Tunnel Mill Craft Calendar, 2011
Archived: November 8, 2011
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Build and Bake in a Portable Brick Oven May 7 and May 14, 2011
NOTE: May 7 class is full. By popular demand, we just added a class for May 14. Call now.
Join David S. Cargo at Tunnel Mill to learn how to build a portable stacked-brick oven.
After the oven is built, it will be fired up while students learn how to make dough for flatbreads, pizza and bread.
Bake (and eat) all these in the brick oven.
Class runs 9am-5pm , both on May 7, and on May 14, 2011 Bring light sack lunch, we will sample products made around mid afternoon.
You will leave with knowledge in baking and building and also plans. See you there.
Preregistration is necessary.
Fee to be collected at class is $60.00 per student.
Tom Latane' May 20, 21 & 22, 2011
Door Hardware - A spring latch
Students will forge a spring latch with a ring handle. The forge welded ring handle will be mounted on a shaft
which will pass through a chisel-cut escutcheon, (the door), and then a chisel cut latch plate and be secured to a
forged cam which will lift the latch bar. The latch bar will be under pressure from a spring, forged as part of the
staple which retains the bar against the latch plate. The spring provides a more positive catch than a gravity latch.
Parts will be forged, filed, and fitted.
Please call or email if you have any questions and to register for class.
Bernhard Heer June 3,4 & 5, 2011
Class cancelled due to an opportunity that Bernhard received to work
on a 6-7 month project in Beijing, China. We will try again, and Bernhard
will only have more to share.
Roger Degner, June 11 & 12th, 2011
Roycroft hammered copper vase
Quarters mokume
Pipe forging--from chili peppers to flowers
Peter Ross classes.. June 20, 21, & 22 and June 24, 25 & 26.
We are discussing the possibility of tool making for the first 3 day class..more than likely a hacksaw.
The second 3 day class would be making a Betty Lamp with a flip lid, or Bracket part II
(covering water leaves, flat leaves, more forge welding)
Don't miss this opportunity to study with this Wiliamsburg Blacksmith.
We still have 3 openings in Peter's class.
If you missed it last year give it a try this year.
Mike Blue.. Damascus II...July 8, 9 & 10.
Damascus II
This class is intended to spend time in further pattern development beyond simple welding of a flat laminate and the
incised patterns discussed in the previous class. Any beginners should really try to keep their projects within this
domain. The complex patterns discussion will be beneficial but not an expectation.
-We will discuss the development of the original mosaic designs found in European shotguns and the concepts involved in
upset patterns like the current favorite "W" pattern and it's many variations including parquet development and the
techiques to bring out that pattern on the surface of the billet. Another subject will be powder metal mosaic forms.
This will include tool development for pattern manipulation and assistance in welding.
-Anyone who wishes to explore the W pattern can bring along a lower layer count billet they prepared before the class.
There will be less time talking and more time forging this go around. We're moving up into complex patterns where
materials preparation will require a lot more time and the possibility of weld failures more likely.
Nathan Robertson..August 6, 2011
Heat Treated Hammer Class
Choose your hammer, shape & size.
Doug Wilson.. 2 Classes: September 8, 9, 10 and September 11, 12 & 13, 2011
Lighting with Electricity and Mica: September 8, 9 and 10, 2011
Drawing and Design: September 11, 12 and 13, 2011
Doug demonstrated at the 2010 Guild of Metalsmiths Conference.
He has been a metalsmith since 1972, operating his forge on Little Deer Isle, Maine, since 1981. He produces primarily
commissioned work, functional, architectural and sculptural; contemporary designs utilizing traditional joinery.
Doug has demonstrated and taught basic through advanced forging, drawing and design workshops and how to make proposals to
clients and client relations for nearly thirty years throughout the U.S. and Canada, including workshops at Haystack,
Penland, Peters Valley, Campbell Folk School, numerous ABANA chapter events and six ABANA national conferences.
Doug's work has been included in numerous national exhibitions and publications including The Contemporary Blacksmith,
Fireplace Accessories, "Anvil's Ring", and "Metalsmith" Magazine.
TUNNEL MILL FALL GATHERING
OCTOBER 1-2, 2011
It's that time of the year and we would like to
invite you to the mill
There will be plenty of interesting demos......................
(or just come and hang out, you are bound to learn something)
Watch or lend a helping hand making Wootz
We will be running the 500lb little giant
Tie die a white t-shirt or bleach a black one
(bring your own or I will have some available for sale)
We will be constructing a brick bread oven
with samples available, there will be room for assistance
Wine & Cheese
Saturday at 4:00 pm.
SHOW & TELL
Bring something for show & tell
Bring a quilt to hang up in the barn
We would like to honor BILL FIORINI
We would like to share pictures, stories or pieces of his work.
We hope to have musical entertainment on Saturday evening.
Directions to Tunnel Mill: Tunnel Mill is located 20 miles south of Rochester. Take Hwy 63 out of Rochester to Stewartville, turn east on Hwy 30 to County Rd 1 (approx 5.5 miles).
Turn south on County Rd1 Follow CO RD 1 6.5 miles to Tunnel Mill on the left side of CO RD
Call about camping on the grounds. 507-378-4983 or 507-289-4189, John or Carol.
Lodging available in Spring Valley, 5 miles further south on CO RD 1.
Shady Rest 507-346-2625---Spring Valley Motel & Suites-507-346-7788
REGISTRATION- Please fill out and return by September 20, 2011
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Name_____________________________Phone #_______________
Weekend admission fee per person $10.00_____ Daily admission $5.00____________
Meals available for these costs....
Saturday morning ________persons @ $4.00 Saturday Lunch ______persons @7.50
Saturday evening_________persons @ 12.50 Sunday Breakfast_____persons @6.00
Sunday lunch____________persons @ 7.50
POTLUCK-FRIDAY EVENING-WEEKEND RATE--$45.00 PER PERSON
Send Registration to Carol Adams/Tunnel Mill
4505 Hwy 63 N
Rochester, MN 55906
Questions: call 507-289-4189 or 507-378-4983
NO PETS PLEASE
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Tom Latane'..October 14, 15th & 16th, 2011
Norse Lock
Students will construct a lock which is opened by a key that compresses a pair of springs to release the shackle.
This type of lock, which can be used in many of the same applications as a padlock, has a body constructed of
hammered sheet iron secured with tenoned ribs and brazed in the forge.
Options for key variations will be discussed.
New for 2012
Tom Latane'.. April 20, 21 & 22nd, 2012
Seventeenth Century Battle Axe or Hewing Hatchet
Students will forge an axe with a tapered rectangular eye socket. This shapely early form is made up of three pieces
rather than the two used to produce an axe with a simple wrapped eye.
Parts will be forged to shape from 1/4" and 1/2" thick mild steel, forge welded together and further forged to refine.
A high carbon steel bit will be welded between layers of low carbon steel, shaped, hardened and tempered. Students
wishing to create a hewing hatchet may leave the blade thicker and less broad with the high carbon steel welded to one
side rather than in the center of the edge.
The low carbon body of the axe will remain soft enough that it can be decorated cold with punches (at home if there
is not time in class) as the early ones were.
Class Contact Information
For more information on any of the classes contact us at
jc-adams@msn.com, or call 507-289-4189 John or Carol Adams.
We are located in southern Minnesota. Tunnel Mill was an old water powered mill. Built in 1869.
Retired in the late 1920's..
Located on the Bear River north of Spring Valley, MN.
Wooded 50 acres with a stream that runs through it.
Now, it's a place for crafts people and friends to congregate, relax and learn some of our forgotten crafts.
Watch for more classes!!
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