Log In
Register
Home
Topic RSS
9:47 pm
NWBA Member
February 17, 2011
Offline
I've been working to create a blacksmithing program at Hahobas Boy Scout camp for the last few years, and it has been extremely successful. Every year the number of boys coming through the program increases, and we're trying to improve our program each season as well. Literally hundreds of young men have had the opportunity to try their hand at blacksmithing, learning the basics of the craft.
This summer we're building a 20x40 building to serve as our smithy, but are still trying to raise all the funds needed for it. To that end, I'm hoping to find some smiths willing to donate their time for a weekend workshop fundraising program. This will be run as a 3-day event over memorial day weekend. The event will be held at Hahobas Boy Scout camp, near Tahuya, WA, and is planned to run for 8 hours per day. It should be a fun experience for everyone involved, instructors and students alike.
If you're available to teach or give a demonstration that weekend, please let me know. Include your contact information, how much time you can commit, and what you would like to teach. Workshops on a specific type of project are welcome, as are general technique classes. If you're not able to offer a workshop, but are wiling to come and just offer general assistance to students, that's fine too.
Once I have a good idea of what kinds of instruction will be offered, I'll start sending announcements regarding the event itself.
If you have questions, suggestions, can teach or assist that weekend, please let me know. Thanks!
--Tracy
4:40 pm
good luck with such a worthwhile project.
someone here should be able to help
5:18 pm
March 22, 2010
Offline
Looks good Tracy, Hopefully this will generate some support.
Tracy contacted me about this and I have agreed to do a workshop at this event, I suggested he post here in the hopes of finding more assistance.
My feeling this is what the NWBA is about, we have a motivated and captive group who are looking for instruction and information. We have an obligation to do what we can right? So lets see some support! All you guys who argued that The NWBA's sole reason was to teach back on the workshop thread? Time to step up!
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln
3:23 am
NWBA Member
February 17, 2011
Offline
Thanks Larry.
I submitted an article to the Hot Iron News covering the progress of our smithing program at camp for the last few years. It may not go in, (or if it does, it might not be until the fall.) If anyone wants to know more information about the program, feel free to contact me, I'll be happy to talk your ear off about it. 🙂
I started the program in 2008- at that point it was just one anvil and a forge set up in a clearing by the side of the lake. It's grown significantly since then, and building the new smithy will go a long way towards improving the program and handling the growth.
Hopefully enough folks will volunteer to instruct or give a demo for our fundraising event to work out. I'm looking forward to it, I think it will be a lot of fun for all involved.
6:16 am
March 18, 2010
Offline
Well Tracy, you're certainly welcome to produce a different article for the website if you'd like. There's an article submission forum if you want to drop the material in there.
“There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot,
but then there are others who, with the help of their art and their intelligence,
transform a yellow spot into the sun.” ~ Pablo Picasso ~
10:46 pm
NWBA Member
February 17, 2011
Offline
Grant;7635 wrote: Well Tracy, you're certainly welcome to produce a different article for the website if you'd like. There's an article submission forum if you want to drop the material in there.
Thanks, will do!
Also, in case it's not clear from my initial post, I'm not asking for instructors ready to work with kids. Even though the goal of the fundraiser is to benefit the smithing program at scout camp, this particular event is not targetted at youth. I expect most of the participants will be metalworking enthusiasts, with some beginners-- but adults, not young scouts.
12:47 am
NWBA Member
February 17, 2011
Offline
(The article is up now: http://blacksmith.org/forums/t.....Scout-Camp)
I'm still looking for instructors for our Memorial day weekend fundraiser. Please let me know if you'd be willing to come out for the weekend and teach. What you teach is up to you- it can be a project, a technique, even just some basics. We can arrange the weekend around what kinds of workshops are being presented.
Thanks,
--Tracy
7:32 pm
NWBA Member
February 17, 2011
Offline
We've had some delays in construction (primarily due to weather) and some difficulty getting the kind of volunteer turnout at our work weekends we'd hoped for (likely also due to weather.)
As such, this weekend workshop event is going to be postponed- it's not clear right now whether the smithy will be ready by Memorial Day weekend. We're working hard to get it ready by summer camp, but I don't want to build up everyone's hopes (and adjust their schedules) in the event we don't have it ready by Memorial Day.
If you're interested in getting involved, we can certainly still use volunteers to do labor on building construction, but for now, the need for volunteer instructiors is on hold.
Thanks!
--Tracy
Most Users Ever Online: 668
Currently Online:
9 Guest(s)
Currently Browsing this Page:
1 Guest(s)
Top Posters:
Larry L: 1566
Grant: 1420
Bruce Macmillan: 625
Lee Cordochorea: 595
Lynn Gledhill: 572
JNewman: 520
Gene C: 504
J Wilson: 426
Eric Sprado: 383
Tom Allyn: 340
Member Stats:
Guest Posters: 22
Members: 8722
Moderators: 4
Admins: 1
Forum Stats:
Groups: 23
Forums: 97
Topics: 3537
Posts: 20288
Newest Members:
RuoYi, rodeoneerer, NWBABjorn, mddangelo, Nevillberger, Crusty Veteran, redwoodforgeoakland, Jimekalmiya, George_Kelley, Roger HaydenModerators: Steve McGrew: 77, N.W.B.A.: 72, webmaster: 0, bluehost: 0
Administrators: admin: 540
Usage Policy