[TheForge] [TheForge]OctoberFaust (was: Education)

Sat Mar 2 07:15:00 2002

Speaking of Education, could you elaborate upon this event? "OctoberFaust"

[email protected] wrote:

> In a message dated 02-03-01 18:19:23 EST, you write:
>
> << Also just curious have any of the readers out
>  there ever had a customer that specified only
>  traditional building techniques (besides buckskinners
>  or historical recreations)? >>
>
> How many customers in the US can tell the difference between what was done
> traditionally, and what wasn't.  For that matter...how many customers can
> tell the difference between the quality work you all produce, and the
> imported rusty iron junk coming out of Mexico and the far east?
>
> On the whole, the buying public in this country needs to be taught -- perhaps
> exposed is a better word -- to quality ironwork, and the techniques, modern
> AND traditional, that goes into making it. (my apologies to any European
> smiths, and the Australian and New Zealand smithshere...I don't know what
> goes on in your markets)
> Its my understanding that OctoberFaust, put on by Lou Mueller in St. Louis,
> is designed to specifically do that.  I'd personally like to see it spread,
> though admit I dont' know how.
>
> Jerry V
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