[TheForge] Doffer (Was: blackened steel finish)

[williamsiron at comcast.net]

Jerry, 



Please send me a photo. williamsiron at comcast.net   I have some friends who are seriously into weaving. 



Thanks. 



Mark Williams 

Snow Hill, Maryland 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Frost" <akfrosty at mtaonline.net> 
To: mspencer at tallships.ca, "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net> 
Sent: Friday, July 2, 2010 1:19:43 PM 
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Doffer (Was: blackened steel finish) 

Hey Mike, glad to see another steel wool couple! 

The doffers I'm making are the awl on a handle but fancier and just plain 
better tools than the blunted ice pick commercial versions. 

DANG!!! I've just spent a good half hour trying to figure out how to upload 
a couple pics to Photoaccess but it won't let me unless I install a couple 
apps and I'd rather not open my computer to malware. The old system had a 
"Browse" button so you could select a pic file and click "Upload" and it was 
a done deal. 

Anyone interested in a pic I'll be happy to send em on the side. Deb and I 
have to go to Anchorage today to visit a friend of hers who's husband was 
injured about as badly as I was in a drilling accident so it may be tomorrow 
or sunday before I get back. Don't let me forget if I don't get back in a 
reasonable time, I forget things more often now. <sigh> 

Jer 
------------------------- 
If it ain't forged 
It ain't real 
wrought iron is 
The Frostworks 



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Spencer" <mspencer at tallships.ca> 
To: <theforge at mailman.qth.net> 
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 9:55 PM 
Subject: [TheForge] Doffer (Was: blackened steel finish) 


> 
> Mark Williams  wrote: 
> 
>> Okay, Jerry, I'll bite. What's this doffer you're hawking to fiber 
>> folk? 
> 
> 
> Since my wife is a weaver and has a small carding mill, I asked her. 
> She didn't know.  After some digging, I think the answer is either: 
> 
>   + part of an industrial carding mill that pulls the carded wool (or 
>     whatever) off the main drum, or 
> 
>   + a longish awl to do the same on a home-sized carding mill. 
> 
> So, Jerry:  put us straight.  Longish awl with a fancy handle?  Or what? 
> 
> 
> 
> - Mike 
> 
> -- 
> Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~. 
>                                                           /V\ 
> mspencer at tallships.ca                                     /( )\ 
> http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/                        ^^-^^ 
> 

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