[TheForge] So, what are you working on? (was: anybody there?)

[peter fels]

Bruce...there was an icewalker "blueprint" early on, at iforgeiron.com if i remember right.
On Feb 14, 2011, at 9:32 AM, Bruce Freeman wrote:

> D-ski,
> 
> What are you working on?
> 
> I've been out of the shop a couple weeks not because of the snow but
> because of the Arduino I'm playing with.  (Neat little open-source
> embedded computer.  www.Arduino.cc, if anyone's interested.)
> 
> Before that I was out of the shop, XC skiing.  Great snow for that.
> Hope we get more.  (It's nice not to have to commute....)
> 
> My next blacksmithing project will be to get my damascus blade blank
> (from NJBA's workshop this past Dec.) ready to receive a handle.  I
> also need to find my gas forge burner.  Always helps when firing up a
> forge.  Vanished, somewhere, but I think I've got a lead on it.
> Marshall's about ready to put a handle on his blade, and I'll be
> loaning him a few books on the subject.  After he masters all that, he
> can teach me!
> 
> Question for all:  Anyone know a really good design for ice walkers?
> I don't want crampons like ice climbers use, and I don't want the
> instep ice walkers I've seen described somewhere.  I'd like something
> that straps to the boot and has squarish (i.e., edged, not pointed)
> projections to grab the ice.  Does this ring any bells with anyone?
> 
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Albin Drzewianowski <dski1045 at qis.net> wrote:
>> I think that TheForge is working,  just nobody has much to say.
>> 
>> I think it has warmed up enough here in the mid-Atlantic that I can finally
>> get into the shop and do some forging.
>> 
>> D-ski
>> Westminster, MD
>> The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
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>>> bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Lynn Emrich
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>>> Subject: [TheForge] anybody there?
>>> 
>>> Just checking.
>>> 
>>> 
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> Bruce
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