[TheForge] first fire

[Tod Estes]

Welcome back!
Quoting "Mark A. Pesetsky" <pesetsky at Princeton.EDU>:

> Now THAT made my day...Glad to hear that you are back in the fire...Be safe,
> enjoy and GOD BLESS!!!
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> Mark
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> From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net on behalf of Bob
> Sent: Sun 8/26/2007 5:44 PM
> To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [TheForge] first fire
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> After 30 years, I have a smithy set up in my back yard. Simple steel
> table with a firepot and a blower, 260 lb southern German style anvil on
> an elm stump, a hammer, a pair of tongs and 100 lbs of coal. Made my
> first tool today (fire poker/coal rake). Hammer control after 30 years
> of not smithing is weak but will improve with daily work.
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> I've wanted to do this since I was 18. I had some experience at the Fort
> Snelling restoration 3 decades ago in Minneapolis. Did some nails (about
> 900) and learned to forge weld.
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> I'm back in the game and enjoying it. This is a great list and i hoist a
> beer to you all.
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> Bob Brashear
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Tod Estes

People do not care about how much you know
until they know about how much you care.