[TheForge] The mind 1st to go

[peter fels & phoebe palmer]

  You inspire me to take a careful tour through my annealing ash bucket.
There are probably stamps and chisels buried there like fossils in repose.

On 10/9/2010 10:23 AM, Bob Ehrenberger wrote:
> I needed to texture some stock yesterday so I went to put the texturing dies
> on the power hammer.  They weren't by the hammer so I looked by the treadle
> hammer, not there either.  By the welding table? no. In the grinding room?,
> no.  Under the bench?, no. I was starting to get concerned and a little
> frustrated.  It was almost noon so I found some busy work, and broke for
> lunch.
>
> Arter lunch I took another look in all the places where they mught have,
> should have, been. No luck.
>
> I decided to proceed with the texturing using the fullering dies which are a
> bit too agrassive so I have to be real careful to use a light touch.  When
> texturing my second piece it hit me, they were in the vermiculite barrel.
> The last time I used them, about a month ago, one of them chipped.  I had
> made them from sucker rod and had just normalized them. So this time after
> fixind the chip I heated them up and stuck them in the vermiculite. And
> there they were, waiting for me to put them back into use.  I knew when I
> couldn't find them, that when they showed up it would make sense, and it
> did.
>
> Robert Ehrenberger
> Shelbyville, Mo.
> eforge at centurytel.net
>
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