[TheForge] Hammer face dressing

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

Once listened to the master Hersom, in response to that Q., 
launch into an elaborate explanation about sewing up little 
carefully hemmed dresses to store one's hammer's in at night...pf

Paul Novorolsky wrote:
> I wasn't sure if the question was "what does dress the hammer mean?" or 
> "why dress it after tempering?".
> 
> I'm a bit of a "literal thinker",  so I aometimes get confused.
> 
> I'm also old enough  to decide things for myself. So I chose to answer 
> the first, mostly because I thought I could.
> 
> I consider myself an experienced  beginner, and not completely worthy of 
> offering advice.
> However, as I had recently spent a Sunday night surfing, and one my 
> destinations was the ABANA educational sites, where there was some 
> information about dressing your hammer. About 1/3 of the way down this: 
> http://www.abana.org/downloads/controlled%20hand%20forging/CHF_11_part2.pdf 
> you'll find some information about dressing your hammer.
> 
> I hope I was able to contribute as least something...
> 
> I'll leave the global warming question for Al Gore.
> 
> 
> **Paul
> 
> 
> 
> Harry wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>>    I occasionally see the phrase, "The face of the hammer has been
>>    dressed after tempering". What the heck does that mean? And why
>>    wasn't the face "dressed" before tempering? Wouldn't it have been
>>    easier?
>>    Enough questions, spent all day pushing snow. I am officially SICK OF
>>    IT! Where is all that global warming all of those Henny Penny's at
>>    the first annual "The sky is falling" convention in gay Paree were
>>    squawking about? Dangit! that was a question too.
>>
>> Harry
>> in Iowa
>> in the snow
>> Glad the power is back on
>>   
> 
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