[TheForge] hardies and other accoryies for the anvil

[xlch58 at swbell.net]

Here is a link to a story related to the granddaddy of them all, at 
least in the twentieth century,

<http://news.siu.edu/news/February03/021303r3025.html>

SIU I think was the one that kicked it all off (blacksmithing 
rennesaiance) in the seventies at Carbondale.  I have run into others 
including a couple in Colorado that  I saw when visiting colleges with 
my son.   Both of  us took note.   There was a  summer course offered at 
Colorado Springs campus I recall. 

Charles


Demon Buddha wrote:

> Which ones?
>
> xlch58 at swbell.net wrote:
>
>> schade at acegroup.cc wrote:
>>
>>> On May 22, 2006, at 7:17 PM, Jeffrey Polaski wrote:
>>>
>>>> I don't know if you can weld or not, but it's a good skill to have 
>>>> as a
>>>> blacksmith. Very worthwhile if there's a local junior college around.
>>>>
>>>> If you can weld, then you can make a lot of hardie tools (and other
>>>> stuff) easily. I imagine you could forge-weld them if you wanted.
>>>>
>>>> Jeff Polaski
>>>>
>>>
>>> Go to college to learn how to forge weld?
>>>
>>> Bob
>>>
>> Not as strrange as it might seem.  I have seen more than one college 
>> offer blacksmithing in a fine arts program.
>> Charles
>>