[TheForge] John Caretti

Mon Mar 4 02:02:01 2002

At 06:53 AM 3/3/02, you wrote:

I once wrote a wise-ass article for the Ring, the premise of which was 
,that they had told me that oxy-acet was obsolete which was why i couldn't 
get parts. So I figured, now that it was obsolete  that St Francis F would 
be able to approve of my work.
St Francis did not think it was all that funny and I was told it would be 
better if i didnt show up at the Rocky Mtn conference that year, further, a 
promised visit by the St to my shop was canceled.....which was probably 
just as well. There are few people who are messier than I and he would have 
been horrified..........Pete f

>Sorry for the delay, apparently I missed a digest or 2.
>
><< > so who is john caretti? and what were his words?
>  >
>  > we can talk about dick cheney too and as far as i know he is not a member
>  also.
>  >
>  > bob >>
>
>John Caretti is a blacksmith from Virginia, one of those who has been at it
>almost as long as I've been alive.  If you visit the Junkyard
>(www.keenjunk.com/junkyard.htm), he's "John C", and one of the greatest
>proponents of The True Path.  Which basically sounds an awful lot like what
>Francis Whitaker kept promoting...has nothing to do with style, be it
>traditional or contemporary, but rather how you do it.
>
>I probably spelled his name wrong.  Its one of those Italian names, like
>mine, which most likely isn't spelled like it sounds.
>
>Jerry Veneziano
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