HABA Forge Welding June 20, 2009

June 20, 2009

Forge Welding Workshop

featuring

Tee Hines
at Bucksnort Forge in Magnolia

For June we are going to gather at Tee Hines shop in Magnolia to try our hand at forge welding. Tee will be demonstrating the basic techniques associated with forge welding along with showing us several types of welds. The different parts of the welding process like upsetting, making a scarf, flux and so on will be discussed.

This is a hands-on work shop with the goal of teaching you the basics of forge welding. Hopefully you will leave this meeting with enough knowledge to practice at home and expand your skills. If you practice you will get better. Being able to forge weld greatly increases the scope of forging projects you can manage.

One project we will try to complete is a Fire Place Poker forged from 3/8” square bar with a faggot weld end. If you have another project you would rather try, have at it!

The website for the meeting is habairon.org/June09/.