Re: [Makers] Abridged summary of north-east-makers@googlegroups.com - 3 updates in 1 topic

[David Papadopoulos]

The Bodgers' association could be helpful in this regard (that's the Northeast section of the Pole-Lathe Turners and Green Woodworkers Association for the unfamiliar; bodgers.org.uk). There are occasional smithing meets over a portable forge during the monthly sessions. I think it's worth asking if there are smithing spaces at Kirkley Hall (Northumberland College), which may have been used for bodging sessions on occasion. A good point of contact may be Maurice Pyle, who did run bodgers courses there, and who runs/ran  the Woodsmith Experience shop and toolmaking operation from Whitley Bay: woodsmith.co.uk. There will be other artisan groups around with blacksmiths among them - so I'd be asking at arts colleges, looking for regional re-enactment groups, rural skills training providers, those sorts of things.

David

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Matty <mattyra...@gmail.com>: Apr 13 02:39AM -0700 Hi all,   I searched through the previous conversations but couldn't find anything relevant and just wanted to ask the question.   Is there facility to do any blacksmith work in the space? Is any ...more

Alistair MacDonald <alistair....@gmail.com>: Apr 13 02:58PM +0100 Hi Matty,   The short answer is that we don't have any blacksmith capabilities. It has been looked at, but sadly it is not viable in our current location. In fact any hot working became complicated ...more

Matty <mattyra...@gmail.com>: Apr 13 01:37PM -0700 Hi Alistair,   Ah that's a shame! No problem, hot working seems to be a problem in a lot of commercial lets now. I'll let you know if I figure anything out and you can share it.   Cheers, ...more

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