[TheForge] re hammer of the gods

[Doug Ayen]

Thus Spake TOOL GYPSY (toolgypsy at hotmail.com):
> If one wants a machine then one should buy the machine.One should not worry 
> about what another one does with its machine but only how much fun one can 
> have smashing perfectly good iron into god knows whatsis."look nigel its a 
> cloud' ,'no no its looks more like a pancake flipper on steroids'
>                                                      Paddy p the wannabe
> 
>                 mommy,mommy i want one,please mommy please
> 

Given the prevalence of "blacksmith's disease" (the tendancy of blacksmiths
and other metalworkers to accumulate tools, often to the point of fiscal
irresponsibility or in excess of storage capacity) encouraging us to continue
to buy tools is foolhardy indeed. But a corollary to your statement above
is that never let not having the exact tool for the job stop you from doing
something. Don't have a power hammer? Infect a friend with the blacksmithing
meme and have him strike for you. No forge? Dig a hole in the ground and 
improvise. No anvil? I know one smith who went to a gravestone cutter and
used one of their scraps of granite for an anvil for a while. 

Banging metal around is fun, no matter how you do it.  


--doug