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Vancouver Island Blacksmiths D e d i c a t e d t o t h e r e v i v a l o f t h e K i n g o f C r a f t s Volume 17 Issue 07. July 2005 COMING EVENTS July 10 - July 11 Langford Lavender Days, VIBA Demonstration. Please Volunteer. July 24th VIBA Picnic at Neil & Liane Gustafson’s property located at 1435 Courtland Avenue, Victoria. This event is Pot Luck with our chef Ray Orchard cooking the spit BEAST of Pork! All members and spouses welcome, starting at Noon, eating at 4:30. Also short VIBA Meeting scheduled. August 13 - August 14th Coombs Fair. More VIBA members to Volunteer for this Demo. August 19 - August 21st Vancouver Island Exhibi- tion in Nanaimo. August 27th Cobble Hill Fair August 30 - September 2nd CanIron V. Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. September 3, 4, 5 Saanich Fair September 16, 17, 18 Luxton Fall Fair September 17 & 18th Saltspring Island Fair INDEX President's Report.....................................................2 ABANA....................................................................3 New Members...........................................................3 Art Recognition Award’s..........................................5 Cross Penning Fingers..............................................7 A Garden Trowel......................................................8 Scroll Jig...................................................................9 Membership Renewal.............................................10 A Key Hanger.......................................................3, 4 Can Iron V...............................................................10 VIBA Minutes.......................................................2, 6 VIBA Resident Smith...............................................6 Show & Tell..............................................................5 Notices......................................................................3 2006 Abana Conference............................................7 VIBA’S Fall Demo John Adolph of Maple Ridge, British Colum- bia, was trained as a blacksmith and welder in Germany but has spent most of his working life in Canada. Welding and weld design became his specialty, but John continued blacksmith- ing. John demonstrated for us at CanIron I in Vernon. plan now for October 29 & 30

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Volume 17 Issue 07. July 2005

COMING EVENTS July 10 - July 11 Langford Lavender Days, VIBA Demonstration. Please Volunteer. July 24th VIBA Picnic at Neil & Liane Gustafson’s property located at 1435 Courtland Avenue, Victoria. This event is Pot Luck with our chef Ray Orchard cooking the spit BEAST of Pork! All members and spouses welcome, starting at Noon, eating at 4:30. Also short VIBA Meeting scheduled. August 13 - August 14th Coombs Fair. More VIBA members to Volunteer for this Demo. August 19 - August 21st Vancouver Island Exhibi-tion in Nanaimo. August 27th Cobble Hill Fair August 30 - September 2nd CanIron V. Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. September 3, 4, 5 Saanich Fair September 16, 17, 18 Luxton Fall Fair September 17 & 18th Saltspring Island Fair

INDEX President's Report.....................................................2 ABANA....................................................................3 New Members...........................................................3 Art Recognition Award’s..........................................5 Cross Penning Fingers..............................................7 A Garden Trowel......................................................8 Scroll Jig...................................................................9 Membership Renewal.............................................10 A Key Hanger.......................................................3, 4 Can Iron V...............................................................10 VIBA Minutes.......................................................2, 6 VIBA Resident Smith...............................................6 Show & Tell..............................................................5 Notices......................................................................3 2006 Abana Conference............................................7

VIBA’S Fall Demo John Adolph of Maple Ridge, British Colum-bia, was trained as a blacksmith and welder in Germany but has spent most of his working life in Canada. Welding and weld design became his specialty, but John continued blacksmith-ing. John demonstrated for us at CanIron I in Vernon.

plan now for

October 29 & 30

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2005 - Executive President: Keith Kupitz 478-4095

