[TheForge] McRaven's Country Blacksmithing
Andy Vida
osan at netlabs.net
Thu Aug 5 11:39:32 EDT 2004
Stephen McGehee wrote:
>
> Norm
> I hope you missed a decimal point there, but if that book is for sale
> for $ 1,800, I'll gladly sell mine for $ 1,700! It's paperback,
> reasonably clean, and probably a good place to start from. Has this
> book become some kind of cult classic ? Does this mean that old
> hippie/hillbilly blacksmiths from the Ozarks are now hot product...Hot
> Damn, let me fire up the ole word processor and go get Bob P, we'll
> drink some elderberry wine and tell tales of powered wild turkey
> gizzards and mud daubers as welding flux and about the blacksmith shop
> and 374 pound Peter Wright at the bottom of Table Rock Lake, covered up
> by an uncaring Corps of Engineers while the tearful widow looked out her
> window... oh, I'm sorry. 'tis August and the Dog Days are upon us.
> Must be the heat.
So, uh... tell me... where, um... is Table Rock Lake?
Just curious. That's all. Idle curiosity. Nothing more.
-Andy "just curious, honest" V.
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