[TheForge] Dont put your tongue on a frozen anvil round 2

[Dan Tull]

dan tull
georgia
abba, afc, S.C. psba, obg,sofa
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Grover Richardson" <grover.richardson at gtri.gatech.edu>
To: <mspencer at tallships.ca>; "'Sponsored by ABANA'"
<theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 8:37 AM
Subject: RE: [TheForge] Dont put your tongue on a frozen anvil round 2




I have seen compression spalling (earing over on the working surface due to
excessive wear) in hammers from the civil war.  In fact all the tools that I
saw at a local display were seriously used and abused.  I suspect that
either they were the ones left behind as useless, or someone was desparate
to get the job done<G>.  Then again, we don't know who made them, under what
conditions, or what quality of metal was used.


Or better yet, remember, artifacts were probably abused by the
grandchildren.
They never learned to take care of tools that were needed for survival by
their
grandparents.