[TheForge] Bealer's mistakes?

[Dan Tull]

Alex Bealer was a writer, and not much of a blacksmith.
He was the one that realized we were going to lose all that B/S knowledge if 
we didn't record it.
His book was a product of going around to as many "village" blacksmiths as 
he could to catalog tools,
processes, and products.  One should certainly realize the different stories 
he got for the same processes.

His book was the reason the meeting was held that founded ABANA. Thus: 
"sharing of information"
which is what we are now doing.
You probably wouldn't be in blacksmithing if it hadn't been for Alex Bealer.

Member of the Alex Bealer Blacksmith Assoc.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phlip" <phlip at 99main.com>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Bealer's mistakes?


>
> 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
>
> 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
>
> "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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