[TheForge] Gas Forge Recommendation

[debmiller at fuse.net]

I live MY NC Whisper Momma also!!

Started a water heater forge, and my wife surprised me with a Whisper Momma for my birthday that year. NEVER FINISHED the water heater forge and NO regrets....

Ray
Cincinnati
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> From: Dann <dann at wctatel.net>
> Date: 2005/07/10 Sun PM 06:50:05 EDT
> To: Sponsored by ABANA <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Gas Forge Recommendation
> 
> I love my  NC Whisper Momma.
> 
> Building your own blacksmith widget, vs buying has been hashed over a 
> few dozen times on other subjects as well.  For example, forge  your 
> own tongs vs buying tongs.
> 
>   Five years or so years  ago,   Charlie Orlando was 
> demonstrating  basic blacksmith for UMBA  in Baraboo Wisconsin using 
> his  purchased  2 burner gas forge.   A month or so later  I was the 
> proud owner of a new "Whisper Momma" :  I was super happy because  I 
> could turn on  the  LP, hit the igniter, and have cherry red steel in 
> a few minutes,  EVERY TIME.  My whisper momma turned out NOT to be 
> the brand that Orlando  praised, but  it sure works.
> 
>   My 20 / 20 hindsight   would have me buying  a good gas forge  back 
> 20  years ago.  I am not a Ron Reil nor a furnace man.   For me 
> trying to build my own  "working" gas forge, was a  frustrating waste 
> of time.   Best way for me  would  to be  part of  a blacksmith 
> "hammer-in " kind of event where a demonstrator coaches  a group 
> build , so each participant comes home with  new "home made   "  gas forge.
> 
> Dann
> 
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