[TheForge] Suggestions, please

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

Hi Phlip:
When I did the Faires in the 70s, I did little quickie flowers till i 
couldn't stand it anymore but they sold when the bigger stuff wouldn't 
move. Forged  bells did OK too....PF

xlch58 at swbell.net 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
>
>
> 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.
>>
>> Saint Phlip,
>> CoD
>>
>> "When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
>> Blacksmith's credo.
>>
>> If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
>> cat.
>>
>> Never a horse that cain't be rode,
>> And never a rider who cain't be throwed....
>>
>>
>>
>>  
>>
>
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