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Issue 3 - Autumn 2010
In this issue :-
• Editorial.
• Presidents Note.
• Community Challenge... No rust for the wicked.
• Round the town... Angaston and Burra
• Designing with Rhinoceros
• How to...Rivets
• Around Oz'...The latest News
• Blacksmith Doris....the second coming
• Latest News....L.A. visitor
The 'Alf Head' Forge revival.
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Contents
The objectives of the Association shall be to promote, preserve, and develop the Craftsmanship, and
techniques of all the various disciplines associated with Artistic Blacksmithing to the highest standards
possible.
Supporting these aims include:
a) To Provide means of communication between mature people with an interest in the craft of Blacksmithing, for the exchange of ideas, experience, techniques and information for their
mutual benet, by the publication of a regular Newsletter.
b) To Encourage a greater awareness of, and interest in the appreciation of the skills of
Blacksmithing among Architects, Interior Designers, Art and Craft groups, and the general
public, and to provide links between Blacksmiths and potential customers by means of
Exhibitions, Demonstrations, and Publications.
c) To Promote and actively provide the opportunity for training in all the various aspects of
Blacksmithing means of demonstrations, lectures, and special tuition sessions.
d) To Act as a representative body, in the interests of Australian Blacksmiths, locally, nationally
and internationally.
e) To Undertake community service, providing these services are within the comfortable limits
of time, talents and costs that the association and individual members can a ord, in the
context of the associations, purpose, objectives, rules and legal obligations
f) To encourage communication and goodwill among Blacksmiths of all Nations.
g) To co-operate with similar associations in every practical way at the local, national and
international level with the interests of the association’s members and community
h) To ensure the association achieves the purpose and objectives by allpossible legal means.
Purposes & Objectives of ABASA Inc
2....Editorial
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....Contents
....Cover.. Old Tailem Towns 'Alf Head' Forge
....Presidents Note.....Chris Carter 4
5 ....Community work...Old Tailem Town
6 ....Round the town- Angaston Forge-Bon Accord at Burra.
....How To... Rivets by Rob Kenning10
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....Latest News....Steve Christensen by Rob Kenning
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The Bellows
AUTUMN EDITION #3
APRIL 2010
EDITOR
Rob Kenning(08) 83702137
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Rob Kenning
COMMITTEE MEMBERS
PRESIDENT
Chris Carter(08) 82625415
VICE PRESIDENT
Sonja Hurst(08) 83860910
SECRETARY
Rob Kenning
TREASURER
Kirstie Stewart
(08) 83779360
GENERAL COMMITTEE
Terry Johnson(08) 83825559
Cat Lambert (08) 81650918
Keren Sutcliffe (08) 82401363
Stan Briggs (08) 83568868
....Useful sites and Contacts
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....Designing with Rhinoceros... by Rob Kenning
....Around Oz....Latest interstate news.
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....Blacksmith Doris...the second coming....by Kirstie Stewart
'The Bellows' is compiled usingBelights 'SwiPublisher'
Graphics created inRHINOCEROS VER 4 & Pixelmator
Made on an iMac
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Editorial
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Welcome to our third edition of The Bellows Newsletter.
It's been a tricky quarter since Christmas to get this edition out, and I'm running a month late,but nally, here it is. I hope you all enjoy the articles and news. After a one month visit to Alice Springs over December and January, I hit the ground running.Chris and myself made the monthy pilgrimage to Angaston and had the pleasure of helping out Tina Herd with her rst set of tongs. Tina is an A.B.A.S.A memberand a regular attender at theAngaston Forge, and is developing her skills quite well. We also had a visit by a retiredCalifornian Blacksmith by the name of Milo Johnson. Milo and his partner are travelling to theeastern states, hoping to call in on our associates in Victoria and NSW. I have included a sectionon what i s happening around the state regarding Blacksmithing in general. If you have anyarticles or stories, preferably with pictures, please let me know.Just the other day, we had another U.S. visitor by the name of Steve Christensen. We took himup to Angaston for a visit to the forge. Theres more about the day at the end of the newsletter.
In this edition, I have written an introduction to using a comp uter to design your work. Rhino iscapable of producing any design you can imagine and produce all the drawings and graphicsrequired to assist you in designing, forging and selling your creations to your customers.I will endeavour to write further articles and tutorials in the next few editions.If anyone has any requests regarding tutorials, let me know.If there is any interest, I can hold one on one tuition if you would like to use Rhino in your work
ow.
