[TheForge] Conspiracy of silence

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

Hello Michael:
Neat. I started doing that faire in the late 60s...I think the 3rd or 
4th one. It was kind to me and fed us when i was just starting out.
It was a schitzo life though...work iron and fire in near isolation for 
6 months, then take all the stuff to the faire, set up and camp out and 
field 10000 + people a day till my eyeballs moved independantly. Sure 
was pleased when i had enough commissions coming in to quit! But then 
I've never liked people enough to keep it from being a hell of a lot of 
work.
The way I rationalized my torch/forge in a period setting was to drape 
the tanks and hoses with leather and claim they were dragon guts.
The old site off Malibu cyn was pretty nice...there was even some 
wrought iron to scrounge.
Hope all goes smoothly and well and the public just has to own 
everything you have to sell to them.....PF

Michael Horgan wrote:
> Busy week, here, Pete. Just starting to set up for the 43rd Annual 
> Southern California Renaissance Faire. New site this year at the Santa 
> Fe Dam in Irwindale. Setting up the Celt Clan camp, but we still don't 
> know if we'll be able to forge. Current rules say no fires. Hopefully we 
> can get by with a gas forge.
> 
> At 06:57 PM 3/19/2005, you wrote:
> 
>> A blacksmith's conspiracy of silence...they all know about it but 
>> us...we may be violating taboos of which we are ignorant and they'll 
>> take our hammers away....gosh...PF
> 
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