(you'll need this to read the .pdf files used after
Feb 2004)Newsletters and Meetings
(you'll need this to read the .pdf files used after
Feb 2004)
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Balcones Forge meets once a month on the last Saturday of the month. Meetings usually begin at 9:00 AM and last most of the day. Meeting locations are announced in the monthly newsletter.
Trade Item
Each month a "trade item" is announced before the meeting.
Participants create their own version of the trade item and, at the meeting, a
drawing is held to exchange the items randomly. In other words, you go
home with somebody else's creation. It's a lot of fun...and it sharpens
your skills. You end up making stuff you would NEVER make on your own.
(November's newsletter was lost in cyberspace)
March 2004
(this time it's a PDF file....sorta big but much nicer
looking)
October 2003
No online newsletter this time. Meeting at John Crouchet's new shop
near Marble Falls.
John Crouchet
Sycamore Creek Ranch
5828 Ranch Road 1431
East Marble Falls, Texas 78654
John's phone: 830-798-3710
If you come into Marble Falls from Austin or San Antonio, watch for the Colorado River. Once you cross the river into town, start counting the stoplights. The fifth stoplight will be RR 1431. Turn east (right) onto RR 1431, toward Lago Vista and Cedar Park. You will go 5.2 miles to our gate. At about five miles you will pass CR 341, which goes off to your left. Then you will go up a long, winding hill. At the very crest of the hill, suddenly turn left into our gate. This will surprise the heck out of whoever is tailgating you! Please keep the gate closed because there are cattle in this pasture. Go down our driveway and take the first possible right turn. You will follow this road across two cattle guards and past our green cabin, through another gate, and 1/4 mile further to the blacksmith shop.
See y'all there at 9am on the 25th.
What's the trade item? Yes, it is a hook.
August 2003
No online newsletter this time. August meeting will be Saturday, the
23rd, starting at 9:00AM at Wayne
Kirkpatrick's shop in Kingsland, TX.
2810 Hwy 1431 West (1/4 mile past Ace Hardware on the right...if you're coming
from Marble Falls)
Trade item: a critter
June 2003
Meeting Sat 28th 9:00AM at John Graham's shop in Geronimo, TX.
(directions to John's shop)
May 2003
May 17th (a week early) at Larry Crawford's shop in
Marble Falls. No trade item, we work on tools to donate to the IronFest
auction.
April 2003
Heritage Homestead in Elm Mott, just north of Waco
June 2002
Newsletter
(photos from the Jun 2002 meeting)
May 2002
Meeting will be at Wayne Kirkpatrick's shop in Kingsland TX
2810 Hwy 1431 West (1/4 mile past Ace Hardware on the right)
May 25th, 9:00 AM
trade item: a flower
April 2002
Meeting will be at John Horrigan's shop in Burnet TX
433 Twin Creek Dr. (512) 756-7545
Knifemaking!
February 2002
Newsletter
(photos from the
Feb 2002 meeting)
November 2001
Meeting will be at Larry Crawford's shop in Marble Falls, TX
November 17th at 9:30 AM
John Crouchet will do a flypress demo and Shannon Wright will do some forging
for us.
Trade Item: a wishbone
(directions to Larry Crawford's shop)
October 2001
Meeting will be at Johnny Stout's shop in New Braunfels, TX
October 27th at 9:30 AM
Johnny is inviting some other area knifemakers to join in and forge a few blades
with us.
Trade Item: a drawer pull
(directions to Johnny Stout's shop)
September 2001
Meeting will be at Bob Pheil's shop, 200 Post Oak Dr., Llano TX 78643
September 29th at 9:00 AM
Trade item: an "iron butterfly"
(directions to Bob's place)
August 2001
Meeting was at Tom-the-Blacksmith's shop in Wimberley
photos