We had a wonderful time! Great food, creative backyard science and the Crew from Alabama!
Dinner was great, and Rich stopped by with the new signs for the car. Kyrsten did a great job designing them.
Look close, there is a ghost on board.
The first weekend in oct the CBA gets together at Fritz Hagist to camp, cook, drink and…. oh yea blacksmith. We call it Oktoberfest.
Lead Demonstrator ~ Frank Turley, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Frank Turley has taught blacksmithing for more than 30 years at his school. Some of the biggest names in blacksmithing have studied under his tutelage. He will demonstrate Hispanic Gothic “claraboya” and a Mexican “aldaba” among other things, and will bring copies of the book he co-wrote on colonial Spanish blacksmithing. www.turleyforge.com
Workshop Demonstrator ~ Dan Romo, Oakland, California
Dan romo’s specialty is applying patinas to the work of other metal smiths. He uses cold and hot chemicals with a clear paste wax finish. He will be demonstrating his techniques and provide opportunities for us to try them out. www.studioromo.com
CBA Education Workshop ~ Mark Aspery, Springville, California
Welded collar & tools & math (as on Level III grill). Forging set-ups will be available for beginners between sessions.
The weekend before a smaller group sets up the whole thing, then we cook, drink, and shoot the shit.
Here we are at beer:30 after a hard day in the woods setting up showers, tents, a full industrial kitchen, pig roaster, and Oyster cooker! I’m looking forward to this weekend with Kyrsten Zolie and all the CBA crew.
Todd’s benefit was very successful. The group raised over $35,000 which will make bring Todd home this week possible.
I want to thank my gear sponsors:
Alan Anzalone, Melanie Shapiro, Joe Koches, Fritz Hagitz, Christopher Brooks, Jim Austin, Jason McClean, Rich & Kim and everyone that has bought a drink at the Boiler Bar Over the last year!
Wall of Gears from Scott Beale on Vimeo.
The Big Wheel 15′ Drag racer built by myself a few years back took 1st place (design) at the races held at Ace Auto in SF. Alan and I both got a chance to race and we actually won a race! We strongly believe we lost the rest of the races due to the wind, uphill course, lack of quality 110v power, wrong t-shirt, lack of support form our sponsors, not enough NITROUS, no cheerleaders, too little red, white and blue, and the fact that we ran the bar. Next race we plan to incorporate more smoke in hopes no will notice were not really moving too fast. The fire behind our seat in the last race helped distract the attention away from the real winner significantly.
I’m really glad I have such great friends that put on such great events! Make sure to support these events by any means necessary!
Big thanks to John, Big Daddy, Hal, Katie Bell, the bands, the racers and especially to Charlie, and Puney.
The Bar raised a bunch of Money for Todd! Here is the next event for him.
This is the best white trash event I have ever been to! What more can you ask for, beer, girls, grease, greasy girls, racing, sun burns, and every DIY engineer freak the bay area has to offer. I will be out there with the Big Wheel Racer beating the greasy socks off of everyone again and taking home the prize money to feed my family for another year!
We have decided for safety reasons to cancel our participation in this event. There is just not enough room for fire. Please come by, the robots look amazing!
What could be better in life than robots and cocktails? Well, nothing! Roboexotica is the premier cocktail making robot event which happens in Vienna each year. This week it comes to San Francisco. Join us for good music, cocktails, and robots that pour you drinks, insult you, and test your BAC. Several different artists from around the Bay Area and Europe will be presenting their work for your imbibing pleasure.
This Saturday the first US Robexotica exhibition is opening at Space, 354 5th St. San Francisco.
The Austrian cocktail robots that came to the Bay Area for Maker Faire will be joined by several local creations, ones that have been to Vienna for Roboexotica before, and some that haven’t.
You are invited to join the Boiler Bar presenting VOLT/AGED whiskey at the grand opening on Sat. May 10th from 8pm-2am!
Don’t forget to Vote in SF Weekly “Best Of” for the Boiler Bar as the Best Bar in town!
It’s on the last page of the link below.
Wow we had the best time this last weekend at Maker Faire.
I want to thank the crew and performers for blue collar job well done!
The whole crew minus Tackett.
We are loaded and on our way to Maker Faire.
Hope to see you all out there.
Here are pictures from last nights great event.
We will be there again tonight.
