[TheForge] Broom making equipment

Tue Sep 10 08:18:00 2002

I made brooms before I found my way to the blacksmith shop and if the
equipment is in any order of working that is a good price. I grew up in El
Dorado, AR and if I were home I would run up and look at it myself.

Keith "Sparky" Holmes

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen McGehee" <[email protected]>
To: "TheForge" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 10:42 PM
Subject: [TheForge] Broom making equipment

> Hey All-while looking around at the flea markets in my new residence I
> spied a set of machines, maybe 4 in all, for making brooms.  The
> machines are cast iron and wood and seem to be all there and restorable
> into usable condition.  One is a vise, one has a means to pierce the
> corn to stitch it together, and another is a shear for trimming the ends
> of the corn.  If anyone is interested I will go back and get more of a
> description.  The price tag is $ 1,500 but that is probably negotiable.
>
> Stephen McGehee, Publisher
> Irony - the sketchbook of an apprentice blacksmith
> P.O. Box 9822
> Pine Bluff, AR 71601
> 479-643-3299
>
>
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