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Saltfork Craftsmen Artist-Blacksmith Association Officers and Directors President: Jim Carothers 580-336-9213 9501 Frontier, Perry Ok. 73077 colonel@fullnet.

1 Saltfork Craftsmen Artist-Blacksmith Association Officers and Directors President: Jim Carothers Frontier, Perry Ok Vice-President: Larry Mills Wind Hill Rd. Norman, Ok Sec-Treas. Mike George th St. Alva, Ok mike-marideth@sbcglobal.net Director: Gerald Franklin geraldf@texhoma.net Director: Curtis Allen S. 610 Rd. Grove, Ok prairieiron@gcinet.net Director: Bill Kendall E. 59 th St Tulsa Ok wwkendall@aol.com Director: Richard Dyer S Birmingham Pl. Tulsa, Ok irondyer@aol.com Assignments: Editor: Diana Davis NE Wolf Rd Fletcher, Ok Lazyassforge@tds.net Librarian: Gerald Franklin geraldf@texhoma.net Education/Teaching. Larry Mills mills_fam2@netzero.net Events coordinator: Bill Davis Lazyassforge@tds.net The Saltfork Craftsmen Artist-Blacksmith Association, a non-profit organization of amateur and professional artist and craftsmen, publishes this newsletter monthly. Our purposes are the sharing of knowledge, education and to promote a more general appreciation of the fine craftsmanship everywhere. We are a chapter of the Artist- Blacksmith Association of North America. Material from this newsletter may be freely copied without permission for non-profit purposes. Please credit the author and this publication. DECEMBER 2005 Visit our Saltfork Craftsmen Website:

2 LIBRARY LIST A Traditional Suite: Sword Making, set hammers A Water powered Smithy ABANA comes of AGE: 1994 NOMN Exhibit Basic Blacksmithing with Hershel House Basic Blacksmithing with Hershel House part 2 Basic Blacksmithing with Hershel House part 3 Bill Bastus: Guthrie 2002 SFC tapes 1-6 Bob Patrick-Forge Welding Broom making for the Blacksmith Doug Merkel: Misc. projects Doug Merkel: Nail Header Doug Merkel: Saw tooth Trammel Doug Merkel: Tomahawk and Misc. Elmer Roush: Colonial American Hardware and Fixtures European masters Fire and Fantasy Forge Welding with Bob Patrick Frank Turley-Tool making tapes 3,4,5 Hammer man in Williamsburg: An 18 th Century Blacksmith Hershel House: Blacksmithing part 2 and part 3 Jerry Darnell: 18 th Century HDW-Hinge pintles tape 4 Jerry Darnell: 18 th Century HDW-strap Hinges tape 3 Jerry Darnell: 18 th Century HDW- Suffolk Door Latch tape 2 Jerry Darnell: 18 th Century Lighting- Tapes 1,2 and 3 Jim & Kathleen Poor: Tool making-guthrie 2001 tapes 3,4 and 5 Jim Hrisoulas: Forging Damascus Part 1 Jim Hrisoulas: Forging Damascus Part 2 Omey s 2002: Kendall and Dyer- Table Omey s 1997: Ted Sawyer 4 tapes Rob Gunter: Hammers Tape 2 Rob Gunter: Hollow Forging Rob Gunter: Hollow Forging tape 4 & 5 Rob Gunter: Scrolls Tape 7 Samuel Yellin s Legacy; The story of a Metal working shop The Loveless Legend Tom Smith at Hartdner Yellin Foundation: Manfred Bredohl RD Metal Madness RD-2 Ivan Bailey and Paul Hubler RD BAM Ozark Conference Knife making with William White. RD UMBA Conference with Roger Lorance RD UMBA Conference with Bob Tuftee RD-82 Wooden Wagon Wheel workshop, Perry Ok. The Loveless Legend Tom Smith at Hartdner Yellin Foundation: Manfred Bredohl RD Metal Madness RD-2 Ivan Bailey and Paul Hubler RD BAM Ozark Conference Knife making with William White. RD UMBA Conference with Roger Lorance RD UMBA Conference with Bob Tuftee RD-82 Wooden Wagon Wheel workshop, Perry Ok SCABA Conference tapes If you are interested in borrowing any of these tapes, contact Gerald Franklin at a meeting or call him at TRADING POST For Sale: ¾ round bar of 5160 ($3.30 per foot plus shipping) ¾ and 1 round bar of ($6.00 and $9.45 per foot plus shipping) Contact Ray Kirk, ray@rakerknives.com or Army surplus round nosed pliers that make good scroll pliers for small items. They are 6 long $5.00 each plus shipping. I also tie broomcorn brooms on your handle or mine. $15.00 plus shipping. Contact Diana Davis, lazyassforge@tds.net or Tongs, forge, 50# anvil, 2 post vices Contact Don Bagwell Club Coal Saltfork Craftsmen have Arkansas coal for sale. The coal is $95/ton to members and $145/ton to nonmembers. Bring your own containers. Contact Tom Nelson at to make arrangements to pick up a load. DO NOT CALL AFTER 9 P.M. If you make arrangement well in advance, Tom can load your truck or trailer with his skid steer loader. Otherwise you will need to bring a shovel. The coal can be December

