[TheForge] how to set up for a wheelchair bound smith

[jstapleford at hvc.rr.com]

The work I mentioned was done at the Lemelson Center at the College.  You can probably contact someone there.  


---- jstapleford at hvc.rr.com wrote: 
> Bill Senseney did a lot of work with the staff at Hampshire College in Amherst , MA, working on eqipment to let handicapped persons forge.  I haven't been up there for awhile but I will see if I can get any current info.
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> ---- Jim Guy <jguy1 at ix.netcom.com> wrote: 
> > Quite some time ago there was a thread on TheForge on setting up a shop to
> > teach handicapped students and .   There's a man in our guild who is
> > striving to help a wheel-chair bound friend get into blacksmithing, and
> > possibly do something for the Wounded Warrior project.
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> > What have you found works?  (shop layout, anvil position)
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> > How do you protect the person and their wheel chair?
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> > Where can we go for more information?
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> > Jim 
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> > Conyers, Ga.
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