Vice Pres.: Charlie Low 479-6712 Secretary: Clint Montgomery 360-6910

Treasurer: Norm Norby 478-3589 Librarian: Skip Kennedy 478-8172

Editors:Sandy Sydnam & Dennis Gillett Publishing Info: "Forge" is published monthly by and for members of the Vancouver Is-land Blacksmith Assoc. General Correspondence for VIBA: 1040 Marwood Ave, Victoria, BC, V9C 3C4. (or directly to appropriate executive member) Permission granted for repro-duction of any part of "Forge" provided credit is given to the original source, and the item is not marked 'copyright' or spe-cifically stated to be for the sole use of "Forge". Unless other-wise stated, the editors are the authors of all material. Dis-claimer Notice: "Forge" makes every effort to ensure accuracy of the information contained therein, but the executive offi-cers & general membership of the Vancouver Island Black-smith Association including the editors, specifically disclaim any responsibility or liability for damages or injuries as a result of any construction de-sign, use or application of infor-mation contained in this news-letter. The use of any informa-tion is solely at the user's own risk.

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Submissions & Contributions Submissions to “Forge” can be made at any monthly meeting or by snail mail to:

VIBA - The Editors 1040 Marwood Avenue

Victoria, BC Canada V9C 3C4

OR Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

OR Fax: (250) 642-7055

President’s Report By: Keith Kupitz

VIBA June Monthly Meeting By: Clint Montgomery, Secretary The meeting was called to order at 11:05 am. President Keith mo-tioned that the previous minutes and newsletter be accepted as read. Neil Gustafson seconded the mo-tion and the motion was passed. Show and Tell Dave Winestock brought a pair of bolt tongs, and a hammer that he made in the course put on by Neil and Raynier. Dave also brought in an elegant twist that he developed by using a variation of a technique that was demonstrated by Louie Raflouer. Roger Ferland brought in a hook and eye door latch assembly that was made using a twist design on the body and a wrapped tail on the hook. Neil Gustafson brought in two hammers. One was a Tom Clark hammer and the other was a replica that Neil built himself. Old Business Keith reported that the coal storage bin has been relo-cated, constructed, and is ready to be filled. Yee Haw!! During the site preparation for the coal stor-age, we also contributed a substantial amount of our volunteer time for the MFI. All told there was an ac-cumulated 48 man hours worked towards general cleanup of the fair grounds. A job well done by all who attended!! Keith reminded all that the trailer insurance will be due before the fall fair season is upon us, so that will need to be attended to shortly. Treasurer’s Report Norm reported that all is well. Skip gave the financial status, cost, etc for the recent demo with Louie Ra-flouer. New Business Prior to the meeting there had been some discussion surrounding the storage and security of documents that are important to the club. At the meeting Keith requested that the club look into purchasing a fireproof filing cabinet to be stored in the office so that the documents could be kept safe and readily available. Keith has received confirmation of our attendance for VIEX in Nanaimo August 19th, 20th, and 21st and also for the Saanich Fair in Victoria on September 3rd, 4th & 5th. Make sure you mark these dates, as well as any others, on your calendar. Plan to attend as many as possible, we need all the help we can get for these fair demonstrations! With the very tragic loss of our fellow blacksmith, Jim (Paw Paw) Wilson we are reminded of the dangers surrounding the use of zinc (galvanized coatings) in our workshops. Jim will be truly missed by all those who enjoyed his wisdom and wit! The fumes from these coatings can be incredibly dangerous and at times even deadly. Please be careful out there!

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I must report that June was a rather busy and productive month. Our organized VIBA work parties have been a

real success. Our crews have relo-cated tarps, helped with the coal bin project, donated 20 hours of labour to the Metchosin Farmers Institute and started organizing and cleaning the forge and our grounds. Our coal is now on site from Roberts Bank. The new bin is only half full and contains 20 tones! The club spent a fair bit on the trucking of the coal... much more than we made at the Lux-ton Fair. In exchange for some of the construction fees of the coal bin, VIBA awarded gift certificates for services rendered. The profit reported from the Luxton Rodeo event was $400.00. Now that we have overspent our earnings it’s time to sign up for the now confirmed fairs to come this summer. There will be a sign up sheet posted in the forge area for the following events: Nanaimo Fair (August 19, 20 & 21), Coombs Fair (August 13 & 14), and Saanich Fair (September 3, 4, 5). We need volunteers. All levels and ages of smiths are welcome to demonstrate at any of these fairs. It’s great to see such a crew turning out for the Monday and Wednesday night hammer-ins. I’m seeing some really nice work being turned from our members and lots of learning. See you all at the VIBA picnic on July 24th. Many thanks to Liane and Neil Gustafson for providing their property and hospitality again this year. Happy Hammering!

