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Northeast Blacksmiths
Association
Northeast Blacksmiths holds its meets twice a year at the Ashokan Field Campus of New York State. Ashokan Field campus is in Olivebridge, N.Y., several miles west of Kingston, N.Y. The meets are held the first weekend in May and in the first weekend in October every year. The main demonstration is in the blacksmith shop and there is a "Hands On" workshop for beginners.Current Newsletter available near bottom of page
The Blacksmith Shop at Ashokan Field Campus
Directions
Jonathan Nedbor
496 Tow Path
High Falls, NY 12440
Phone:(845) 687-7130
jonned@hvc.rr.com
Jim Stapleford
52 Black Road
Shokan, NY 12481
Phone:(845) 657-8212
spin-smythe@worldnet.att.net
Carl Davison
112 N.Puttcorners Rd.
New Paltz, N.Y. 12561
(845)255-8125
carlrd@worldnet.att.net
Hi, I would like to welcome you to the Northeast Blacksmiths'Association web site. Browse the links on the side or bottom of the page to get to information on educational, upcoming and past events. Our mission is to promote blacksmithing through education and sharing to all those who are interested, be they hobbist, professional or just curious and want to learn more. This is done through demonstrations, workshops and hands on training. Please check out our site, if there are any questions please contact one of our board members through the links or if there are questions or problems with the site please contact me, Larry Brown
Clean Forging Coal Now
Available at Ashokan
Stock up from this new batch at our Fall Meet
Available at Ashokan
Stock up from this new batch at our Fall Meet
FALL 2007 NBA PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
As you read this the plans for the first Northeast Regional Blacksmith Conference are well under way. A core of members from our group have been developing a conference plan that will be an educational and social event to be remembered. We have been working with the New England Blacksmiths Assoc., Blacksmith Guild of Central Maryland, with additional input from the Berkshire Smiths and the Capitol District Smiths, to design a 4 day conference which will be held at the Ashokan Campus in early September 2008.
One of the unique factors of this event is that it is a cooperative venture with these other regional groups. We met with reps from these groups last Spring and it has already generated a great deal of interest, activity and group spirit. It promises to be a great event that we will get to host at our home site of the Ashokan Field Campus. This will surely make up for our aborted effort to host the ABANA conference.
We hope to have 4 scheduled demonstrators, a teaching station, trade show with tool, book vendors and more, an exhibit hall, classes and seminars. Our aim is to make this an affordable event to attend. To that end there will be a choice of accommodations from bunkhouse to camping, with or without a food plan. Attendees can also elect to stay at area motels and eat off campus.
We will of course need a team of volunteers to make this runs smoothly. There will be many of the same tasks we were looking at for the ABANA conference that will be performed by volunteers from our group as well as from the other participating groups. Expect discussions regarding this and other news at our Fall Meeting the end of September.
By the way, some of you may have noticed the work of James DeMartis on the cover of the Spring issue of the Anvil's Ring. James is a member of our group and lives on Long Island. Congratulations James, nice job.
Hope to see you all at Ashokan,
Hello All,
Jonathan Nedbor
2008 Spring Meeting of the
Northeast Blacksmiths Association
at Ashokan
Northeast Blacksmiths Association
at Ashokan
Trained at metalworking trade school in Europe and now works in Wappinger's Falls. Joe has been a bladesmith for over forty years; he is a voting member of the Knife Makers Guild; earned "Master Smith" rating from American Bladesmith Society.
For more information on the demonstrator and some pictures of his work click HERE
The dates for the Spring meet are May 2, 3 & 4, 2008
Joe Szilaski:
This email list allows you to send an email to all of the members of NBA with a single address: nba@northeastblacksmiths.org. You need to be a member to use the list. If you would like to sign-up, please go to the List Information page. If you want to read what has already been posted please go to the Archive page.
This email list allows you to view and participate in discussions about the upcoming Atlantic Coast Blacksmith Conference in the summer of 2008: acbc@northeastblacksmiths.org. You need to be a member to use the list. If you would like to sign-up, please go to the List Information page. If you want to read what has already been posted please go to the Archive page.
They can email Jonathan Nedbor for more info.
For information on The Ashokan Field Campus go to,
www.ashokanfieldcampus.org
and to Contact Tim Neu, Director,
neutim@newpaltz.edu
To view the Ahsokan Newsletter click,
Ashokan Spring 2006
Check out the 2007 Schedule Of
Blacksmithing Classes
At Peters Valley Craft Center
Newsletter posting!
These files may be large
Click here to download part 1 of the newsletter.
Click here to download part 3 of the newsletter.
Use Adobe Acrobat reader to open files (PDF)
To see pictures of a demonstration Jonathan Nedbor did in the Spring of 2003 for the New Jersey Blacksmiths,
Click Here.
To check out the New Jersey Blacksmiths web site click Here.
For a listing of the next meet and
demonstrator go to the Events page.
To register for the next meet and to join us visit the Join Us! page.
For information on the next forging contest and the winner
of the last meets contest, see the Forging Contest page.
For pictures of the last meet and
members gallery go the Gallery page.
To see if any members have posted articles for sale
see the Sale page.
For information on the "Hands On Workshop",click HERE!
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