[TheForge] Fw: Stonehenge

Andrew Vida osan at netlabs.net
Tue Mar 31 20:09:07 EDT 2009



Mike Linn wrote:
> Ya know.. this whole discussion reminds me of the time I had a fairly 
> young machinist poo poo blacksmithing at one of my art show demos. 
>  I was doing my spiel on "by hammer and hand"  etc... when he pipes off 
> about how inferior blacksmithing is to modern machining.. 
> 
> so I asked him..  "How long will it take you to put a 1/2 inch hole 
> through a section of 1/2 inch round stock ?"
> 
> He noodled on it a bit and said it couldnt be done...  

	Wasn't much of a machinist, I'd say.


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