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

[Jerry Frost]

I like the ideas; both. On the same lines I got to thinking of adding 
ourselves to a cupola and having our markers poured from the charge.

I'm thinking the possibilities along this meme are as varied as are we.

Jer
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "peter fels" <artgawk at thegrid.net>
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pretty dead just now


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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> 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