[TheForge] Any smiths near Alfred, NY?

[Saint Phlip]

Any of the rest of you who'd like to look at re-creation and
blacksmithing are welcome to join, also. It started out as a List for
the East Kingdom of the SCA, after our very successful first
Metalsmiths Symposium, but has expanded to include folks from all over
the world. We include jewelers and lampworkers as well, since, with
our historical focus, we've discovered that the various trades tend to
have shared various bits of useful information, and we're striving for
the same sort of thing. As an example, the double lung bellows that
many of you use in your historical shops were acquired by blacksmiths
from the goldsmiths, during the Rennaissance.

So, please, guys, join us and be welcome ;-)

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Daniel Kretchmar
<dan at irontreeworks.com> wrote:
> Thank you Phlip!  :)
>
> (I just sent in my request to join it!)
>
> Danr
>
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 7:17 AM, Saint Phlip <phlip at 99main.com> wrote:
>> That looks to be in Aethelmearc, near some of our SCA smiths- in fact,
>> I think there'll be a Metalsmiths Symposium near there. You might want
>> to post on EKMetalsmiths, Danr.
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Daniel Kretchmar
>> <dan at irontreeworks.com> wrote:
>>> Greetings,
>>>     At a reenactment this summer, I met a young man (~20s) who
>>> attends school in Alfred, NY.  The nearest ABANA group to him is about
>>> 1.5 hours away.  Any smiths in or around Alfred that would be willing
>>> to let him try his hand or perhaps give him a lesson or two?
>>>
>>> I can't tell you much about him other than he seemed polite, very
>>> determined, and enthusiastic.
>>>
>>> Dan
>>> www.irontreeworks.com

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