[TheForge] Nice, TheForge is still going strong

Mon Aug 18 13:00:00 2003

Hey Dave,
Your courtly and knowledgeable presence has been sorely missed.
How does it feel to be living in the blacksmith's Valhalla?
Chuck
----- Original Message -----
From: "David E. Smucker" <[email protected]>
To: "AAA TheForge AAA" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 6:13 PM
Subject: [TheForge] Nice, TheForge is still going strong


> Nice to see that TheForge is still going strong and that many of the "old
> gang" are still on here and active.  Also I sure there are many new folks
I
> will soon get to know.  I have been off TheForge for about 3 years now.
> After retirement we started the building and moving to a new house and
shop
> in the woods of North Carolina.  I decide to drop out of TheForge since I
> would be away from the computer for long periods and couldn't deal with
the
> email traffic stack up.  Then a year ago, when the old house in Knoxville
> sold and we moved into an apartment I just didn't pick back up because I
was
> busy working on the new house - and editing the Appalachian Area Chapter
> Blacksmiths Newsletter.
>
>
>
> Well we are in the house, it's not finished yet, lots of trim work to do,
> doors to build, door hardware etc. etc.  But I am tired of reading the
"Fine
> Homebuilding" forum and it time to go back to reading about blacksmithing,
> ABANA debates,  etc.  Still don't have the shop finished but the building
is
> up and I hope to have the forge going by late this fall.  (Have to have
> somewhere to do all of that door hardware for the house.)
>
>
>
> I wonder now is Frosty coming on his house and shop up north?
>
>
>
> Do you want to build a house and still do blacksmithing? - don't build the
> house.  At least not if you are an old man.
>
>
>
> We are located in Brasstown, NC just 3 miles from the John C. Campbell
Folk
> School.  So if you are in the area look us up, we are in the phone book.
>
>
>
> Dave Smucker,  (it used to be Green Frog Forge, may have to change the
name,
> not many tree frogs here.)
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