[TheForge] Fw: Ancient metallurgy - US Bicentennial Bloom

[Chris Kilpatrick]

Yeah,
     When less than 4% of your income went to housing!  Hmmm, maybe . . . 

-chris K.

----- Original Message -----
From: "JOHN CHOBRDA" <jchob at verizon.net>
To: "'Sponsored by ABANA'" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: RE: [TheForge] Fw: Ancient metallurgy - US Bicentennial Bloom
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 14:11:14 -0500

> 
> Can you also imagine how LOW and stable a workman's wages were. Would any of
> us want to earn the wages and live like our great grandfathers did, not I
> 
> John C.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of mrscherm at aol.com
> Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 1:20 PM
> To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
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> 
> Can you imagine how low and stable the inflation rate must have been
> back when they named "ten penny" nails etc. to have a name for a
> product - related to cost, and have it remembered and stick as the name
> of that product. I'll bet the Feds' Alan Greenspan is glad that we
> didnt do our "ax project" very often.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Freeman <FREEMAB at pt.fdah.com>
> To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
> Sent: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 12:48:45 -0500
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Fw: Ancient metallurgy - US Bicentennial Bloom
> 
> I guess that makes them million-penny nails!
> 
> >>> stephen.viola at gmail.com 11/3/2005 10:33:12 AM >>>
> Hehe well I said it was a quick calculation.. but you are right those
> nailheads must be about $50000 a pop! I wouldn't want to build a very
> big house using those nails :o)
> 
> Stephen
> 
> On 11/2/05, mrscherm at aol.com <mrscherm at aol.com> wrote:
> 
> > I misspoke, as I now recall, we also made five or six nails from the
> > shards that fell off the bloom. The cost of those nails would be right
> > up there.
> 
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