[TheForge] Re: Classes in Bradenton/Sarasota

Sun Nov 10 01:33:01 2002

You could contact  Bob Jacoby,  [email protected]
he's prez of FABA.
dave m

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Subject: [TheForge] Re: Classes in Bradenton/Sarasota

> So far as I know, there aren't any.  Manatee Historic Village has the
> equipment, but unless something has changed in the past couple years, no
> smith (he last time I was there, the equipment was in the boat shop).
> Spanish Point in Osprey has a smith interested in working with them (ME!),
> but museum bosses don't seem to have much interest.  There are 2 historic
> sites near there with smiths, volunteers who are there when they can be,
and
> when I last checked they didn't offer classes.  And of course I can't
> remember the names....one is just outsideof Sarasota to the west, the
other
> NorthWest of Bradenton.
>
> Ringling School doesn't regularly offer any metals classes, although there
is
> talk of holding some soon.  Manatee Community College has welding classes,
no
> forging.
>
> As for the iron shops in Sarasota, well, they're all pretty much cut and
weld
> shops.  Even Kreisle Forge doesn't do much forging anymore.
>
> Jerry Veneziano
> Williamsburg, VA
> whose folks were Sarasota residents, which is why he's done the research
=)
>
> << Hi,
>  I'm looking for blacksmithing (private or group) classes in the
>  Bradenton/Sarasota, FL area. Thanks,
>  Dana Wiese >>
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