[Matthew Stagmer]

Please consider joining us for the 2009 Fire and Brimstone Hammer-In and Smelt on March 21st.-22nd. 2008 in Historic Marriottsville, Maryland

The event will include Jesus Hernandez and Walter Sorrells will once again be our featured demostrators. Additional demonstrators and lectures will be happening all weekend. We will have forging on our power hammers all weekend as well as metal casting. Event will be at our forge (Baltimore Knife and Sword Co.) and the Church/Studio next door (Fire and Brimstone Studio)

Additional confirmed demonstrators we will be working into the schedule include Jeff Pringle, Kerry and Matt Stagmer, Deker, Larry Nowicki. If you are a demonstrator or are planning to come and have something to share, please touch base as we would like to pack in as much information as possible for attendees.

We will be limiting attendance to 50. Registration will be $65 for the entire weekend to offset our costs. Vendors and tailgating is encouraged at no additional fee and will have separate parking, trailers allowed.

Please visit our site [url="http://www.fireandbrimstone.com"]http://www.fireandbrimstone.com[/url]

The site includes accommodations, Schedule, and Artists/Demonstrators.

We will be updating the site often as we confirm additions to the event.

[Matthew Stagmer]

Quick update!

Sword Swallower Dai Andrews will be joining us again for the weekend.

www.swordswallower.com

[Matthew Stagmer]

John Larson of Iron Kiss Hammers as confirmed he will both be there for questions and is bringing an additional hammer.

We run an early prototype Iron Kiss beam hammer and as nice as it is, the production hammers are fantastic.

[Matthew Stagmer]

Matt has just confirmed an important additional demonstrator for the weekend.



Tony Swatton of [url="http://www.swordandstone.com"]Sword and Stone[/url] will be joining us for the entire event.

Tony has been the mainstay of movie weapons and armour for the last 15+ years.

Little known films showcasing his work like....

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
X-Men: The Last Stand
The Legend of Zorro
Constantine
Blade: Trinity
Hellboy
National Treasure
The Scorpion King
Star Trek: Insurrection

and many many more....

Matt tells me he is a hell of a guy and great fun. I personally am quite excited to meet him!

Space is still available at this event. Hopefully we can get the site updated ASAP to show the additions and changes.

The Forest Motel where several people stayed last year has closed! We will be sending additional info to those traveling as to other close accomodations.

-Kerry

[Matthew Stagmer]

I know it's late in the game but I have done a full update on the events website seen here http://www.baltimoreknife.com/brimstone/hammerin/ .

The schedule and artists pages are up-to-date. Still waiting on a few more confirmations that will be updated as soon as we get the OK.

4 more days...Getting excited!

We are outside right now fine tunning the main welding forge, greasing the hammers and setting up a horizontal quench tank for Jeseus.

Got the Waxes prepped for the Bronze casting demo. We wanted to try mini anvils with our logos on the side.


Normally we vaccum cast everything, but the casting machine is on the other side of the property from the forge area so we decided to gravity cast with air vents.



We use these skulls and fists as pommels on all kinds of swords. Tony Cavey sculpted the original anvil in Super Sculpty and made a mold.