[TheForge] Introduction

Mon Jul 14 14:16:01 2003

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

Welcome, Mizz Calamity, we can always use another woman around here, to keep
these cranky old smiths straight ;-)

So, I take it you're into some type of recreation or reenactment, from your
admitted age? You're still a youngling- I was born in 453 CE, but these guys
don't take to being written to in Latin or Greek or Turkish, for some
reason, so I stick with the modern English vernacular ;-)

Welcome aboard ;-)

Phlip

"When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
 Blacksmith's credo.

 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....

----- Original Message -----
From: "Best, Dianne" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 12:18 PM
Subject: [TheForge] Introduction

> Well, I am brand new here 'n' feel a bit like a fish otta water, so I
> thought I otta introduce meself.
>
> (Yea, I know I "talk funny", but when yer 150 years old 'n' live on the
> Northern Plains, waddya expect!)
>
> I'm a 50-something year old farm girl who's worked all her life in the
> high-tech engineering field but developed a life long passion for old
> machinery and have an insatiable urge to "build things" and restore
antique
> machinery. In recent years, I have built a 1/2 scale steam threshing
outfit
> (engine, water wagon, and threshing machine) and restored a1958 Oliver
OC-46
> crawler. I promised to STOP my obsession (since the garage is full and
some
> of my "toys" have to sit outside) but it didn't work.
>
> The current project is a 1/3 scale Civil War era 6-pound cannon.
>
> Well, of course there are many little fittings required for the carriage
and
> blacksmithing is something I have always been interested in so . . .
>
> I picked up a couple of books and read them. Last weekend I acquired a
small
> anvil (100 Lb) and a portable forge that needs a little restoration, so,
> while I am restoring the forge and doing the machining on the cannon
barrel,
> I thought I would hang around here, listen to the conversations, and see
> what tidbits of wisdom I can pick up before I build my first blacksmith's
> fire.
>
> If you've got nothing to do, you can drop by my home page and see how bad
my
> obsession is; http://www.geocities.com/diannebest
> <http://www.geocities.com/diannebest>
>
> Don't mind me, fellers. I'll jist sit over here in the corner 'n'
> listen.....
>
> Calamity Jane
>
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