[TheForge] Re: Demonstration and Pricing

[Peter Hirst]

Also Known as a "felting needle?"  COuldn't find anything under "Spinning 
NEedle"  except tattoo sites.

See new pic at "Sheep Stuff"  at

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "dan tull" <dantull at numail.org>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 7:49 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Re: Demonstration and Pricing


> 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.
>
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> ----- 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
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>> 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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