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October 2, 2004
Jerry Baker
demonstrates at
FALL BLACKSMITH'S HAMMERFEST
at
Oldenburg
This Fall we returned to our favorite Oldenburg site at HABA Lifetime Member Kennie Hall's place on Antique Show Weekend Oct 1-3. to bring our forges and have a good time.
Our bi-annual Blacksmith's Hammerfest event at Oldenburg was the weekend of October 2. We featured several special regional demonstrators under a Big Tent Saturday including :
More information is available at the HABA website for the event Blacksmith's Hammerfest.
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Featured Blacksmiths HammerFest Demonstrator
October 2, 2004
Jerry Baker
Louisiana Metalsmiths Association
Statement
I was born in Montana. My grandfather was a homesteader and pioneer. It being 35 miles to town, my grandfather blacksmithed the repairs on the farm as needed. Being too young to remember any of it, it is in my roots and I am still using some of his tools from that shop.
I started blacksmithing in 1997 as a student of Buddy Leonard of Covington, LA. My actual profession is as a farrier which I started in 1967. I've been beating on steel for a very long time but I was always interested in the traditional methods of the great things that previous generations had accomplished with no modern conveniences. The art and beauty of their work is astonishing. (How did they do that?) It has been a great adventure and still fascinates me and occupies most of my thoughts.
I taught a class and now my students are teaching others so in other words there is almost a third generation of teaching in a few short years. One of the greatest honors was being elected president of the Louisiana Metalsmiths Association (http://lametalsmiths.org/) two years ago. We are a very excited group with lots of talent. Some of the membership that was previously taught by me are now teaching other members. We welcome interested persons of both genders and all ages and are extremely willing to teach the traditional methods and share ideas. My main interest is in functional art and in sharing with others.
Demo
My demo will feature making horse heads which can be added to various tools for decorative finials. Here is a sample of what I will be doing and I plan to have every stage to a teachable level. I have received many requests for instruction and so my mission will be to help everyone become horse head builders!
Contact
Jerry Baker
Lafayette, La
(318) 232-7958
jbaker5175@earthlink.net
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Jerry provided a 3 page handout on making horse heads, and a scanned copy (pdf) can be down loaded by clicking Horse Head .
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