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ABANA Affiliate Liaison Letter June, 2005 Hello! This month I would like to tell you about three very exciting and unique aspects of the 2006 ABANA Conference in Seattle, Washington! One is “Iron-In-The-Hat” an-other is the “Affiliate Grill Project” and one is the “Member’s Grill Project”. And here to tell you about these projects is Tom Clark. Take it away Tom! Lenny Ledet and I will once again conduct “Iron-in-the-Hat” for the 2006 ABANA Con-ference set for July 5-8, 2006 in Seattle! You can again look for big items, both in tools and other objects donated by the membership to be included in this program that raises money for the ABANA Scholarship Fund. Items will include the BAM box with a spe-cial selection of tools and an Ozark Pattern Anvil complete with stand and tools. That's just the beginning! Members and ABANA Affiliates are encouraged to donate items to this “Iron-in-the-Hat” program. We espe-cially want handmade tools but anything will be appreciated. All items can be turned in during registration or given to me in advance. We will have hourly drawings for items. One of the goals of the 2006 ABANA Con-ference is to strengthen the link between ABANA and its members and affiliates. This link can be reinforced by project participa-tion. There will be an “Affiliate Grill Pro-ject” as well as a “Membership Grill Pro-ject”. The project will use ten inch (OD) di-ameter rings made of ¼” x 1” flat stock, bent on edge ¼” x 1”, hot rolled or cold rolled flat. The ring should be perfectly flat and 10” in diameter. The space in the center of the ring may be used to express your ideas in iron. In order to properly mount your work, please do not drill any holes or violate the space beyond 1/2 the width of the ring. Each affiliate may submit one “Ring” of their choice for the “Affiliate Grill Project” and all work will be done by traditional methods, i.e forge welding, collars, rivets, etc. For the “Membership Grill Project”, any ABANA member may submit a ring. The same dimensions for the rings apply, but the sky’s the limit with regard to type of joinery, i.e mig, tig, bailing wire, etc. The rings may

be submitted directly to me or can be brought to or shipped to the conference site. Shipping address information will be available soon. Rings completed early may be shipped di-rectly to Tom Clark for photo opportunities and advertising prior to the conference. De-tails will also be available on the ABANA website at and the conference website at www.ABANASeattle2006.com. Contact Information: Tom Clark, Ozark School of Blacksmithing 20183 West State Hwy. 8 Potosi, MO 63664 573-438-4725 School Dave Mudge, Affiliate Liaison Member Ser-vices Division 573-747-8648 Cell Chairman Internet Committee 573-438-8483 Fax 985.735.0049 [email protected] [email protected]

Assembling Scrollwork

Key Hanger, Part 3 by: Jake James

This is probably the most intimidating part of the job; all of your hard work so far hangs in the balance of a few forge welds. That said, don't be, it's not all that hard. Forge welding (again).. For this project, with this skinny stock, I'm going to go against my usual habits and say, use flux, just plain old bo-rax. And here is what you are going to do: 1. clean the fire and bring it up to a welding heat, have a good supply of coke ready. 2. heat both elements to be welded to bright orange, remove from the fire and BRUSH THOROUGHLY, and coat with flux. 3. put both elements back into the hotspot of the fire. Turn occasion-ally to ensure an even heat, and bring up to a welding temperature. The flux will melt onto the steel, and should look like honey. You are welding at a lower heat with flux, than without, so you don't want to see sparks. Keep checking the welds until you achieve the desired heat. 4. quickly bring both pieces to the anvil (which you have positioned close by, with your tools laid to hand and ready) and hammer, fast and even, hard enough to close the weld, but don't over thin the mate-rial. 5. take another heat as needed, if you need to bend one end of the now longer and more awkward piece, make sure you use bending forks and isolate the weld, so you don't risk tearing it.

