Meeting announcement!

Our September 24th meeting will be held at Mike Cataldo’s shop (Aggressive Metalworks)

1485 Groverors corners Rd.
Central Bridge,NY 12035

12 noon to 4 pm. There will be no official demonstration, but there will be several forging stations available for you to work on your own projects, or start a new one! Come out and have some fun! If you have any questions, feel free to call me (Paul) 518-763-7296 or email phc2112@yahoo.com

Dear Blacksmiths -

I am reaching out to see if anyone in the nearby area has enough capacity to conduct a half-day blacksmithing course for 23 people (max). We could also break down the group into two separate days if need-be. I'm looking to have a team building event. I am a Manufacturing Engineering Manager at Philips Healthcare (Latham). We do a lot of metal work here so I'm thinking this would be an awesome opportunity for my team to learn about the roots of metal working through blacksmithing. Please reach me at: nicholas.viscio@philips.com Thank you for your consideration of this. -Nick

Hello all! in an effort to pay more attention to this website, I thought I would recap our most recent CDBA meeting. The demonstration was Paul doing a canister Damascus billet without the use of any welding or power equipment. Fish hooks and 1084 powdered steel were stuffed into a 1 inch thin wall square tube, the end was folded over and the whole thing was heated to forge welding temperature. The tube was beaten into a solid billet of pattern welded steel (Damascus). The canister got a bit toasty in the forge, and despite using white out, the can welded to the steel. I will forge it out to bar stock on the power hammer, and bring it in for show and tell for the August meeting.

As of yet there has not been a volunteer to do the demo for the August meeting, but I will keep you all posted!

join us at Pat’s Forge in the Normanskill farm Sunday April 30th Bryan Salisbury Wil be doing a brass casting demonstration. Demo starts at noon and the meeting ends at 4:00. We will also have the signup sheet for the Cooperative Extension demos available to pick your days!

Steve Gurzler has offered to host the November CDBA meeting at the Adirondack Folk School. For those of you who aren't familiar with The Folk School, it is located in Lake Luzerne, NY. They have a very nice blacksmithing area, with multiple forging stations, and I have been informed, this area is now heated! It's roughly an hour or so drive from albany, but it will be worth it. Please let me know if there is interest in this, so I may inform Steve of our acceptance of his gracious offer!