[TheForge] Re: Demos

[Mike Linn]

Damn, I cant get more than $15 for them at shows. Now my large ones with a 
dogwood and cross coming out of the center, I get $150 for.

mike


At 01:06 PM 6/17/02 -0500, you wrote:
>If you have a vertical band saw or a lot of patience with a hack saw precut
>using 1/4 or 3/8 square stock.  I have the dimensions written somewhere or
>it is on one of the UMBA tapes for the length of stock and cuts.  Then at
>the demo stick the stock in the forge pull it out and almost magically it
>becomes a cross with only two quick bends.  The turtle man had examples of
>them at Lacrosse.
>I think they brought $40 at the auction.  In less economically challenged
>areas you can punch a hole add a round link which attaches them to a premade
>leather necklace for up to $40 before they cool according to the tape.
>Notice the repeated commercials for the UMBA library at www.umbaonline.org
>Roger R Degner
>Franklin,Minn,USA
> > Hmmm, another idea that can be sorta quick, make a friend Cross'  take a
> > piece of 3/4 stock using a hot cut split it down about 2 inches. turn over
> > 90 degrees and split from the opposite end as the first cut. Be sure the
> > cut goes past the first by about 1/2 inch. Then unfold and you have a nice
> > cross .......   You can use smaller stock but I have a harder time with
>it.
> >
> > Ralph
> >
>
>
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