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Mentoring Center Update

We want to thank Lee Cordochorea for updating the NWBA community on the current status of the Mentoring Center! In his words:

“It occurs to me the general membership may be unaware of something which is obvious to those of us in the thick of things.

The Cowlitz County Fairgrounds (where our Mentoring Center is located) is currently being used as an emergency center. No one other than emergency personnel have access at this time. Even if we could maintain safe social distancing during M.C. events, we would not have access to the M.C. at this time.

The Digital Demonstrations are not, in any way, a “replacement” for hands on events. They are, however, a timely and helpful fill-in while we endure the plague of the century. I offer my thanks to the Board and the Events Committee for this interim fix!

In-person events will surely resume once the fairgrounds are no longer needed as an emergency center. I look forward to seeing folk at the M.C. in person once this pandemic is in the past.”

Many thanks for the update Lee!

 

NWBA Conference 2019 Gallery

SWAPTOBERFEST 2018 Cube Contest

SWAPTOBERFEST 2018 CUBE CONTEST

Upset 4″ x 1″ sq into Cube

*Only Tools allowed are 1 pair Tongs and 1 Hammer
* Team Members must alternate striking every other heat.
* Six heats Maximum
*Best Cube Wins based on the following criteria:

A. Squareness 10 pts.
B. Dimensionality 10 pts.
C. Crispness 10 pts.
D. Teamwork 10 pts.
E. Costume 10 pts.

  • First Place: Smokey and the Bandit, Bart Turner and Patrick Maher
  • Second Place: Ill Begotten Twins, Silas Maddox and David Tuthill
  • Third Place Tie:
    • X-Men, Cori Whitlock and Morgan Kirk
    • Mutatus Incubatus, Jason Brown and Torvald Sorenson 
  • Runners up: 
    • Strangers: Matt Moore and ? 
    • Parallela Pipers: Hunter ‘Bad Ass’ Dahlberg, Sweet Kellen Bateham, and a Dunce (name?) 
    • Riv Dogz: Andy Dohner and friend (name?) 

Conference Archives

Alair Wells June 2018

Mentoring Center Demonstration

Alair Wells: Tooling Up, Tools all of us should have in our shop.

Photographs by Dan Bowyer

NWBA Conference 2018 Gallery

Darryl Nelson Forging a Ram’s Head Tomahawk

Swaptoberfest 2017 Demonstration

 

Blacksmith Week 2017 Gallery

Blacksmith Week 2017, at Government Camp, Mt. Hood Oregon.

Photos are taken by Amy Mook, and are basically in chronological order, and unedited.

Terry Carson April 2017

Mentoring Center Demonstration

Terry Carson: Handles, Hooks and Door Pulls

Photographs by Dan Bowyer

Conference Galleries

Mentoring Center Demonstrations

Berkley Tack March 2017

Mentoring Center Demonstration

Berkley Tack: Scroll Jigs and their use, and heat treating

Photographs by Dan Bowyer

Bill Apple February 2017

Mentoring Center Demonstration

Bill Apple: hammer handle install, hinges, and door pulls.

Photographs by Dean Mook

Andy Blakney January 2017

Mentoring Center Demonstration

Andy Blakney treated us to a great demonstration of production style hand forged tongs.  In just over 2 hours Andy forged 4 sets of tongs, 4 different bit styles. Look for an article coming out in the Hot Iron News 2017 Quarter 1, due out mid March.  

Photographs by Dan Bowyer

Blacksmith Week 2016 Gallery

Blacksmith Week 2016, at Government Camp, Mt. Hood Oregon.

Photos are taken by Amy Mook, and are basically in chronological order, and unedited.

Mark Aspery Demo March 2016

Mark Aspery spent 4 days at the NWBA Mentoring Center in March 2016, 3 days were for a workshop, and the 4th was the day was our monthly demonstration.  Here are some photographs taken at the demonstration illustrating the forging of a Stag Horn Hinge.  For notes on the demonstration look HERE.

Arnon Kartmazov Demo Gallery September 2015

Arnon KartmazovTools, Tricks, and Hofi’s ergonomic forging method and its applications

Arnon’s demonstration covered many topics and techniques, he used a wide array of tools and showed a variety of applications the aggressive forging style he learned from Uri Hofi. As with most skilled demonstrators, what seems easy takes a lot of practice and hammer control. Using direct blows on the edge of the anvil, on a hardy tool, or under the power hammer one can achieve a lot of movement, which can cause a lot of trouble if the blows are not deliberate and precise. Here are  photos from his demonstration, with many thanks to Dan Bowyer for sharing them with us.  All photos copyright Dan Bowyer 2015.

NWBA Conference 2015

Hands-on class at NWBA 2015 Conference

NWBA’s 2015 Conference was jam packed with activities.  We had three demonstrators; Dennis Dusek teamed up with Brett Moten to build a sculptural NWBA sign, and Frederic Crist who also took on a sculpture project – spectacular flying birds.

There were four hands-on classes; Steve McGrew- BBQ Tools, Lisa Geertsen – Italian Leaf, Kellen Bateham – Origami in copper and steel, Scott Szloch – scrolling collaring and riveting.

AND… there was a repoussé station, a slide show, gallery, auction, and a ton of demonstrating and hands-on going on in the tailgater areas, and we had a beautiful firepit to hang out by -built by Hunter Dahlberg and Kellen Bateham. These photos are just a taste of what we enjoyed.

Blacksmith Week Gallery 2014

Darryl Nelson and Terry Carson work on the 4 hour gate using all traditional joinery.

Darryl Nelson and Terry Carson work on the 4 hour gate using all traditional joinery.

Blacksmith Week at Summit Camp on Mt. Hood was a blast. Four jam packed days of demonstrations, hands-on work and open forge time… and good times hanging out in a beautiful setting. . . Blacksmith heaven.

Blacksmith Week is sponsored by Cascadia Center for Arts & Crafts (CCAC), which offers instruction in many mediums of art and craft. Visit www.cascadiaart.org for more information on their programs and facilities.

NWBA Blacksmith Gallery

Welcome to the NWBA Gallery of Blacksmith works and demonstrations.

There are two sections to our Gallery: Demonstration and gallery pages for viewing only, and our legacy gallery (vBulletin PhotoPost), ported over from our original website. The legacy gallery is the place where registered website users can upload photos of their work.  It is a great opportunity to share your photos, as well as on our Forum.

The gallery is viewable by the public, but you must be a registered website user to upload images.
Your login for www.blacksmith.org is the same login for the gallery, if you enter the gallery before logging into the website you can login from the gallery.

Browse the Galleries via the links at the right