[TheForge] Future of blacksmithing

[Dan Tull]

We have always had the problem of explaining to prospective customers what we do and can do.
We don't shoe horses(most of us), and we do better work than pier one imports stuff.
If you can draw it, we can make it, if you have enough money.

Our local guild( read blacksmithing club) would like to, once a quarter, have a meeting in the public eye.
Get the public into our auctions so blacksmiths aren't buying blacksmithing. It's hard to pay a lot for something we could make.
Not to mention the new members we could get with that exposure.

We are trying to get corner samples onto the desk of architects, so they would try to incorporate more ironwork into their designs.
When we can we GIVE pieces to civic groups,  fund raisers, and silent auctions.

We are also trying to have more "open forge" so people w/o shops can get in the fire, and those that want to practice what the demonstrator just showed them.
To keep from re-inventing the wheel, What are you other groups doing to promote blacksmithing.


dan tull
georgia
abba, afc, S.C. psba, obg,sofa