The Gulf Coast Blacksmith Association has been serving the blacksmith and metal artist community since May 1999. GCBA specializes in teaching and sharing information about traditional blacksmithing and metal work. We are an affiliate of ABANA.
Our goal is to provide you with useful information about our organization. We invite you to browse around the site. If you have comments or questions you may type them in the Leave a Reply box at the bottom of the page. Or go to the Contact page for complete information and to download a Membership Application.
GCBA meetings are held on the fourth Sunday of each month. Any exceptions will be announced here and on the Events page.
Our next monthly meeting will be Sunday, January 24, 2010 at Buddy’s Shop. (We have no scheduled meetings in December due to the holidays.)
On our Events page you will find upcoming blacksmithing events and demonstrations, and reports on recent events.
On our News page you can easily scroll down through all current GCBA news postings.
On our Gallery page you will find examples of our member’s work varying from the most simple hooks to working tools and items of art. Included are photos of events where our members have demonstrated our craft and a growing set of mug shots of all of our members.
On our Projects page you will find How To instructions and Tips of all kinds, as well a links to interesting online sources of information and demonstrations.
On our Library pages you will find a listing of online videos, DVDs and video tapes covering a host of subjects. These can be rented at reasonable cost to all members.
If you can’t find what you want in our Library try our Links page which will send you directly to the websites of the numerous Organizations, Affiliates and Suppliers.
On our Market page you will find sources for blacksmith materials, tools and other products of our members and related sources. We will appreciate your contacting them for your needs.
Whether you are a novice or experienced Smith we invite you to join us to learn or to pass on the skills of the trade!
For more information and a GCBA Membership Application go to our Contacts page.
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March 8, 2009 at 12:25 pm |
Thank you very much for adding my pictures to the Gallery. I would love to see more members submit pictures of their work. We have a lot of talent in our group and I think it would benefit everyone if we could see what they are doing.
Sid
March 8, 2009 at 4:44 pm |
With this new web site it is easy for members to submit photos of their work. See “How To” at the bottom of the Gallery Page.