Well, I'm finally getting settled in after my summer travels. It's actually been pretty hard to get back on track and go to work every day. House needs painting, need to build a new and larger chicken coop, been a rough year for the bees and so more work there, etc... As for the blacksmithing, part of what I've been doing, is playing with some of the stuff I learned this year. Trying to make the skills my own instead of something abstract I saw. Here's a couple of the dragon like guys I've been working on. No plans for them besides practice. But anyway, what I wanted to post was a sort of follow-up on Rich's comment of Mark Aspery's teaching. So with that, I thought I'd post a few of the classes he's doing on the east coast next year. May 8th through the 12th, he'll be in George teaching Leafwork and Large Joinery Level two western states. June 1st to the 6th, He'll be at Touchstone in Pennsylvania teaching his basic class "Mastering the Fundamentals" Level one western states. June 7th to the 12th, He'll still be at Touchstone, but the class will be an instructors course based on Mastering the Fundamentals. August 16th to the 22nd, He'll be at John Campbell in NC teaching "Mastering the Fundamentals" I'm of course very excited about the classes at Touchstone and John Campbell, as I'll be his assistant for them :-) You can read more about Mark at his web site http://www.markaspery.net/Calendar.html

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