[TheForge] brainstorming and other thoughts on cutting sheet metal

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good thoughts peteF. instead of taking apart a real rose or a paper rose to make a pattern to make a steel rose just make a flower from another planet. who will care? art bell??

bob

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>General musing on theforge;
>Just sorta thinking with the keyboard here, but.....We  learned how to make 
>roses..a sweet old traditional thing and it can be a bread and butter 
>item...not saying it isn't important.....but,......We might be missing more 
>than half the lesson here.
>What I'm trying to say is....that the techniques we learned..the assembling 
>of grouped elements of cut and shaped sheet metal with forged small bars ( 
>the stem) and so on....are good for a lot of other products and should be 
>used to make other things. That's what makes you free.
>Guys go to a demo and learn how to make a single product just fine, and 
>never take it any farther! Learning to make a rose ought to carry a smith 
>way beyond flowers.
>..on second thought, ignore the above. There's enough competition already 
>(G)...............PF
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