[TheForge] Back on Topic -- Hammered in Last Week

[David E. Smucker]

Well, I made 20 new hardies for the John C. Campbell Folk School.  Last week 
was work week and while I had my daughter and son-in-law and 14 month old 
grandson visiting -- Andrew and I worked on the hardies.

They are a composite construction. Mild steel on the bottom and tool steel 
welded on the top.  Use Paul Garrett's Hy-Tuf steel for the working portion. 
We will see how they hold up in the hell of the Folk School.  Never have 
understood how students and instructors could be so damn hard on the 
equipment.  (Some instructors are the worst -- act like it is there job to 
prove that they can break things.)  Folks do things that they would never do 
in their own shop.  Comes with being a school I guess.

Dave

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Complete SNIP