[TheForge] demos

[Dave Brown]

At 21:36 06/17/02 -0400, you wrote:
>According to Bealers book a blacksmith is so called because the METAL turns
>black and the old language "to smite" got rounded off to smith. So we are
>the 'smiters of the black metal'.  If I am correct tin or silver smiths
>could be called whitesmiths. ( I think I read that somewhere).

Actually one who works with tin or silver is a tinsmith or a 
silversmith.  A whitesmith is one who works iron or steel to finished 
condition with files and polishes and leaves the finished piece "in the 
white".  Or so I've always understood.  I read this somewhere but can't 
recall where.

Dave Brown