We have a few workshops coming up, of which Chris can elaborate on, and the membership isgrowing steadily. Lets hope there are more to come.
Planning for the Royal Adelaide Show is progressing well and a womans event is going to be arst for us this year. Kirstie Stewart has made the trip to Victoria a couple of times for theBlacks mith Doris Day and we hope to have a session in SA down the track. Along with the local action, we have movement in the bush, with work progressing on ring upthe Burra 'Bon Accord' and Moonta forges for special days. This will be a unique opportunity for
our members to forge using the historic equipment of our forebears. It's also a good chance toshow the public that there's blacksmiths in the community.... sometimes, closer than you think.It brings to mind a recent add on eBay. A mirror framed in wrought iron, where the seller quotes"Made by one of the two remaining Blacksmiths in Australia". Now doesn't that bring a ghostlychill over you in a hot forge.
Anyway, keep the iron hot and I hope to see you round the traps.
Rob KenningEditor
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Presidents Note...
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Well time is ying as the saying goes and we are having somefun along the way. It doesn't seem that long ago that we hadour rst meeting and a lot has happened in a short time. Our
membership has passed our expectation and this shows thatthe art of blacksmithing is alive and well. Some of the memberswere able to assist in the clearing up of one of the forges at Old Tailem Town. There still is some minor pipe work to do, after thatit is ready to use. For further information please contact me. Terry Johnson has been looking at the forge at Moonta howeverthere is a bit more work to do there. So that looks like anothervenue for the future as is the Bon Accord mine at Burra. Terryand Rob visited that forge and we have been invited to operateit when there are special events on.
Staying on future events in June on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 there will be workshops led byMalcolm Paine from Western Australia. Malcolm will also have copies of his book available for saleat the Workshops. In May there will be a workshop held at Terry's forge on Saturday 29. Collaringwill be a component that will be covered. If you have an area of blacksmithing you would likecovered please contact a committee member. Notication and enrolment forms will be availablein the near future. Later in the year we are hoping to have Terrance Clark here while he istravelling around the eastern states. More information will be available at a later date. In 2012 weare hoping to have an American blacksmith here for several workshops. Rob and I spent anafternoon with him at the Angaston Forge. His name is Steve Christensen and we only had him fora short time as he lost my contact details.
So there will be plenty happening in the Association, if you have any ideas or suggestions pleasetell a committee person or write to the secretary Rob Kenning. In August the Annual GeneralMeeting will be held on Thursday 26. This is an important meeting for the Association so put it inyour diary.I will be overseas from June to July and hope to catch up with blacksmiths in the United Kingdomand the United States. Sonja Hurst will chair the meeting s in my absence. Remember it is yourAssociation so support your committee, attend workshops where possible, share your ideas andmost of all enjoy your blacksmithing.
Chris Carter
PresidentArtist Blacksmiths Association South Australia
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Old Tailem Town
A large contingent of volunteers, some 30 in all,
converged on Old Tailem Town, over the 19th - 21st of
March 2010. The Port Adelaide and Eneld HistoricalSociety, led by the coordinator, Seeta Ashly, divided the
volunteers up amongst the exhibits, to scrub, clean, paintand revive a host of sites and exhibits that are on display
to the general public.
A.B.A.S.A was represented by Chris Carter, Rob Kenningand Keith Clarke for the Saturday session. In consultation
with Peter, the owner and manager of Tailem Town, we
decided to get stuck in to the Alf Head forge. There are three forges on the site and each one has a full
range of tongs and hand tools, as well as anvils and
forges. After taking stock of the condition of the forges, itis apparent that they have all su ered from the ravages of time and will require a lot of work in removing the build
up of excess ironwork, Flora and Fauna. The 'Alf Head' forge is the closest forge to the main
building and entry. Some of the items of ironwork are
from the original owners stock and include someinteresting sets of fullers and formers, hand crank
blowers, leg vice's, atters and hardy tools by the box full,as well as a nice collection of large tongs.
Standing at the entrance, and gazing into the dim lit
interior, it was hard to know where to start.First order of the day was to remove all the irrelevantitems that had nothing to do with the forge, and then
seperate the tongs into 'useful' and 'museum pieces'.Chris manned the power brush and stripped the rust and
scale, while I sprayed and wirebrushed the dirt and
cobwebs o and played the hammer over the rivets toremove the sideplay in the tongs.
Keith sorted out the larger tongs and transported themover to another forge for future work at the next working
bee.
