[TheForge] BAM

Wed May 7 21:47:03 2003

Dave,

The conference was good even though the weather didn't cooperate. It was
cold and windy on Saturday and cold, rainy and windy on Sunday.

I spent all my demo  time watching George and learned a lot.  It takes a lot
of patience to develope the effects that he does.  The most important thing
was to make a lot of passes only moving a little metal each time.  Keep it
balanced so that the piece maintains syemetry.

George's show and tell pieces are amazing.

The most frustrating thing about the conference was that there were so many
good demonstraters it was hard to choose.  My son spent his time watching
Don Fogg and was impressed that Don could hand rub a knife in a fraction of
the time my son takes, so there is room for improvement there.  Don also
made and then used a Sen, I got to see some of that when he was using it
Sunday morning before the demo time actually started.

I also got to see part of the Sid Suedmeier talk on tuning a trip hammer
when George got done right on time and Sid ran over.

On Friday I got to see Bryan and Ed Braziel making their horse heads.  They
let us take close up pictures at each step so there will probably be an
artical on it in the BAM news letter in the near future.

Bob Ehrenberger
Shelbyville, Mo

Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 17:26:06 -0500
To: [email protected]
From: Dave Brown <[email protected]>
Subject: [TheForge] BAM (was Re:  Public art project)
Reply-To: [email protected]

At 11:13 05/06/03 -0700, you wrote:

>Someone recently said they saw George Dixon demo,

Speaking of George demo'ing, how was the BAM conference this past weekend?

Dave Brown
Heritage Smithing
Green Bay, WI
ABANA, UMBA, GoM, MODA, ARG