[TheForge] Artist-Blacksmith

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

Ran across some junkyard aluminum square stock that forged cold 
about like hot steel. I assume it was annealed and pretty 
pure...Pete f

robert hensarling wrote:
> You two are going to get me in all kinds of trouble here!  Ok, ok, the
> scotch is on the way.  Like I told Ralph here a while back, start holding
> your breath  :o)
> Darn!  It's hitting 107 INSIDE my shop right now.  I need to head back out
> to New Mexico, had a house there 5 years and LOVED it, I don't know what
> ever possessed us to move back "home", ratz.  I came down to the shop to sty
> out my new air hammer, but I think I'll find a piece of aluminum somewhere
> to practice on.  Say, I bet, within the next few years, there become a
> material available, probably plastic in nature(besides clay), that will
> forge exactly like steel, or is there?  I'd love to practice scrolls etc
> without the heat.
> Ok, Back to reality, let's see, Scotch.  Holding your breath???
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jerry Frost" <frosty at customcpu.com>
> To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2006 2:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Artist-Blacksmith
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>>From: "Steve Smith" <sos at alum.mit.edu>
>>
>>
>>>Scotch? Are you suggesting a plaid beret would suit
>>>Robert? I haven't met the man myself.
>>>
>>>Robert, scotch would do in place of a hot Damascas
>>>shoe.
>>>
>>>Steve
>>>
>>
>>
>>Oh, I NEVER suggest fashion. I'm a blue jeans and
>>flannel kind of guy myself. Come to think of it though,
>>my subconscious must've been suggesting a nice single
>>malt would best suit . . . . Us.
>>
>>Yes Robert, a nice single malt: sweet, smokey with just
>>the kiss of the peat. It doesn't have to be older than
>>granpa so long as it's smooth and takes to fresh
>>creek/well water nicely. Yes, yes indeed. That'd be
>>just the ticket to get yourself firmly ensconsed in the
>>family of blacksmiths in spite of trying to pass off a
>>hot check rather than an honest forged one.
>>
>>Frosty
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>>it ain't real.
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