Some of the larger tongs that have been relocated for the next
working bee.
At the end of a hard days work, the smithy scrubbed up
well. After the forge was cleaned out, we discussed how
best to replumb the tuyere. This particular forge has thefacility to have a horizontal water cooled tuyere or a
bottom fed arrangement. Because of the diculty inrebuilding from the rear we are going to use the bottom
fed tuyere and plumb it into the hand cranker via pvc pipeand ttings. The manager had mentioned that the bottom
feed was previously used with a vacumn cleaner, so weexpect a successful set up going this route.
Photo showing existing tuyeres with rear horizontal feed and bottom feed option.
The brickwork is generally in good condition although the
rear sheet metal is badly corroded. We can source somesheet metal for the back at a later date.
The shop anvil is a Peter Wright, and is in pretty goodcondition.
'Peter Wright' Anvil
Photo courtesy of Keith Clarke
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Angaston Forge
Our last visit in January proved to be a fairly quiet
day. Chris, myself and Jeanette braved the heat of
the weather to re up the front forge. Tina Herd, our
newest member, came along to do some forging.
Tina set out to make a set of light weight tongs.
While the crowds were small, we had a couple of
interesting fellows stop by. Firstly, fresh o the
plane from California, was Milo Johnson. Milo is a
retired blacksmith who was involved with the
Californian Blacksmiths Association for many years.He and his partner are visiting Australia to take in
the country.
Milo Johnson chats with Chris Carter over a fresh lit forge re.
Another chap who wandered in from the heat was
Shayne Reschke. It turns out Shayne and Chris have
some common friends (not surprising for any one
who knows Chris). Shayne was keen to get back
into forging and is happy to join up with A.B.A.S.A.
I happily supplied him with a membership form.Hopefully, we'll see Shayne down the road.
As the afternoon progressed, Tina knuckled down
to forging. With the help of Chris and yours truly,
she turned out a nice pair of at nose tongs. Tina's
aim is to make a useful collection of tongs for her
forge and would love to attend our next tong clinic
later on this year.
Tina with her freshly forged and riveted tongs...
not bad for a rst set!
During our visit, I went down to the Angaston
town center with the Doddridge Forge
coordinator, Dean Messner, to inspect the statue of
St Michael.
Unfortunately, the statue has su ered from
vandalism and has had the bronze sword snapped
o at the handle. This is the second occurrence of
vandalism, in fact.
Dean is interested in having us make up a new
sword to t to the existing handle and fashion it so
that it can be xed at both ends to prevent further
damage.
After taking a few photos and discussing the task
with Geo Barnes, it would seem that a stainless
steel blade would probably be the best option as a
replacement.
Drawings are currently underway to formulate a
plan of attack for the making of it. The blade will
require a guard to be forged and the main blade to
be ground to shape.
cont:-
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The statue of St Michael was designed by Mr C.H.
Angus, who headed the contributions with £300 .
The statue cost a total of £1000. It is hoped that
this project, for the benet of AngastonCommunity, will also aid in publising the excellent
work performed by the volunteers at Doddridge
Forge and put A.B.A.S.A on the map.
There is a lot of planning required before
commencing work and I hope to report on the
progress as time goes by. I will close by asking all
of our members to consider volunteering for an
afternoon at the Doddridge forge. The opportunity
to work with the original equipment, shouldn't bemissed. Speaking of which, April so far, has been a
very busy time for the volunteers. There is a slew of
buses booked by Endeavour Tours to visit the
forge. Ron and the volunteers have been running
the forge as a static display as the visit times are
brief and having a working smith present at all
times was not achievable.
Bon Accord Forge The forge at the Bon Accord Museum was built in
1859 along with mine oces, carpenters shop and
managers residence. The National Trust restored
the facility on 1986, and, as it stands currently, is in
excellent condition.
On behalf of A.B.A.S.A., Terry Johnson and myself
made a pilgrimage to the forge on April 21 to
check out the facilities and to establish whether
our members could access the forge and operate iton open days and other special events. After
having a chat with Alan Kendal, the manager of the
Burra visitors center, we embarked on a tour of the
forge.
e Bon Accord Forge
A nicely layed out working area.
There is a bellows and vacumn blower to assist withair supply. The forge is all brick with a side draught
tuyere. After looking over the facilities, Terry sought
out Paul Marsson, the National Trust manager, to
seek permission for us to attend the forge. Paul was
very keen to have us operate the forge and
demonstrate our skills to the visiting public. At this
stage, Terry will be our contact member with the
Trust in Burra and we should get plenty of notice on
when open days and other events may be available
to us in the near future. This is a great opportunity for
our members to come up and spend the day forging
in the fair town of Burra. If you have any enquiries
contact Terry Johnson.
