Sunday, April 8, 2012

Wendell August Forge and Warthers museum

On the way down to Amish country, you might want to pull over to visit this store. Wendell August is on the way to Berlin and has an extensive store and a little craft for the kids to hammer.
From their site:
World's Largest Amish Buggy, made especially for us by an Amish buggy maker just down the road from us. Gather your family and friends for a picture right in front of the massive buggy on a genuine buggy seat! There's also an LGB Train winding its way overhead on over 300 feet of track which is always a hit with kids of all ages. Another guest favorite is the old time Nickelodeon, certain to entertain with its multiple instruments playing memorable songs.  
You will then enjoy the chance to walk through our workshop space where we have set up all of the tools of our trade from the die engraving through the creation of our product. You will get a great sense of how our craftsmen in Pennsylvania make our wonderful giftware.
Once you have experienced all of this, be sure to try your hand at being a craftsperson yourself in our interactive hand hammering room and take home a treasure made by you! 



 Pretty cool shop. And you would never know from the outside. Didn't look like much of a stop till you walk in. When we pulled up, Dad told my Mom and I to go in and see if it's worth unloading the kids. We initially thought it was going to be a quick look just to turn around and jump back in the wagon, but after seeing this, we told them to go ahead and park.

This Amish buggy could carry the whole family. Limousine style.

If you have a full morning or afternoon, and can drive about an hour and a half roundtrip, head on over to hammer out your own metal art.
The 4 selections of scenes to hammer.  The top two are Christ with children and an Amish country scene.




On the way home from Berlin, we stopped in Dover to check out Warthers museum. Impressive. From what I'm told, this guy carves these figures out of wood...all by hand and so precise that no engineer has ever found a part missing. Attention to detail is exhausting just to look at it. The guy had a thought in his mind and grabs a few of those knives and works on the wood until he comes up with something that looks like the pic below. To see the video of part of his working in action, see his site here. Scroll down to the bottom to see it.



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