[TheForge] -time line Was--> Stupid comments

Thu May 30 19:15:01 2002

I know of one in California USA but not anywhere else.
Dan Scheid
Flying horse forge
http://home.earthlink.net/~chevalvolant/flyinghorseforge.html

> Some one told me there is a smithy in Germany that is completely water
> powered, including power hammers and such from way back.  Don't know the
> dates, but old enough to use wood more than iron in the working members.
> Anyone know about this place?
>
> Larry
>
> Dan Rathburn wrote:
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Philippa Alderton" <[email protected]>
> >
> > > If we wanna argue about something, lets argue about traditional
smithing
> >
> > Ok when did hand crank blowers come in?
> >
> > When did the smiths start using coal in place of charcoal in the IN.,
IL.,
> > and WI. area?
> >
> > and what would the "power hammers" of the about 1850 look like.
> >
> > >vs fabrication vs artistic smithing. Life's too short to let the
> > politicians and their self-serving rhetoric distract us from the
important
> > things, like hot steel, and a new trick for shaping it.....
> > >
> > > Phlip, who carries a BIG hammer- and knows how to swing it.
> > >
> >
> > Working in a smithy that is should to be an 1850's shop with a hand
crank
> > blower (they did take out the electric one), 25# Little Giant(biult
1916),
> > bottom blowen forge and wall mounted hand crank drill press.
> > do you think every thing is period?
> >
> > Dan Rathburn
> > Elgin, IL USA
> >
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