After completing a tour of the Burra heritage trail,we arrived at the museum and had a close look atthe working parts of the forge. We found thateverything is in great condition and fully functional.
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Designing with RHINOCEROS
Drawing out your work, is part and parcel of the
Blacksmiths cra. Whether it be a chalk sketch on a
concrete
oor, or sketching on a large piece of paper,you will have invariably had to commit pen to paper,
so to speak. I guess everyone has their favourite ways
of performing this task.
Drawing is a way of communicating your design,
both for yourself and the customer. Unfortunately,
not everyone is gied with the ability to draw an
accurate portrayal of their ideas and communicate
them to the customer.
Of all the mediums available to us as Blacksmiths,
using a computer to create a design seems to be fairly rare. In my travels and conversations amongst other
smiths, the computer is one of their least favourite
tools in the forge. I have heard various reasons for
people not taking up the option, but I won't go in to
details in this article. What I hope to show, is that
designing your work in a CAD package can enable
you to accomplish two things very well. You will have
an accurate plan to forge to and the added benet of a
bill of materials that can enable you to work out
materials required, weights and volumes, center of gravities if required, and a picture of your design to
show your customer.
e computer soware I have been using for the last
ten years, is called Rhinoceros 3D Design, or Rhino,
for short.
I have used other soware, such as Autocad and Pro
Engineer amongst many others, and I have found
Rhino to be the easiest to use and one of the cheapest
to buy.Rhino started out as an added extra for Autocad and
soon became a stand alone piece of soware that
utilises NURBS technology as it's basis.
e main use I draw from Rhino is in the initial
design concept. Rhino allows ideas to be drawn to
scale and once a single element, such as a scroll, is
created, it can be copied and manipulated over and
over again. In fact, you can build a collection of
elements and use them across many projects. Itemssuch as scrolls, twists, basket twists etc can be
available as a drag and drop, so to speak.
As an example, Here is the steps needed to create a
simple basket twist.
Step 1.
Create an outline in 2D
Step 2.
Extrude the shape into 3D
Step 3.Twist the feature 90
degrees and copy it around
360 degrees.
is model took just over
one minute to create.
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The only other consideration is the shape of the rivet
head. There are a multitude of shapes, from at head,
round head and pan head, then artistic variations as
well. Flat heads can be achieved using just the
hammer face. Round and Pan head can be formed
with a die tool and artistic faceted heads can beforged with the hammer face and ball. The only
trouble you may have is losing 'em in the re.
How To.............Article and Graphics by Rob Kenning
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RIVETS
We all need them sooner or later and when they
aren' t at hand, it's time to grab a piece of round bar
and forge up a rivet for your newly made tongs or
art work.
Like a lot of items in forging, there is a lot of ways of
making rivets, from dropping the stock into the hole
and hand forming the heads with the ball or face of
a hammer to using fancy rivet tools. The ultimate
way, of course, is to purchase them by the kilo.
However, if you seldom use them, them making
them on the spot is the way to go.
The simplest tool for making rivets is a block of steel
with a hole drilled the length and diameter of the
rivet you wish to produce. For a pair of tongs I would
suggest 8mm diameter for light tongs and 12mm
diameter round pair for medium size. The block of
steel can have a raised tapered surface on the top
to aid in forming the head correctly.
Or conversely, you can make up a rivet block out of aleaf spring.
My personal favorite is a two piece block with a
hinge. I have made it out of 2 pieces of 16mmsquare. The rivet block sits in a rest that doubles as astock extension for longer rivets. This unit makes 12,10, 8 & 6mm rivets.
The length of the rivets is generally accepted as one
and a half times the diameter of the stock at each
end plus the thickness of the items you are riveting.
As an example, if you are riveting 2 pieces of 8mm
stock using 10mm round for the rivet, you would
need to cut the stock at 46 mm.
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Victoria
The Australian Blacksmiths Association Victoria Inc
(A.B.A.Vic Inc) hosted their 20th Anniversary at Mt
Martha in September 2009.
During the weekend they had their members
working on a garden gate, as a prize to be auctioned
at the end of the weekend.
Unfortunately, the weather gods decided that such a
beautiful creation required more time, and promptly
washed out the last day with a lot of rain and
inclement weather.