1.) You can now tell when your own mem-bership is up for renewal. Beside your name on the envelope is a year, at the end of that year please renew promptly. 2.) Viba Newsletter and executive are miss-ing the addresses for the following mem-bers: Greg Harstone, Evan Morris & Henry Belanger. If anyone knows of them kindly report to us :-) 3.) The location of the VIBA Picnic has been changed from the Luxton Forge to Neil and Liane Gustafson’s at 1435 Courtland Ave. Starting at Noon.

Matthew Kouacs 721-0412 Russell Gaudin 595-6296

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Keep relaxed, and if possible, use an elec-tric blower; this allows you tohave total control over your heat, without having to juggle winding a fan and holding your weld (even the best only have two hands), or getting frustrated with your helper if they don't seem to be understanding your clear instructions... " bit more air, bit more. bit more, woaaaa, nope. Bit more.." You get my point.

You have all your components ready, one more cut is needed. Trim the end of the long bar (with the penny snub/square corner) to 12 ½". Next put a dot in at 7 ½" from the square corner. Bend back at dot and weld lightly, try not to reduce the material too much. If you have over thinned, upset the weld and form your scarf (see article #2). Re-

member to make sure your scarf's face the right way, so when you put the bevel scroll up to it, it looks like this! Using scrolling irons/tongs and a bending fork, adjust the bevel scroll so it fits the drawing as closely as you can. Bend the short 'arm' out as shown, and tack weld (with the electric) the curved leaf compo-nent to it. Forge weld and draw out to a 6" chisel point. This should be done in one heat to avoid over stretching. Try to weld as far back towards the bevel scroll as you can. Form the double scroll over the anvil, as you would a regular ribbon scroll, then use the scrolling irons and fork to manipulate the rest into shape. The entire panel should sit along a straight edge, with the square corner looking square!

Now do it all again for the other side and you're almost home. Wasn't that bad... was it! The last stage of assembly is easy so I'll whip through it here. First, lay your scroll panels along the length of 1 ¼ x ¼", and mark the curve of the inside of the outside of the ends; check the drawing, it's easier to explain that way! Once you have the curves marked, also mark on a ¼" tenon, long enough to pass through the curved leaf section, and be riveted over. Cut and file the ends/ te-

nons (tenons to round), then mark and drill the curved leaf sections. ¼" holes, counter sunk on the outside.

Slide the scroll panels over the tenons, check it all fits nice and snug, and if it does, lay the whole thing flat, clamp it up, and weld the scrollwork to the key hanger, this may seem like a cop-out after all the traditional stuff, but trust me, you've done well so far, and there's just no need to go showing off! It looks the part, and the amount of work to mount the scrollwork on without welding is not worth all the effort. Do try to make your welds nice though! And remember, do this on the back side, or else you'll get in trouble. Fi-nally, gripping the key hanger bar in the vice, heat and rivet over the tenon ends, they should fill the counter sink, if there is too much, it can be filed and heat coloured with a torch. With everything now held in place, heat up the collar, and squeeze it onto the centre join. Keep the pressure on until it cools. I'll leave hook design and placement up to you. Just put them on with rivets! Any questions and I'll be happy to answer/ demo in a few weeks. j

