[TheForge] Build it or buy it

[Phlip]

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> Again, I guess my point is how amazed I am at the different ways people
> work, how some of the folks on this list continually amaze me with the way
> they do things, and how much I can learn from that variety.
> Ries

Well, you know, this is pretty much my attitude. I like to tease you guys
sometimes, about ignoring your high-tech ways, and detailed methods of
rebuilding 25 lb Little Giants, and so forth, but I think for each of us,
the joy of smithing is in doing what you want to do. I take my pleasure in
the shaping of the steel by hand, and the teaching of new, or better yet,
very old, techniques- for others, the joys are different, but still, each of
us, when we hold what we have wrought, or use it, or, sometimes, as I saw
yesterday, observe the joy on face of the person who'd never touched a forge
before, holding in their hands this thing that THEY MADE..... Ain't nothing
better than this ;-)

Phlip

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....