The team of smiths reached a point of having it
almost completed, but had to bow to the inevitable
and cease work.
Not to be deterred, they carried on construction at
'The Barn', and over the coming weeks, put the
nishing touches to what has turned out to be a real
work of art.
Ther results of all that hard work have paid o well.
Here are a couple of photo's of the nished gate.
The Garden Gate
Close up of the flower
Western Australia
Over in the West, the members of B.A.W.A hosted a
'Hammer In' just recently, at the Dardenup Heritage
Park, 2 hours drive south of Perth.
It was organised by Malcolm Paine, and he and his
wife Audrey, put in a huge e ort to make it the
success that it was. Malcolmsays that it was the
rstproperly organisedHammer-In to be held in W.A.
in more than twenty years. And he'd be right about
that.We had twelve of our members attend and had
eight forges & anvils set up.
The Heritage Park is the culmination of adreamby
the late Gary Brookes and has something like6500
sq. mts. of under cover displays of old agricultural
machinery, ALL completely restored. That includes
an operating steam powered saw mill.
By Brian Keenan President of B.A.W.A.
The B.A.W.A members in a rare group photo.
In other news from Victoria, the Tree Project is still a
work in progress. I understand that forged leaves are
still coming in from all over. Paul Mills, of A.B.A.Vic, is
the co-odinator of the project. There is a website
especially designed to track the progress of the tree
at http://www.treeproject.abavic.org.au/
The tree will contain over 2000 hand forged
leaves and will be at least 9 metres tall in it's nished
form. A searcg is underway for a company that has a
large power hammer, to forge the trunk and
branches from Stainless Steel.
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Western Australia
continuedAnyway, to cut the story short, we were located in a
large modern shed, right along side the saw mill and
had two fantastic days of blacksmithing. The Gary
Brookes Memorial day was held on Sunday (just
gone) when the complex was open to the public. We
had the place to ourselves on Saturday. It was the
rst time I had been there and I was completely
amazed by the size & condition of everything on
display. We had eight forges set up in the large shed
with plenty of room to move. A table was set upwith an display of work from the members.
Some of the work on display, including a Helm, made byMalcolm Paine.
Chain maille, a walking stick (with a forged brasshandle) plus a Rose and Leaves.
The forges
more work......
The crowds.
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New South Wales - A.B.A.N.S.W.
News from N.S.W - The sale of the 'Timbertown' has gone through to new private owners. A.B.A.NSW has
the association headquartered there. There hasn't been any formal communication at the time of
publication, and they are therefore unsure of their position within the pioneer village. This situation has
meant that the planning of any activities is on hold until their tenure is resolved.
On behalf of A.B.A.S.A, I would like to wish A.B.A.N.S.W the best of luck throughout the proceedings.
Keep us posted fella's
There is an association forming in Queensland based around Brisbane. They are currently located at EagleFarm near Brisbane.A 'hammer in' held on Sat 24th October last year, was well attended.Like the rest of us, A.B.A.Qld is a not-for-prot organisation and will gratefully accept any nancial and /orequipment donations to help them get up and running.A web site is currently underway and the contact address for any information is displayed on theBlacksmiths Australia site at http://www.blacksmiths-australia.com/index.htm
There's a break down of their forging days and plenty of pictures.
Mike Dowdall, up at Eagle Farm, has taken up the challenge of getting the association up and running.
Mike had the idea of starting up an association, after having a chat with the ABA Vic members. There usedto be an association at Petrie in the past, but it has since become a private concern. He started o byinviting folks along as a social get together using his own property and tools . He must be doingsomething right, as he has had a few get togethers and had 5 or 6 people come along to his hammer in's. Ibelieve he has a regular group to his meets and a few enquiries through the internet. it is surprising how it
snowballs, once the word gets around. Atthe moment, Mike is chasing up suppliersfor coke and tools and keeping an eye onevents in the southern states.
Queensland - A.B.A.QLD
EDITORS NOTE:- If you have a Blacksmiths group in your neck of the woods, let us know. anks,Rob
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Blacksmith Doris – the second coming.Article and Photographs by Kirstie Stewart
The second Doris Day was held at 'The Barn' in Bundoora, home of the Artistic Blacksmiths
Association of Victoria. In order to ensure everyone has a thorough grounding in all skills,
the day was run more formally than the rst Doris Day, which was more of a ‘come and try
blacksmithing’ event. We began with a forge-lighting talk and demonstration by Steve and
then everyone lit their own forges in preparation for drawing down points and making
eyes.
e Doris's and helpers
e double forges at the Barn
are made of brick and have
side air inlets.
