[TheForge] cheap top swages

[Jerry Frost]

This isn't so bad, I've been in Museums that managed to misidentify 
everything but the anvil. One in SE Alaska had a manakin (sp?) wearing a 
leather apron holding a drill bit on the anvil and a top swage upside down 
in it's right. The forge was set up with the blower crank on the far side 
and the shield nearest the "smith." Oh yeah, it was wearing yellow safety 
glasses. Gotta be safe you know.

A misidentification that saves a fellow a few bucks is a good thing.

Frosty The Lucky.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Albin Drzewianowski" <dski1045 at qis.net>
To: <blakkpawss at yahoo.com>; "'Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA'" 
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Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2012 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] cheap top swages


>I got that same catalog in today's mail and got a big chuckle out of the
> fact that they were describing these as British  Military WWII hammers.
> You'd think someone would have tipped the copy editor to the fact that 
> they
> were blacksmith tools.
>
> D-ski
> Westminster, MD
> The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
>
>