[TheForge] cone price?

[Andrew Vida]

On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 15:13:59 -0500, <xlch58@swbell.net> wrote:

> Well, I am feeling better now.  I paid $75 for my five footer-- I 
> couldn't get the guy down to $50 and wasn't willing to walk away, since I 
> hadn't seen them for sale new or used anywhere else.     Years ago, 
> someone on this list recounted  their cone mandrel lament.  As I recall, 
> they had an uncle that lived in minesota that they visited every holiday 
> season.  A year or so after he died, they mentioned at the family 
> gathering they were in to blacksmithing  and looking for  old tools.  The 
> aunt's response was why didn't you say so sooner?   Evidently the uncle 
> had collected several shipping containers of the stuff over the years 
> that had been auctioned upon his death.   The poster lamented to the 
> Aunt, I had no idea, to which she replied "How could you miss it -- the 
> driveway was lined with twelve blacksmiths cones topped with a hand 
> forged anchor chain."   The poster remembered the driveway fence, but had 
> never seen it other than snow covered and never made the connection.   
> Its been about five years since he posted it, so he has probably gotten 
> over it by now.

	That was Ron Reil, as I recall.