[TheForge] TheForge Digest, Vol 78, Issue 39
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Re: CQ, CQ the heat may have something to do with it. it has been above 100 degrees most of the last two weeks here in northern Calif. Also, quite by accident I just now discovered that the forge had been being sent to spam. I do not know why. Just happened to look for something else and there it was. ray
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Today's Topics:
1. CQ CQ Anyone out there? (Jerry Frost)
2. Re: CQ CQ Anyone out there? (Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer)
3. RE: CQ CQ Anyone out there? (Mike Spencer)
4. Sonn - three volume set (Steve Bloom)
5. Re: CQ CQ Anyone out there? (Bob)
6. Re: CQ CQ Anyone out there? (Jerry Smith)
7. Re: CQ CQ Anyone out there? (dan tull)
8. Re: Sonn - three volume set (mlforge at cebridge.net)
9. Re: Sonn - three volume set (Mike Spencer)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:53:39 -0800
From: "Jerry Frost" <akfrosty at mtaonline.net>
Subject: [TheForge] CQ CQ Anyone out there?
To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
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This has been about as quiet as I've ever seen theforge. Where is everybody?
Out BBQing, relaxing and generally celebrating great success I hope.
Frosty
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If it ain't forged
It ain't real
wrought iron is
The Frostworks
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:02:49 -0700
From: Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer <artgawk at thegrid.net>
Subject: Re: [TheForge] CQ CQ Anyone out there?
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Ain't nobodys
Jerry Frost wrote:
> This has been about as quiet as I've ever seen theforge. Where is everybody?
> Out BBQing, relaxing and generally celebrating great success I hope.
>
> Frosty
> -------------------------
> If it ain't forged
> It ain't real
> wrought iron is
> The Frostworks
>
>
>
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:37:16 -0300
From: mspencer at tallships.ca (Mike Spencer)
Subject: [TheForge] RE: CQ CQ Anyone out there?
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> This has been about as quiet as I've ever seen theforge. Where is
> everybody? Out BBQing, relaxing and generally celebrating great
> success I hope.
Well jeez, Frosty, my summer is getting crowded, what with -- count
them -- three social events formal enough to require clean jeans. Art
opening at the beach today, Maritime Blacksmiths' meet on Sunday.
Visitors next month.
Usual summer stuff, y'know. Practicing up for a demo, weeding the
garden, watching tomatoes ripen, trying to outsmart the colony of rats
that's moved into the compost heap, picking raspberries, putting
firewood into the woodshed, eating salad and broccoli soup, making
pesto.
The hummingbirds love the scarlet runner beans, the sparrows, robins
and finches love the birdbath, the chipmunks love the raspberries
until we live-trap and relocate them.
Forty years here and if we had a week of 80+F days in August, that was
a heat wave. It's been over 80 here most days for a fortnight. Last
year there were two 80 degree days in *April*, unheard of. I think our
beer consumption might soar this year, up to three cases from two.
Gotta go pick some greens and basil for that salad...
- Mike
--
Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~.
/V\
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:49:38 -0400
From: Steve Bloom <smith at blacksmithing.org>
Subject: [TheForge] Sonn - three volume set
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Greetings all ---
I have the three volumes of Sonn's Early American Wrought Iron (NOT
the 3-in-1 but the original three volume set). They are in fair
condition. Does anyone have an idea of what's a fair price? I'll
probably haul them to the Madison Conference in May 2011 and pass them on.
Steve Bloom (FABA Editor)
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:52:50 -0500
From: Bob <rjbrash at hutman.net>
Subject: Re: [TheForge] CQ CQ Anyone out there?
To: Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
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On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 14:53 -0800, Jerry Frost wrote:
> This has been about as quiet as I've ever seen theforge. Where is everybody?
> Out BBQing, relaxing and generally celebrating great success I hope.