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After completing the required tasks, we had time to practise techniques and skills of our
own choosing. Nick demonstrated a blown-over scroll and a bolt-end scroll. This was
formed di erently to the way I’d been taught, with the bolt being tightly scrolled and
forge-welded rather than being formed by shaping and rounding the upset end of the
steel. Nick and Steve red up the newly repaired Bradley power hammer – quite an event,as it has been out of action for a long time, and Sophie worked on cutting and shaping a
piece of plate for a personal art piece she is working on.
Many thanks to all concerned for making this a successful day.
The next Doris Day will be held at the Barn at the end of May. Mark the weekend in your
calendars, Dorises, it’s denitely worth the trip to Victoria.
A section of the fence outside the Barn
shows various combinations of twists, splits
and scrolls.
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Chris Carter and myself had the very good fortuneto have the company of Steve Christensen onSunday afternoon at Dodderidge Forge. Steve is a
regular visitor to South Australia, and makes thepilgrimage from Long Island, Caliornia, every twoyears.
We caught up with Steve one day before he headsfor the Blue Mountains. Steve is an LA Countyreman and paramedic who held the trade of NavyShipwright in his younger days. During his time inthe US Navy he learnt the trade of blacksmithingand many other facets of shipwright work, and hashis own business as a designer in wood and metal.Steve currently manages and operates the forge atRancho Los Alimatos in California between restation shifts, and is responsible for all restorationwork on the ranch. This includes the homestead,gardens, wagons and museum pieces.While working at the ranch, Steve teaches and runsa small team of Blacksmiths in the restoration work and the forging of saleable items for the Ranchogift shop. Consequently, he has a keen sense inknowing what takes the public eye, when it comes
to forged items.
We took Steve back in time, to the DoddridgeForge, for the afternoon. He soon became familiarwith the forge and bellows, and forged out a
couple of pieces inno time atall. He alsoheld thecrowd
transxedas heelded abarrage of questionson thetechniquesand tricksto workingwith metal.
Steve had a few handy tips to show us in themanagement of re and also hammer control forspreading the metal during the making of leaves.
His method of forming a bee hive in the re andcontrolling the re by using water to keep theoutside of the re sealed was a very handy skill.At the end of the day, our consumption of cokewas reduced by at least a third of what we wouldnormally use. That can only be good news withthe rising cost of coke.
Keeping the centre of the re hot by keeping the outside wet.
We wish Steve and his wife the best of luck with the
rest of his trip and look forward to keeping in touchand catching up with him in two years time.
Article and pictures by Rob Kenning.
Their was plenty of questions from the visitors.
Steve and Chris at the forge .
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A B A S A L A T E S T N E W S
8/7/2019 The Bellows Issue03
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Useful Sites and Suppliers
http://www.metalartistforum.com/
All styles of metalcraft information
http://www.iforgeiron.com/forum/
All styles of Blacksmith information
http://www.artmetal.com/index.php
Social networking for the metal arts
http://bawa.webkroll.com/
Blacksmiths Association Western Australia
Australian Blacksmiths Association Victoria
http://www.abavic.org.au/
http://www.baba.org.uk/
British Artist Blacksmiths Association
http://www.abana.org/
Artist Blacksmiths Association of America Inc
Blacksmiths Associations
Blacksmiths Information and Forums
http://www.artistblacksmith.com/
David Robertson (Ontario Artist Blacksmith)
Blacksmiths Supplies
Stirling Fuel SuppliesMount Barker Rd Cnr Gould Rd, STIRLING, SA 5152
Phone: (08) 83392021
Metalcorp Steel285 Grand Junction Road OTTOWAY SA 5013
Phone: (08) 8301 3777Email: [email protected]
Southern Steel Supplies
69- 71 O'Sullivan Beach Rd LONSDALE SA 5160Phone: 1300 302 993
Horse Shoes 'R' Us9 Alabar Crs GLOBE DERBY PARK SA 5110
Phone: (08) 8281 0689
Fantech Pty Ltd17A Seaforth Avenue SOMERTON PARK SA 5044
Phone:(08) 83770502
EBM Blowers17/ 2 Portrush Rd PAYNEHAM SA 5070
Phone: (08) 88363544
If you have any contacts and web sites you
would like to have included, contact the
Secretary.
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