[TheForge] Re: living history demo for elementary students-whatwouldyou talk a

[Mike Spencer]

Grover wrote:

> At places that allow it, I let one of the grownups pick up a hammer
> and whack on a piece of 3/8.  I tell them to hit it hard.

I'm a little dubious about telling a novice -- anyone with little or
no experience with a hammer -- to hit something hard at the anvil

This derives from my own experience as a novice, doing my very first
job for someone else: I was making dome dogs from 3/8 round, it was
going to slowly and I figured that I should be hitting harder.  So I
did, much harder.  Missed the workpiece and hit the anvil.  The hammer
spalled and a pointy chunk of hammer went half an inch into the side
of my hand.  Might have been my eye.  Yow!

(In retrospect, I should have been using a bigger hammer.  But I
didn't know that then.)


FWIW,
- Mike

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