>
> Frosty
> -------------------------
> If it ain't forged
> It ain't real
> wrought iron is
> The Frostworks
>
>
BBQ, gardening, weightlifting, going to fencing tournaments, whacking on
hot metal, watching the economy tank, getting ready for the kid to go to
college.
Hardly time for email.
Bob
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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:04:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jerry Smith <jerry_smith at anvilsandinkstudios.com>
Subject: Re: [TheForge] CQ CQ Anyone out there?
To: Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Message-ID: <879589.98310.qm at web1214.biz.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
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How about this, it was way TOO HOT out today to be doing anything with fire. My
area had high heat alert and all medically required things were to be done for
those who need them.
Jerry
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From: Bob <rjbrash at hutman.net>
To: Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Fri, July 23, 2010 7:52:50 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] CQ CQ Anyone out there?
On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 14:53 -0800, Jerry Frost wrote:
> This has been about as quiet as I've ever seen theforge. Where is everybody?
> Out BBQing, relaxing and generally celebrating great success I hope.
>
> Frosty
> -------------------------
> If it ain't forged
> It ain't real
> wrought iron is
> The Frostworks
>
>
BBQ, gardening, weightlifting, going to fencing tournaments, whacking on
hot metal, watching the economy tank, getting ready for the kid to go to
college.
Hardly time for email.
Bob
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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:17:44 -0400
From: "dan tull" <dantull at numail.org>
Subject: Re: [TheForge] CQ CQ Anyone out there?
To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
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I forge welded on the sidewalk today.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Smith" <jerry_smith at anvilsandinkstudios.com>
To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 10:04 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] CQ CQ Anyone out there?
> How about this, it was way TOO HOT out today to be doing anything with
> fire. My
> area had high heat alert and all medically required things were to be done
> for
> those who need them.
>
> Jerry
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Message: 8
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:28:41 -0400
From: <mlforge at cebridge.net>
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Sonn - three volume set
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Message: 9
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:05:54 -0300
From: mspencer at tallships.ca (Mike Spencer)
Subject: [TheForge] Re: Sonn - three volume set
To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
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> I have the three volumes of Sonn's Early American Wrought Iron (NOT
> the 3-in-1 but the original three volume set). They are in fair
> condition. Does anyone have an idea of what's a fair price?
I'd consult a reputable rare book dealer. Dimitri Gerakaris has the
set so you might ask him what they're worth. IIRC, he got them, along
with some other rare gems, when a friend's father, who was a rare book
guy, passed away. The friend picked out all the ironwork books from
his father's stock and passed them on to Dimitri.
Bert Shaw, the guy who got me into smithing, was a rural New England
smith who spent his winters in Arkansas shoeing mules to get away from
the harsh winters. If they were having a colder than usual winter in
Arkansas, he'd go on to Florida and work for the circus, maintaining
circus gear. When I met him, in his home town in Massachusetts, he
opined that he was too old to to "real" blacksmithing. So he borrowed
one of the Sonn volumes from the Amherst Town Library and started
knocking out copies of whatever he saw there that he liked.
He had his own little shop across from his house but a newly organized
Arts and Crafts center had offered him a *centrally heated* space for
a shop so he became the Blacksmith in Residence. Some faculty folks
from UMass that were involved in the center saw him turning out the
Sonn repros as well as custom stuff for rural people, all the while
spinning yarns, telling outrageous lies and spitting on the floor
while smoking horrible, nasty little cigars -- these academic types saw
all this and were totally smitten. The arranged for him to get an
honorary Ph.D. from UMass.
He nailed the parchment to a post in his shop with a big old spike and
after that, if some self-important, touristy type was getting too
familiar, what with "Say, Bert, this...." and "Oh, Bert, that...",
he'd take his cigar out of his mouth, spit on the floor, point at the
parchment and reply, "That's 'Doctor Shaw', if you don't mind!"
So I have fond memories of Sonn. Nobody then knew that within a very
few years, there'd be a revival in smithing and the books would become
valuable collector's volumes.
- Mike
--
Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~.
/V\
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http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/ ^^-^^
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