[TheForge] Suggestions, please

[Michael Horgan]

At 09:33 PM 1/13/2005, you wrote:
>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

Yup, they do want to see you do it.  I one made a leaf bladed  socketed 
pike <spear> head at faire, because someone said it couldn't be done. The 
longer I took, and the more dangerous it looked, the bigger the crowd grew. 
Sold it before I finished it, but wasn't cost effective.



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