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BC Creative Awards www.bcachievement.com/creative/

submitted by: Skip Kennedy

Recognizing Excellence in applied art and design. The 2005 British Columbia Creative Achievement Awards recognizes five individuals from British Columbia’s out-standing applied art and design community. Artists and designers who work in jewelry, glass, wood, fibre, clay and metal or such as, but not limited to, textiles, furniture, musical instrument making, weaving, ceramics, book bind-ing, paper, fashion and industrial design are eligible to submit their work. Three awards will be presented to an established artist/designer and one award will be presented to an emerging artist/designer. “Emerging” reflects those at an early stage in their career who have completed their basic training, formal or informal, and have created a significant inde-pendent body of work over a number of years and who have reached a level of achievement and recognition. Award Recognition: $5,000 will be awarded to recipients at a presentation and exhibition. The use of the BC Crea-tive Achievement Award seal will be granted for the win-ning recipients use to signify their creative excellence. Eligibility: A citizen or permanent resident of Canada, who has been a resident of British Columbia for the past three years is eligible to apply. Post hummus submissions will not be accepted. Nominations and deadlines for the 2006 BC Creative Achievements Awards is December 1, 2005. Check the web site posted above for all details and applications.

The Artist - Blacksmith Quarterly

Book Report by: Keith Kupitz I have received the first issue of a one year “complimentary subscription” to The Artist Blacksmith by George Dixon. This subscription is for our VIBA Library. The Quarterly is full of how to’s, slick tooling set-up’s, and a very timely article on metal chasing. Considering all the mem-bers that took part in the repousse demo by Louie Raffloer, this article, by a visiting artist Mindy Gardner should help to sharpen your skills and interest on the topic. Remember Skip Kennedy our Librarian, is at most every monthly meeting and many times on our Monday and Wednes-day night Forge-In sessions. Find him to sign this out! For members that can’t access our library, this would be a great addition to your personal libraries. You may order a subscrip-tion. Mail $28.00 US Funds to Artist - Blacksmith Quarterly, 1229 Bee Tree Lake Road, Swannanoa, NC 28778. Or, sub-scribe on line at www.artist-blacksmith.org

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Secretary’s Report: (con’t from page 2) The T.L.C. has bought the Craigflower Manor and they have requested that as a club we attend their Canada Day celebration annually to man the blacksmith shop they have onsite. In return for our participation in their cele-brations a donation has been graciously offered to the Vancouver Island Blacksmiths Association. Ray brought forth a motion that a form letter be sent out requesting that VIBA demonstrations be mentioned in all of the promotional materials issued in connection with any event that we are attending. Charlie seconded this motion and the motion was passed. Ray has sup-plied a rough draft as a format for this letter, and it was decided that these would be sent out in September after this year’s fair season has passed. MFI has requested that we have a member or two attend our shop at Luxton on Monday June 27, 2005. This is to make our shop available for the perusal of a team of judges that are to be grading Langford for the historical aspect of the “Communities in Bloom” competition. Langford won the event for their class last year and hence have been elevated to a higher tier, and tougher judging for this years competition. Charlie and Keith both agreed to attend. Neil has acquired an awning frame that will work out very well as a removable roof for the new coal storage bin. Clint will get a quote on a canvas tarp to stretch over the awning frame. Neil and Leanne Gustafson have very graciously offered to, once again, host the Annual Blacksmiths BBQ on their property at 1485 Courtland Ave. The party will start around 12:00pm on Sunday July 24th, 2005 with dinner being served between 4:00 and 4:30pm and the party will continue until??? A BIG thanks goes out to Neil and Leanne! John Adolph has been confirmed as our fall demonstra-tor this year. He will be demonstrating the construction of forestry tools and equipment on October 29-30th, 2005. Caniron Committee Neil has asked for the assistance of the entire member-ship in coming up with a list of demonstrators names that we should now be starting to petition for Caniron VI in 2007. We have a lot of work ahead of us so lets all put on our thinking caps, put in a big effort now and help to make this a truly memorable event for all! ABANA Conference Seattle 2006 VIBA, as an active chapter of ABANA, has agreed to man a demonstration station at the ABANA conference in Seattle in the summer of 2005. This will involve hav-ing at least two people assisting a demonstrator with the set up and execution of their particular demo. This sta-tion will need to be manned for four days, twice a day, for approximately three hours each session. This is a relatively large commitment of time that is going to re-quire a number of people’s assistance. Please advise Neil Gustafson once you know that you can commit to helping out with manning our station. Sandy motioned that the meeting be adjourned at 12:30pm. Charlie Low seconded and the motion was passed.

