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• posted in CBA Events: what would you like to see? from alex bashta III on September 3

  as the southern-education chair {while Beth is of gallivanting around the world}, the topic of instructors training class is being discussed, concerning what to have demoed. mark Aspery has already let me know that 25, January, 2011 would be agreeable with his busy schedule. Beth and i have ideas of…

• posted in Show your stuff: Working too hard from freedomforge. 3 comments, most recently from ironyworks on September 1

  For all you silicon bronze fans out there. First the bad part. I’ll be sweeping it out of the shop for months. The floor just glitters like gold here and there when the light is just right. I used up three filters for my respirator in the last four months,…

• posted in For Sale: Coal for sale - $25 per bag from Walter C. Evans. 2 comments, most recently from alex bashta III on August 5

  I have 60 50Lb bags of Kimmel coal for sale at $25 per bag. Buy one bag or all 60. You can email me at wpevans2@sbcglobal.net, or contact me by phone at (530) 221-2079 to arrange purchase.

• posted in Page Comments: Bill Stone Passes on the Lead of Vista Forge from dowpat. 7 comments, most recently from Mary Jane Verniere on July 22

  News » Bill Stone Passes on the Lead of Vista Forge

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  Posted by Admin on Jul 13, 2010

  Bill Stone, after leading the Vista Forge at the Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum...

• posted in Website Updates: RSS feeds are fixed from Admin on June 24

  I noticed that the forum RSS feeds were not working, they have been fixed and should be working as expected now. The problem was a URL redirection that was adding trailing slashes to the feed URLs, rendering them unrecognizable as feed URLS. Also, Events and Classes now feature RSS feeds…

• posted in CBA Events: CBA Classes in Sebastopol from Herb Upham on June 18

  I teach CBA Basic I-III classes at my shop in Sebastopol on an ongoing basis, two Saturday morning per month. If your are interested please e-mail me at herbu@cds1.net for a schedule and class openings.

• posted in CBA News: ABANA Ring Project from Herb Upham on June 17

  ABANA 2010 sponsored a ring project, Lowell Chaput and I designed and forged a ring for the project. Our ring was selected to be placed in the grill titled Memphis Music. The grill was sold at the conference auction to raise money for ABANA’s education program. Pictures of the ring…

• posted in Methods and Techniques: Do you want to refine your forging skills? from Herb Upham on June 16

  I recomend the Controlled Hand Forging (CHF) lessons on the ABANA web site to anyone who wants to perfect their forging skills. The link is: http://www.abana.org/resources/education/chf.shtml and the information is provided for all to use. Herb Upham

• posted in CBA News: New website, new forum from Admin. 3 comments, most recently from Admin on June 16

  Welcome to the new CBA forum! With the new website came a new forum, and unfortunately the posts from the old forum were not able to be transferred here. We transferred (hopefully) all of the memberships from the previous forum to this new forum, but we might have missed a…

• posted in CBA Events: Demonstrations at El Dorado County Fair from Admin on May 25

  The CBA will be demonstrating at the El Dorado County Fair June 17th – 20th. Demonstrations will include knife making, hatchet making, kitchen utensils and team striking. Come step back in time and see how everyday items were made by your local Blacksmith!

• posted in Help Wanted: Blacksmith Needed - July 25th in Fort Ross from Admin on June 14

  We are looking for a blacksmith – or two – who can set up their gear in the fort compound for the annual Cultural Heritage Day at Fort Ross. We have over 3000 visitors on this one day with over 100 folks in costume but right now we are missing…