[TheForge] Re: How tongs came to be (Talmud)

[Ries Niemi]

I dont see how this story is all that different from Orlando Bloom 
fighting Jack Sparrow with a red hot sword he just forged.
In other words- it was written to make a good story, by somebody who 
has never actually gotten behind the curtain and seen how the Wizard 
really does it.
Even today, I know smiths who use wooden tooling, and just let it burn, 
making new ones as needed.
Glassblowers still blow some shapes into sacrificial wooden forms.
Wet wooden tongs could be used to forge iron quite easily, quick and 
easy to make from available materials.

Now me, personally, I never let the truth get in the way of a good 
story.


  Ries Niemi
Industrial Artist

http://www.RiesNiemi.com