information on BAM a lot of tongs got made. For a lot called my insurance agent scholarshipsT (page 8), I also got of the guys it was their first pair. I andW discovered that I had the same information from Clay Spencer brought some tooling to make the about the Francis Whiticker schol- offset in bolt tongs and to forge flat arship (page 20). So this is a good jaw tongs under the power ham- time to increase you skills by tak- mer. In addition to making tongs ing a class. there were several hammers forged and some other projects that got on't forget to start work on worked on. Ken brought out the something nice to bring to home made anvil featured in the conference.D There was some talk last newsletter and several guys a while back that everyone that got worked on it. And then something Jerry Darnell's book should make happened that has never happened one of his projects for the auction. before. By the time I made the two My new 2001 Chevy S10 hour drive home, Ken had written fter all the trouble I have had an article about the event and had situation as Tony. I am taking steps the last couple years with get- e-mailed it to me. I mean wow, to rectify that and get coverage. tingA snowed in, I decided to get a what a group. They seem to make a distinction 4WD truck. So we sold our old '91' between whether it is a hobby or van for scrap and bought a 2001 sually I rely on Bob (the a business. I would suggest that Chevy S10. On a similar note, we knife) Stormer to cover the you all call your insurance agents had not had any frozen pipes for NewU Years day hammer-in at Pat and find out if you are covered and about three years. But our house McCarty's. But Bob had grandfa- under what situations you might got caught up in the Polar Vortex ther duties to attend to and put a not be. Don't ask, don't tell, is not and I spent a couple days defrost- request out on Around-The-Anvil a good policy, because they may ing pipes. I also had a chance to for a substitute reporter.