[TheForge] Suggestions, please

[xlch58 at swbell.net]

Horseshoe knives ( reallly just letter openers not good eneought steel) 
are cheap easy and quick.   People like something that they can tell was 
forges from someother recognizable item.  Also I have learned to do the 
blades in advance, but leave the butt end untouched.   I forge them 
onsite, since people seem to want the one you are working on at that 
moment, a simple scroll or even a horse head on the butt goes faster 
than a file and four grades of sand paper on the blade.  

Charles


Phlip wrote:

>I have just been (tentatively) hired for a Renn Faire in June. The deal is,
>they'll pay my expenses, but in order for me to actually make money, I'll be
>selling stuff I make. I'd like some ideas, guys, of things that would be
>sellers, basicly as souvenirs, at such an event- I know several of you have
>done that sort of thing.
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>Saint Phlip,
>CoD
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>"When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
> Blacksmith's credo.
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> If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
>cat.
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>Never a horse that cain't be rode,
>And never a rider who cain't be throwed....
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