[TheForge] Re: Sad Day in my Shop.

Sat Dec 1 22:09:11 EST 2007

LOL::
Bet it'd outsell T-shirts at the next BS conference..pf

Jerry Frost wrote:
> I bow to your age and sagacity Mike. While I love spinning a "good" 
> yarn, (I know that comes as a REAL surprise to you guys but it's true.) 
> I hadn't thought of deliberately baiting the audience. <head hung in shame>
> 
> I'll start rooting through my collection of oddness and thinking of 
> "interesting" attachment methods. I'm still looking for a stuffed Wile 
> E. Coyote doll to cushion my anvil with.
> 
> Frosty
> -------------------------------
> If it ain't forged
> it ain't real.
> Wrought iron is.
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> 
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> 
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> 
> From: "Mike Spencer" <mspencer at tallships.ca>
> 
> 
>>
>> Nail them to a post in your shop.  Every blacksmith should have
>> something inexplicable -- preferably numerous such things things --
>> propped, hung, welded, nailed or otherwise exhibited about the shop.
>> Watch people be afraid to ask why there is a sandal nailed to the
>> wall.  Have a good yarn ready for those few who can work up the
>> courage to ask.  As you age and the sandal(s) get even more ancient
>> and grimy with forge dust, the yarn will expand and grow and adapt.
>>
>> Gee, do I have to tell you young guys *everything*?
>>
>> :-)
>> - Mike
>>
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