[TheForge] Forge welding...The unfortunate truth

[Jerry Frost]

Doesn't the military industrial complex work into this somewhere Pete?

Jer
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "peter fels" <artgawk at thegrid.net>
To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 1:30 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Forge welding...The unfortunate truth


> This whole preceding discussion is fatuous posturing and extremely 
> deceptive.
> It's a fabricated veil, drawn to protect the entrenched fabricating 
> industry.
> The unromantic reality is that almost all modern blacksmith joinery for 
> some years,
> Has been accomplished using pop rivets and crazy glue.
> All too often, crazy glue has been used to affix cheaply purchased, 
> Chinese pseudo-arc welder beads, used
> to cover the glue joints.
> The massive lobbying efforts of the  world wide pop-rivet monopoly has 
> successfully suppressed the disheartening  truth.
>
> I'm sorry to tell you this...but the truth must out!
>
> Forge welding? Hah!!!
>
> You'll thank me when you are older....pf
>