[TheForge] Mastermyr Report

Tue Jun 11 11:04:00 2002

Rob,

What's the traveling trunk exhibit?  Would this make it available to 
chapters/ others for special events.  Would like to hear the details of 
how this works.  

Bill

Rob Fertner wrote:

>Greetings One and All,
>
>There were 23 smiths involved in making 42 items for this project. There are
>roughly 65 items not made yet.  Currently, the project is being stored in my
>bedroom except for the steelyard, which Ken Zastrow took back so he could
>finish it.  Ralph Douglass your section of chain didn't get here before I
>left, so I picked it up at the post office today.
>I spoke with Jim Wallace from the National Ornamental Metal Museum about the
>collection.
>He was very much interested in it. He also thought it would be a good
>candidate for the traveling trunk exhibit, like the one they did back a
>while back with the 17th century lockworks.
>If we donate the collection to the museum, I need you to e-mail me this
>statement:
>
>I, (your name), donate free and clear my project item(s) to the National
>Onamental Metal Museum for educational purposes.
>
>I will print each e-mail I get to give Jim a hard copy. I would prefer to
>get this out of my bedroom as quickly as possible and be put somewhere on
>display.
>All of you involved, pat yourselves on the back. It went over real well at
>the conference. The 1st evening the gallery was open, I stopped by to see
>how it was going and I ended up talking to people for 2 hours about it. I
>bragged alot about all of you. I put in an extra "Oh, Wow" for Bill Clemens
>and the fire-grid he did in a week. Any of you that come to Wichita, I'll
>buy you a beer. :-)
>Norm Larson brought 50 copies of the Mastermyr book to the conference and I
>think he sold about 40 of them after people had a chance to see our project.
>Your efforts have inspired others.
>Anyone interested in Mastermyr part II? Finishing up the rest of the items?
>Steve, how about making another chest you can permanently donate? :-)
>With much thanks and appreciation,
>Rob Fertner
>Wichita, Kansas
>
>
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