weighed out at the Douglas Coop Elevator scales. The coal is in large chunks; bring something to break up the coal into manageable size pieces. Rebuilt Little Giant Trip Hammers! Better than New!

00 each plus shipping. SCABA members can purchase one block for a special members price of $60.00 Contact Mike George at 1-580-327-5235 or mikemarideth@sbcglobal.

net Send your ads to Diana Davis, 23966 NE Wolf Rd. Fletcher, Okla. 73541 or email them to lazyassforge@tds.

3 weighed out at the Douglas Coop Elevator scales. The coal is in large chunks; bring something to break up the coal into manageable size pieces. Rebuilt Little Giant Trip Hammers! Better than New! 25#-$3495; 50#-$4595;Misc. leg vices and hand cranked and electric blowers. Contact Mike George at or Saltfork Craftsmen Swage Blocks $85.00 each plus shipping. SCABA members can purchase one block for a special members price of $60.00 Contact Mike George at or mikemarideth@sbcglobal.net or Jim Carothers at or colonel@fullnet.net Wanted: Advertising Coal Hammers, Contact Mike George at or o Mike- Marideth@sbcglobal.net Send your ads to Diana Davis, NE Wolf Rd. Fletcher, Okla or them to lazyassforge@tds.net NW REGIONAL MEETING In October, Terry and Dawn Gay Brooks hosted a meeting at their shop. The plan for the meeting was to work on the art panels that will be erected in a public area in Alva. No report was sent in about the meeting but I understand that they had a very productive meeting. They finished welding up the remaining panels and are making arrangements to get them painted. Sometime in the future they will be put up in a public area in Alva. If you have any more information concerning this project, please send it in to the editor. SOUTH/CENTRAL MEETING The November meeting hosted by Bill and Diana Davis was well attended. The day started out cool and breezy but that didn t stop several from firing up the forges and heating up metal. We had several new members and a couple visitors that were very interested in the forging. There were about 40 or so attending the meeting. At noon everyone enjoyed some smoked meat with baked beans and hot bread with several kinds of deserts. CALENDAR OF EVENTS NE Regional meeting- (Dec ) Hosted by Curtis Allen. No trade item. Bring your forges and come enjoy the day. Lunch provided. S/C Regional meeting- (Dec ) hosted by Larry Morefield in Medicine Park, Ok. The trade item is a Christmas ornament. NW Regional meeting- (Dec ) Hosted by John and Ruth Burns. Lunch provided. No trade item. Come and enjoy the day of fellowship and entertainment that John has provided. Look for Map in the back of this newsletter. *Unless someone hosts a meeting, the NW regional meetings will be held at Fairview. Please Do Not asks to hold a meeting on another regions date. If you need a different date, choose a weekend not set aside for another region. This does not apply for classes or workshops Editor After lunch the board members and all interested members gathered around the tables and held a critique session of the conference. The conversations centered on what went right with this year s conference and what changes are needed for next years. It was decided to have the conference at the Perry location again next year and the date will be October with setup being on Friday 13 th. December

Other decisions, like demonstrators and chairperson were left open for now but will need to be finalized ASAP so that information can be gotten out to the public.

The trade item was a spoon and we had some really nice examples. I didn t get an exact count but I think that 8 or 9 members participated in the trade items this time.

Bill and I would like to thank everyone for coming especially those that came from Tulsa, Grove, Perry and points North and East. Diana an excellent noon meal.

