[TheForge] Re: Demonstration and Pricing

[dan tull]

Have often been asked to do spinning needles. A small(6" long) wire w/ hook 
on the end to grab the yarn and pull thru a small hole. Looks like an 
elongated question mark.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Hirst" <saltydog335 at aol.com>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Re: Demonstration and Pricing


> 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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