[TheForge] Re: Kaowool

[Jerry Frost]

Aw Pshaw Mike.

I was about to say the same thing about your last post but realized it was 
starting to sound too much like a mutual admiration society.

Truth is Mike and I just happen to agree to a greater or lesser degree about 
a lot of things. Our philosophy about tools and equipment being high on the 
list. We've been brainstorming things on the side and have discovered we 
seldom need to explain what we're thinking; a rare sketch has been about it.

I don't get emotionally attached to tools or equipment either. Don't get me 
wrong, I have favorites and some treasured tools I've essentially retired 
but if a tool doesn't work right or there's something better I want the best 
I can afford. Best doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the price 
tag either. I'll happily put my less than $10.00 burner up against anything 
commercially sold for forges. If my burner gets whipped I want one of those.

I also don't expect a tool to do the job, that's what I do; the tool just 
performs for me. If I can't get what I expect out of it I look to myself 
first, then the tool, maybe. The number ONE tool in my kit is between my 
ears and is the one most likely to be lacking in something. <grin>

I'm also a reductionist by heart, meaning I pretty well automatically reduce 
complex things to their barest, basic parts to better understand what's 
going on. It isn't necessarily for everybody but works well for me. . . 
Usually, sometimes I have to reach into my mental tool kit for another 
hammer to beat a problem with and I do.

Anyway, if anybody starts thinking Mikey and I are conspiring to make a 
point, win over "converts" or are slobberingly in like of one another; we 
just think in a similar way and such. In fact, I find we don't disagree 
enough for really effective brainstorming. <sigh>

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.

http://www.artmetalradio.com/


From: "Mike Porter" <michael.a.porter at comcast.net>



> Well said Jerry:
>
> As to AP Green products, in business or out, their products will still be
> obtainable somewhere; here is a good starting point for anyone's search:
>
> ANH Refractories Company: corporate headquarters at Cherrington Corporate
> Center, 400 Fairway Dr., Moon Township, PA 15108 Tel: 412-375-6600 Home
> page: http://www.hwr.com/ This is a consortium of several companies that
> sell famous brand names: A.P. Green, North American Refractories Company,
> and Harbison-Walker are all ANH companies.
> Mikey
>