[TheForge] Best Blacksmith

[Philippa Alderton]

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Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 11:15 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Best Blacksmith


>    A friend of mine by the name of Karol Tarkowski..... he doesn't do
large
> scale stuff... he just does little things.... he has never sold anything
and
> he has never been shown...
>
>    Karol lost complete use of one arm decades ago and has built a complete
> "one armed bandit" shop and he smiths everyday just because he loves it...
he
> can go on for hours about the latest leaf that he made and all the
techniques
> he figured out or learned. It is a joy to blacksmith with him he is like a
> big kid with a new present every day
>
Yeah, he's a helluva good guy. I've enjoyed watching him work ;-)

Phlip