Frank Clayton, now in his 84th year is the new resident smith at the Saanich Historical Arti-facts Society. Frank began smithing in his

father’s shop at age 14. Jose and Sons Blacksmith Shop was operated by Frank and his family from 1875 to 1967 in Roch-dale, England. Frank went on to the Man-chester School of Technology and in the mid 1950’s became a pipeline welder in Australia. Frank started teaching the craft of blacksmithing when he retired and met up with Harold Hennigar. Harold and

Frank promoted blacksmithing from Harold’s smithy on McTavish Road (Sidney, B.C.) in con-junction with the Vancouver Island Blacksmith Association.

Today at the Heri-tage Acres blacksmith shop, with apprentice smith Terry Czyz, Frank helps show off the wonderful smithy built by former VIBA members and volunteers of the Saanich Historical Society. The original shop, 20’ x 14’ x 9’ high is used as blacksmith shop and a small foundry. The new shop built in 1988 that Arne Noes-gaard later housed as the resident smith, teaching and demonstrating for S.H.A.S. is 34’ x 24’ with 10’

walls. The shop has a 25 pound Little Giant trip hammer, two coal forges and most anything a blacksmith could want or need. Indeed, take a tour with Terry and you will find artifacts that will surprise even the oldest of collectors. You can view work-ing steam equipment, a 1917 sawmill and planer mill, one banger gas engines, even experience a tractor pulled hayride. All the dedicated staff and restoration crew are volunteers.

Frank and Terry man the black-smith shop on Wednesdays and Saturdays. It is open to the general public from 9:30 until noon.

VIBA Member: Frank Clayton Resident Blacksmith Saanich Historical Society text & photo’s by: sandy sydnam

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Let me first say, it is not a recommended procedure… cross peining your finger, that is. At the end of a long day you were tired, and just needed to tweak your mas-terpiece a little…and it just happened. What happens next is characterized by animal behaviorists as “hard wired”. It involves some sort of hopping-type dance step, up on your toes, grimacing, often jumping side-to-side and or twirling. The affected limb is either shaken violently or cradled close to the body. All this is accompanied by loud verbalizations, always in the speaker’s native language, and usually making reference to religion, or human procreation, often both. What adaptive advantage all this has is not clear to me, but it obviously must have some. At three AM you are experiencing a symphony of exquisite pain from the now blackened fingernail, keeping time with the beat of your heart. It is an extremely sensitive barometer, able to detect the slightest change in position. Sleep is out of the question, so what do you do now? First of all, you should have kept ice on the finger starting immediately after the event. The problem is that the tissue under your fingernail can’t expand, so any further swelling just increases the pressure. That’s what hurts. Ice helps pre-vent swelling, but since you didn’t do that (or even if you did and it didn’t work all that well) you now need to release that pressure. Get a paperclip; unfold one end, and holding it with pliers, heat the end red-hot using a flame. Wipe the fingernail with rubbing alcohol then with gentle downward pressure use the red-hot wire to make a small hole in the center of the nail. It does not require more than very gentle pressure and happens very quickly if the wire is red-hot. Pain relief is instantaneous. You should not do this if you have a laceration on the af-fected finger, if you think you fractured the bone of your finger or you have bleeding problems (e.g. on blood thin-ners). In this situation you need to get medical attention. You should have gone to the Emergency Room eight hours ago when your wife first told you to go. You can tell the ER doc that you have a “Subungual Hematoma” (sub–UN-gwal HE-ma-TOW-ma). They will be impressed with your diag-nostic acumen…if not your hammering accuracy.

