[TheForge] Speaking of age...

[Jim Beard]

Ohh!   I'm a youngun.  I turn 28 in a month.  I was surprised to find
out how many Smiths there are here in Eugene.  A good friend of mine
holds an open shop once a week.  It has a really good turn out.
Usually 6+ experienced, older blacksmiths show up, just to shoot the
breeze, and 6+ 'junior' or apprentice level wanna be blacksmiths show
up.  Us younger guys forge and the older guys offer advice,
constructive criticism, help, and generally offer support and make
themselves a great resource to us beginning folk.

My buddy and I set up a web site in the hopes that we would help some
of the more talented blacksmiths sell / market their stuff.  We
haven't ever finished with the business side of the site, but we did
get some of one smiths work up in the gallery.  Here is a link:

http://www.nw-arts.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=14

Jim
Eugene, OR

On 2/2/07, Andrew Vida <osan at netlabs.net> wrote:
> I was wondering (has this come up before?), how many youngin's are on
> theforge?  How's about we define that as anyone under 30?  I ask because
> I feel as if I'm one of the younger people here and that got me to
> wondering about whether there is a new generation to pick up where and
> when we leave off?  I know of only a few young new-ish smiths like Nigel
> Tudor (met him at Touchstone several years ago.  Very talented young
> guy).  Do things look promising for the coming generation or are we
> heading down another dead end, a la 1970?
>
> Is anyone watching this?  Does ABANA hold this as an issue?  If not,
> should they?
>
>         -Andy
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