[TheForge] Tempest in a commode

[xlch58 at swbell.net]

I look to the the Anvils Ring for inspiration,  the Hammer's Blow is for 
perspiration.   Every time I have someone else going on about their 
"wrought iron" piece of cast aluminum, or mig welded cast iron and tube 
fence, I only have to reach for the latest issue of the Anvil's Ring to 
show them the difference between fabrication and the Blacksmith's 
Art.     Honestly, I don't look forward to the Hammers Blow like I do 
the Anvil's Ring.   For a while there I did, but it has been more 
inconsistent than the Anvil's Ring, and Hoffman's Gazette has pretty 
much replaced it in my can't wait for it list, though I have been so 
busy, I have let my subscription to Gazette fall to the wayside, 
fortunately I can always pick it back up exactly where I left off.

Charles

Andy Vida wrote:

>	I tend to agree, though I've heard a lot of complaints about
>	the Ring being too artsy-fartsy, lacking in enough how-to
>	articles and focusing too much on smiths not from North
>	America.  I guess I'm just not sophisticated enough to see
>	the fuss about it.  I don't much care where the beautiful work
>	comes from; I just like seeing it.
>