Blacksmiths forging bike racks for local communities
A project in Syracuse, NY by Mark Teece000days
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Bike racks Forged in Fire - designed and built by blacksmiths using hot iron and donated to local communities along the Erie Canal.
Backers: 44
Average Pledge Per Backer: $69
Funded: $3,027 of $3,000
Dates: Dec 19th -> Jan 18th (30 days)
Project By: Mark Teece
Backers: 44
Average Pledge Per Backer: $69
Funded: $3,027 of $3,000
Dates: Dec 19th -> Jan 18th (30 days)
Project By: Mark Teece
$3,027
current pledge level
Last Updated: January 18 @ 10:03 -0500 GMT
100%
of goal
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Latest News
FULLY FUNDED!!!!!!!!! 
January 16th - via: kickstarter.com
We are funded.... Thank you to all of our backers for helping us get this project funded. We are all very excited and celebrating the success of our project.... THANK YOU AGAIN.Time to fire up the forges....... You'll need an HTML5 capable browser... (Read More)
94% funded
January 15th - via: kickstarter.com
It is looking great and we are all very excited. 94% funded and still a few hours left to go!! For all the unicyclists out there, our bike racks will be available for you to lock up your unicycles as well. So here is a quick video of a unicycle... (Read More)
Only 3 days to go
January 15th - via: kickstarter.com
With only 3 days left, we are almost there. Less than $200 to make this project happen. Yesterday our local group of blacksmiths met and we raised some more funds by auctioning off a hand forged hammer and one of members donated the money from... (Read More)
Working hard
January 12th - via: kickstarter.com
We are working on making iron coasters for our backers. The coasters are cut from flat bars of surplus steel using a plasma cutter - a plasma cutter works by creating a plasma that is accelerated by air pressure to "blow" the molten steel out of the... (Read More)
One week left and getting closer
January 10th - via: kickstarter.com
Dear backers Only one week left and only $500 to go so it looks like this may get funded with your help. So this week we have been working on a a heavily textured bike rack for the village of Chittenango NY. To create the textures we use our #5... (Read More)
Almost at $2,000
January 7th - via: kickstarter.com
We are close to the $2,000 mark - who is going to be the magical person who gets us over that milestone because then there is only $1,000 left!! Here is another bike rack that could be replaced with a more beautiful one, although even a great bike... (Read More)
Half way to our goal!!!
January 5th - via: kickstarter.com
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Happy New Year
January 1st - via: kickstarter.com
Happy New Year to all our backers. It is a joyous time of the year, but pretty cold in central New York with -11F temperatures so the anvils get pretty cold. When it's this cold in a blacksmith shop, we have to heat up the anvil with red hot blocks... (Read More)
Back to forging
December 29th - via: kickstarter.com
We hope that you all had a lovely holiday break and now its back to forging for the blacksmiths! Thank you to all our backers and we are now over $1,000 into our campaign so keep sharing the project with your friends so that we can make this... (Read More)
Almost a third of the way to our goal
December 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
Thank you for the Holiday spirit - we are almost a third of the way to reaching our goal. We have been hard at work making bike racks this past summer and always had a good audience during our public demonstrations. We will be demonstrating forging... (Read More)
Cattails for another bike rack
December 21st - via: kickstarter.com
Wow - 28% on the way to our goal!! Thank you...... We often have suggestions for bike racks that show local plants and animals. Here are some cattails forged from iron pipes. The iron pipes are the type used by plumbers in bringing natural gas or... (Read More)
Lilies forged from iron for our backers
December 20th - via: kickstarter.com
36 hours and almost 25% funded - thank you to all of our backers. In celebration of this almost milestone, we forged some lilies Forged lilies These lilies were forged for a sculptural project and maybe we will use them for a bike rack in the... (Read More)
Model of another bike rack
December 20th - via: kickstarter.com
Sometimes to get an idea of how a particular design will look, we build a small model. Here is a flower bike rack that is about 18" high. Flower bike rack model Of course we needed a bike for scale, so we made one out of wood just for scale (Read More)
Thank you for the early adopters
December 19th - via: kickstarter.com
After 12 hours and now at $400 - this is fantastic. Thanks for all of your support. Here is a photo of some heavy textures forged into a bar for a bike rack depicting a stream. Hot forged textures (Read More)
Thank you to our first backer
December 19th - via: kickstarter.com
Thank you to our first backer and less than 5 mins into the campaign- its the start of a great journey (Read More)
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