[TheForge] Re: 1018

[Andy Vida]

Mike wrote:

> I was surprised nyself that there was no evidence of the m/s giving
> underneath the steel and cracking the plates, welds or whatever.

	Well, if you're working things good and hot, jury rigged
	things like this can last sometimes forever, but as a rule
	I don't like doing things this way.  Winding up with shrapnel
	slicing through your carotid artery at 200 mph isn't my idea
	of a good time.

> Me, too.  About the 50th blow I struck on my very first anvil, I
> missed the work, hit the anvil face and ran a chip of hammer half an
> inch up into my hand.  Good lesson, early on.

	Ow... that hurts just imagining it.