[TheForge] Percentage in ABANA

[David E. Smucker]

A very small percentage of ABANA members see theforge -- let assume 50 % of theforge readers are ABANA members -- something like 180 folks out of an ABANA membership of something 5000 plus.  You do the math.  More interesting to me is out of blacksmiths in the USA how many are ABANA member?  Here is my guess.  Of our eastern half of Tennessee group (AACB) -- their are something like 210 members.  I would guess of the local forge groups only about 1/3 our members of the larger group.  So that makes something like 630 blacksmiths.  But only about 1 in 2 blacksmiths I know are part of any group so that takes the number to 1260.  Now there are something like  55 similar "chapters" in ABANA.  (I like calling them chapters -- it raises some folks blood pressure.)  Some bigger some smaller but I think on the average ours is typical.  That means today there maybe 70,000 blacksmiths in the USA and Canada.  ABANA gets 1 in 14 as a member.  That is my guess -- Your Mileage May Vary.

Dave Smucker
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Roger R Degner 
  To: Sponsored by ABANA 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 6:27 PM
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  How many are subscribed to the forge and what percent are members less than 50%
  I would bet a small percent of acctual ABANA members see the forge daily.


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