What are Your Thoughts on the ABANA Curriculum?
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- Опубліковано 30 кві 2024
- The art of blacksmithing can provide many opportunities for furthering you education. The ABANA curriculum is one option available And is well worth looking into. But I don't think it should be considered a required course or the final word on blacksmithing skills.
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Certified is more a thing for people that claim to be professional instructors. So skills are only developed by need and practice.
You nailed it when you said "Gatekeeping"... plenty of super talented folks out there like yourself that don't have the time to get some credential or letters after their name.
I've never had a customer ask me if I was ABANA certified, or an ABA Mastersmith. Happily, they judge the quality of my work, not my certification level. That said, I'm an ABANA member, and think their training is excellent. I just don't need the paper to validate the quality of my work.
Always being a student !! always learning and gaining knowledge.. certifications ? at this point in Life and your wisdom and history ? really... I like your thoughts about what works for you,, most PHD's in Blacksmithing couldn't shovel the amount of coal you have burned ....and the metal you have beaten on ... Some people watch other people work, some people talk about work, and then old John just makes stuff happen.... I love that you have FORGED your life on your terms...
100% agree ABANA curriculum is a tool to guide education not I license to judge blacksmith cred. I teach level one and two and I try to stress this with students.
You answered my questions wonderfully, I appreciate you taking the time to do so. I agree that it is one way of doing things but not the only way by far. I've started down that path of education just to expand what I have learned through trial and error and picking up from books and videos, like yours. It's true it's irrelevant just to have a paper say you have these skills, or use it as a way to gatekeep the craft and that's not anything I was trying to imply so please don't take it that way. But I respect what you have to say on these subjects and just wanted to hear your thoughts on the subject, mnay thanks again!
Excellent video and information. Thank you for putting this out.
I teach what ever I can after learning it. And by that logic, I teach a lot. I love relaying every single bit of info I have
John, I used a Chevy Truck rotary to make my firepot. It has around a 4" depth in the pot. I coal from two sources one is Rich Hill Mo. And from BAM. The Rich Hill Coal is pretty bad for clinker, but if all your doing is heating and forging it does well. And it's cheap 4.25 for a 25 lbs box. If I'm forge-welding something I use The Bam Coal.
Fully agree, John!
Would recommend break rotor that has the interior built emergency break. Little deeper pot but not too deep. Had some and tossed them before I started blacksmithing. Was bummed
Frank Turley always maintain..there are no master blacksmiths we are always learning and there is no finite conclusions to the craft.
I've learnt a lot from you I've been a boilermaker for 35 years all aspects of fabrication and steel work I look forward to your videos cheers
So glad I subscribed to this channel, always great information. Hard to believe smithing was once a secretive, closely guarded profession.
Looking at the European cathedral door hinges latches and ornamental iron work from centuries past. They were craftsmen who worked their way through the ranks of their guilds.
Thank you for your answers to these questions, good questions and answers. I whole heartedly agree with about certifications, I am a truck mechanic, service repair technician, and I have worked with several ase certified people, some were very good mechanics, some i wouldn't allow to touch a young kids little tricycle. Certificates simply mean a person is good at taking tests. The real way to judge a person's capabilities is to check out their work. I myself have piles of certificates, I don't put much stock in them, the fact that the place I work at has customers that specifically asks for myself or one of the other techs to work on their truck speaks volumes to me. Bottom line is check a person's work
These are some really good questions! Thanks compadre for some answers. I'll get out there and try some of them
Some very good information for folks, thank you John. Be well.
Great well thought out thoughts John 😊
When i was getting started i down loaded the 16 lessons from the Abana website and did those. The Journeyman qualifications stuff.