[TheForge] Re: how many? (Not so very OT)

[Jerry Frost]

Good idea MIke.

It's at least worth finding out which manufacturers out 
there are willing to sponser a conference. There are a 
number willing to advertise in the Ring and Blow.

Something said in an earlier post has been bothering me 
a little. There was a statement that lead me to think 
they believed an ABANA or other blacksmithing 
conference should be reserved for blacksmiths.

It strikes me as an odd thing to think if that's what 
the thought was. I personally think the more people 
attending the better. I mean heck, a lot of us would do 
this full time if there was a living in it for more 
than a few. I'd be trying to get it covered by every 
media I could scam into it. I mean really.

Come see the blacksmiths! FIRE! SMOKE! GLOWING METAL! 
BIG HAMMERS! NOISE NOISE NOISE! See how it was done a 
couple thousand years ago! Was YOUR grandfather a 
blacksmith? Well, here's a single location where you 
can tell hundreds of living breathing blacksmiths all 
about it! Bring your horse, we'll SHOO it! (sorry, I 
couldn't resist<grin>)

It's like the idea a student shouldn't or can't make a 
buck while they learn. Foooey! What better way to 
motivate a student than to show them there's a buck in 
it?

So, what better way to sell your work than invite the 
population of every country in this hemisphere to come 
watch you?

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.

http://www.artmetalradio.com/

From: "Mike" <mspencer at tallships.ca>


>
> So how about businesses like Harbor Freight or 
> Princess Auto? [2] How
> about state agricultural schools? [3] How about [you 
> think of some
> possibilities.]  Such an entity acting as a patron 
> might be able to
> offer a serviced, sheltered, insured venue.  They 
> might be able to use
> their business connections to get others to provide 
> some of the
> infrastructure such as bleachers, tents, compressors, 
> net access or
> extra insurance.  They might be able to handle some 
> of the admin load
> for those aspects.
>
> So the trick would be to identify some candidates and 
> then persuade
> one of them that they would benefit -- in sales, 
> community relations,
> advertising or whatever -- from being associated in a 
> very visible way
> with the project.
>
> Or maybe I have delusions of bright-idea grandeur.
>
> FWIW,
>
> - Mike
>
>
> [1] Which I'm not and won't be.  I can't praise 
> highly enough the work
>    of Wayne Jay, Brad Allen and the other supporters 
> & volunteers who
>    put together the splendidly successful CanIron V. 
> I don't have
>    the patience or the skills so I'm grateful for 
> those who do.
>
> [2] Say what? A thousand tool users will *pay* to 
> come to our site?
>
> [3] We have tractors, combines and a practicum in the 
> General Theory of
>    Damp Dirt.  What's a little soot?
>
> -- 
> Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada 
> .~.
> 
> /V\