[TheForge] Re: Demonstration and Pricing

[Peter Hirst]

Yes, thanks for the heads ups.  I will have my daughter with me, who is very 
able and not shy.  We are both performers in other lives and very 
audience-savvy, so it should be a good team.   I am planning on having a tub 
of cold bevvies for friends, family, colleagues and really good customers. 
I was a firefighter/ EMT in a really former lfe, so very safety conscious. 
Yes ropes around everything, ( I have some very cool 1" hemp and hand forged 
rods with eyes) including a buffer zone from the anvil,  and a bucket of 
those $4.00 eye protectors for the front row.  Welding masks for the really 
obnoxious ones.  Fire extinguishers, big ones, mostly for the statement they 
make.

By the way, anyone know of any sheep related iron stuff?  Shepherd's crook? 
Sheep bells?  Branding irons?  Spinning or weaving tools?  There are also 
chickens, goats, donkeys, Scottish Highland cattle involved.  No horses yet, 
but that could happen too.

;-}


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Grover.Richardson at gtri.gatech.edu>
To: <mspencer at tallships.ca>; <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 3:42 PM
Subject: RE: [TheForge] Re: Demonstration and Pricing


-----Original Message-----
From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Mike Spencer
> Children and adults are not knowledgeable or don't care.  I actually
> yelled "HOT HOT HOT HOT" with increasing volume as I watched a
> mother and 4 children walk right through my area when the forge was
> running.

If you see someone about to get burned or otherwise hurt, physically
restrain them.  Better that a belligerent moron charge you with
assault than that they sue you for enough to keep them in new His 'n
Hers Lamborghinis for life because little Johnny got a pointy thing up
his nose.

Yes.  I was on the other side of the booth area talking with a customer
and they walked between items closely spaced to keep people out.
Agreed.


This is also another good reason always to have a helper, preferably a
good friend who is reasonably bright.  In addition to selling stuff
while you're hammering, (s)he can be alert to potential risks to the
public that you weren't able to anticipate before the fact.

The wife and I tag team at events.

All the Best

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