[TheForge] Bealer's mistakes?

[Steve Smith]

Phlip wrote:

> Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...
> 
> 
>>So in closing: Anybody have examples of mistakes in "The Art of
>>Blacksmithing?" I've already learned quite a bit from the book and more
> 
> from
> 
>>my mistakes so why not learn even more from HIS mistakes? <grin>
>>
>>Frosty
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> 
> Well, I haven't noticed any actual mistakes, everything I've looked at will
> actually work, but in my opinion, he's not very efficient- if there's a long
> and comp;icated way to do something, and a quick and easy way to do
> something, it seems, most of the time, he'll go the hard way. Most of the
> other books I've read tend to be by actual working smiths, as opposed to
> hobbyists, and they don't have time for his methods.
> 
> I'll go get my copy out of the truck in the morning, when I can SEE, and
> give y'all a couple examples then ;-)
> 
> Saint Phlip,
> CoD

It has been way too long since I looked at mine (maybe I should). It 
seems to me that the main issue for recommending the book is that it is 
more like a historian's view of how blacksmiths work, where what you 
want to recommend is more like a teaching book.

Steve