4 Other decisions, like demonstrators and chairperson were left open for now but will need to be finalized ASAP so that information can be gotten out to the public. Jerry Cathy showing new member Cheryl Montgomery some forging tips. Gerald Franklin had gotten to visiting and had to get his fire going again. The trade item was a spoon and we had some really nice examples. I didn t get an exact count but I think that 8 or 9 members participated in the trade items this time. Around 3:30 or 4:00 everyone called it a day and packed up their forges and headed for home. Bill and I would like to thank everyone for coming especially those that came from Tulsa, Grove, Perry and points North and East. Diana an excellent noon meal. There were several forges going al day and quite a bit of teaching and mentoring at each one. We even had a pretty good tailgate sales area. I think Rex Scrudder learned not to use the back of Jerry Cathy s trailer for a workbench. Along with Jerry s tailgate sales items in the trailer, it was not long before we had most of Rex s tools marked with soapstone as being for sale too. I really could have used that nice $5 rounding hammer. On Saturday afternoon the Saltfork Board met to discuss the 2005 Conference, set the date/place for the 2006 Conference and to discuss what we need to do to improve (raise the educational bar) the 2006 Conference content. Mark you Calendars now; the Saltfork 2006 Annual Conference will be the weekend of October 14 and 15. We really aren t superstitious, so our set up day will be that Friday the 13 th of October. The conference site will again be the Noble County Fairgrounds in Perry, Ok. Several other club items were discussed. One of the major topics was how to bring more folks from outside the blacksmithing community (Saltfork members) to our Gallery and Auction of Artistic Iron Work. We are thinking of a Spring/Summer event possibly in the Brick Town area or Oklahoma City. We may be able to get some help with this from The Arts Group (TAG) or another art group. More about this later. I hope to see many of you at the December 3 rd Christmas meeting at John Burn s. Jim C. SHOP TIP OF THE MONTH If your cutting plate is shorter than the metal being cut, you may have problems getting a straight cut. Make a narrow plate for the heel of your anvil. The metal is easier to cut if it lays flat Notes from Jim C. Thanks very much to Diana and Bill Davis for hosting the November Saltfork meeting. We had a good crowd including several new members and Thanks Jim C. for that Tip December

DEMO FOR THE VETERANS By Gerald Franklin On November 2, I did a demo at the Lawton/Fort Sill Veterans Center in Lawton, OK.

In case you are not familiar with this Veterans Center, it is relatively new and houses about 200 veterans under the care of the Veterans Administration.

I set up on one of the patio areas convenient to one of the major entrances so that the residents could come and go at will.

5 DEMO FOR THE VETERANS By Gerald Franklin On November 2, I did a demo at the Lawton/Fort Sill Veterans Center in Lawton, OK. This was a unique event for me since it was not necessarily a public event, but was held at the facility specifically for the residents of the center. In case you are not familiar with this Veterans Center, it is relatively new and houses about 200 veterans under the care of the Veterans Administration. Many of them have health conditions that will not allow them to travel to a demo outside the facility. I set up on one of the patio areas convenient to one of the major entrances so that the residents could come and go at will. The demo items were very simple but quick, as the idea was to expose the folks to a variety of forge techniques in a short time. We started with a simple S-Hook and then progressed to a series of leaves from 3/8 round stock. Leaves were finished in different fashions to show that smiths have a variety of ways to make similar, but different appearing items from the same stock. I left a few of the leaves that were finished into key fobs with the recreation staff to be used as Bingo prizes in the future. I invited the staff to bring some residents to our South/Central meeting in March Hopefully it will work out that some of the vets can come to that meeting, so plan to come to the Franklin place with your portable forges for a good gathering on March 18, December

6 2006 MEETING SCHEDULE To All: It is time to start thinking about the meeting schedule for next year. Yes it is almost At this time only three dates are committed. If you would like to host a meeting in your area, please get the information to me ASAP. The dates are first come first served. Get your date early and avoid the last minute rush. I can be notified by phone: 1 (580) or by at lazyassforge@tds.net Thanks Diana Davis North East Region South/Central Region Northwest Region January 14, 2006 January 21, 2006 January 28, 2006 February 11, 2006 February 18, 2006 February 25, 2006 March 11, 2006 March 18,(Gerald Franklin) March 25, 2006 April 8, 2006 April 15, 2006 April 22, 2006 May 13, 2006 May 20, 2006 May 27, 2006 June 10, 2006 June 17 (Larry Morefield) June 24, 2006 July 8, 2006 July 15, 2006 July 22, 2006 August 12, 2006 August 19, 2006 August 26, 2006 September 9, 2006 September 16, 2006 September 23, 2006 October 14 (SCABA Conference) October 21, 2006 October 28, 2006 November 11, 2006 November 18, 2006 November 25, 2006** December 9, 2006 December 16, 2006 December 23, 2006** ** These dates can be moved to another unused weekend in the month due to the Holidays. Map to Curtis Allen s shop: December

JUNE Saltfork Craftsmen Artist-Blacksmith Association Officers and Directors. Assignments:

JUNE Saltfork Craftsmen Artist-Blacksmith Association Officers and Directors. Assignments: Saltfork Craftsmen Artist-Blacksmith Association Officers and Directors President: Jim Carothers 580-336-9213 9501 Frontier, Perry Ok. 73077 colonel@fullnet.net Vice-President: Gerald Franklin 580-467-8667