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Membership Benefits Membership offers you monthly educational demonstrations at blacksmith shops around the state from October through May. The demonstrations are conducted by experienced members interested in sharing their talents. Before and after the demonstrations there is plenty of time to talk with members who are always ready to share their interest and knowledge in blacksmithing. During the summer months, members enjoy demonstrating for the public at reenactments, art fairs, craft fairs and historic sites. Members receive our newsletter called The Upsetter, four to six times a year. In the newsletter, the group's calendar of events is listed, as well as club communications from officers, articles containing demonstration projects, and how-to projects with varied skill level, tool projects, book reviews, information on association or member activities, safety items and a wide variety of articles from the ABANA affiliate newsletter exchange program. The newsletter also includes items for sale by the members. We have four business meetings throughout the year. The fourth meeting is held in December as an annual Christmas Party, with a pot luck dinner, officer elections and our annual fund raising auction. The auction keeps our dues low and helps fund the newsletter. MABA has a tool loan program. Through the program you may borrow a basic blacksmithing set-up with a coal forge, blower, anvil, hammers and tongs. The purpose is to help get you started so you can see how much fun blacksmithing can be. For more information on the availabilty of the set-up please contact Vice President, Tim Carr. The association also offers two scholarships each year to help further your blacksmithing education. Recipients are asked to write an article about their experience for the newsletter and donate an item for the auction. Download a sample newsletter (9 MB) in pdf. format. Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader, a free download from the Adobe website. (http://www.adobe.com) Member Scholarship Application.pdf Sample projects as originally published in a newsletter: Provided credit is given to the author and the MABA organization, permission is granted to reproduce these plans for non-profit use.
MABA, its officers, members, The Upsetter Newsletter, and MABA website, specifically disclaim any responsiblilty of liability for damages or injuries as a result of any construction, design, use, manufacture, or other activity undertaken as the result of the use or application of information contained in any article in the newsletter or on the website.
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