Religious Human Procreation !!!!

Cross Peining Fingers By: D. Gillett, MD

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2006 - Seattle ABANA Conference

by: Neil Gustafson I spoke with Jerry Kagele, about the Abana conference in Seat-tle. Jerry said they will have 6 forg-ing stations with approx 30 demon-strators from all parts of the world. He said they would like surrounding affiliates of Abana to man a forging station, for 2 sessions a day, with 2

people each session. In other words, he was asking if VIBA would put their name on one of the forging sta-tions, ie; “the VIBA forge station”, or “The Krazy Ca-nucks Cajun Station”. I said that we were expecting to give a hand in any way we could, and that would be fine. Jerry said that we would have a banner with our VIBA inscription on that location. Jerry then went on about all the things the demonstrators will be doing, forging gold, titanium, etc. They would like donations for “Iron In The Hat”, the Ring Project, and Auction items. There will be class room sessions, slide show sessions, Karaoke sessions (different people will send slides of their projects in, then when their project is shown by the projector, they will stand up & give an explanation or moratorium). I was thinking about it, after I got off the phone with Jerry, why was he contacting the neighbouring affili-ates? I realized that there were several possibilities, one being; he truly wanted to share the experience with the neighbours. I realized that what ever fight is going on in Washington state, it is not our fight. I think it is more important to show the world that; we are who we are. WE ARE CANAJUN (ie. Canadian = CANA, Ca-jun blacksmith = JUN). So that would be; WE ARE CANAJUN, EH. If they think that the “Murican” way is the best way, They haven’t seen the CANAJUN WAY yet. It is going to be a heck of an event, there is supposed to be a bunch from Australia. I know what the ‘AUSSIES’ are like at a party.... we can’t be taking a back seat. It’s going to be a fantastic spectacle. A warm up to CANI-RON ‘On The Rock’, the nicest continent closest to an eastern continent. I also mentioned to Jerry that we were doing ‘CANIRON VI’ and he said that he would be more than happy to help out with any graphics, computer gener-ated, or any help with advertising etc. Jerry said that Victoria is one of his favorite places and he would help out in any way he can. We should soon put some names together on whom we should try to contact for demonstrators. I know there is a lot of talent I have met at the different CanIron confer-ences. We have a lot of talent in our own country. Just a thought. Ciao fur now.

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Vancouver Island Blacksmith Association Membership Application

Name: ______________________________ Address: ____________________________ City: __________ Prov./State: __________ Post/Zip Code: _______________________ Email: ______________________________ Phone: (_____) _______________________ Fax: (_____) _________________________ Are you a: New Member [ ] Renewal [ ] [ ] Regular Membership $30.00 Annually [ ] Contributory Member $100.00 Annually Make cheques or money orders payable to:

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V9C 3C4

Artist Blacksmiths Assoc. of North America Membership Application

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Scheduled Demonstrators, Instructors & Lecturers

Demonstrators Christoph Friedrich / Switzerland

Paul and Heiner Zimmermann / Germany David James / United Kingdom

John and Nancy Little / Nova Scotia Fred Crist / United States

Brad Silberberg / United States Instructors — Teaching Station

Adrian Legge / United Kingdom, Hereford College of Technology

Henry Pomfret / United Kingdom, Here-ford College of Technology

Lecturers Christoph Friedrich / Switzerland

Paul and Heiner Zimmermann / Germany David James / United Kingdom Adrian Legge / United Kingdom

John and Nancy Little / Nova Scotia Darrell Markewitz / Ontario

Fred Crist / United States Brad Silberberg / United States

Clare Yellin / United States Design Workshops

Doug Newell / Alberta David James / United Kingdom

A Day In The Life Of Lynden,

1915 This year’s reenactment will take

place over two evenings. July 22 & 23 2005

Please note the date change

enter off Island View Road