[TheForge] ruminations, not entirely cheerful, but the board is pretty dead just now

[peter fels]

Grin...reduced to that...
Imagine if  the stuff of each of your hammers came from a smith who proceeded you..
I like it.

On Aug 12, 2011, at 9:24 PM, blakkpawss at yahoo.com wrote:

> I like the idea.  I'll take it one step further into the weird and say we add the resultant carbon to steel to make knives, swords, axes, and hammers with.
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> From: peter fels <artgawk at thegrid.net>
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> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:10:32 
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> Subject: Re: [TheForge] ruminations, not entirely cheerful,
> 	but the board is pretty dead just now
> 
> 
> Yet another fellow smith is on his way out and a growing number of my metal working friends and peers,
> have been doing involuntary dances with doctors....
> Found myself feeling more mortal than usual...posted this in that context on another board..
> 
>> Loving fire, and having the expertise we do....
>> I wonder if there isn't a grim gothy niche here,
>> Featuring forging parties  for our fellow metal molesters..
>> to come and gather on the occasion of our respective demises,
>> and use the fierce heat of our cremations,
>> to hammer out our grave-marker artifact,
>> and drink a whole lot of our booze.
>> A sort of metal sculptors' equivalent of a
>> 'New Orleans Jazz funeral....
>> And harness the power of creative melancholy.
> pf
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