[TheForge] Fwd: Mastermyr Project

[Daniel Kretchmar]

Below below is the letter I sent to to the board and their response.

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Leigh Morrell <lmorrell205 at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Sep 10, 2020, 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: Mastermyr Project
To: Daniel Kretchmar <dan at irontreeworks.com>
Cc: <board at abana.org>


We are diligently following up on this and understand your concern
regarding the display’s whereabouts.
Leigh Morrell

On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 5:48 PM Daniel Kretchmar <dan at irontreeworks.com>
wrote:

> To the Board of Directors of ABANA.
>
> I was upset to find out that after all the work we put into it, the
> Mastermyr Project has gone missing.  Can anyone in the area of Jonestown,
> Pennsylvania go to the trailer and see if it's there.   As a historical
> reenactor,  this project was something that I really put a lot of effort
> into. I didn't just make replicas of those 4 items.  I made copies of the
> tools that existed at the time out of bloomery iron and used those tools to
> make the replicas.  I built a Norse forge and bellows and made my own
> charcoal as a smith back then would done.  Once the project was completed,
> I had it shipped to me twice at my own expense so that I could put it on
> display at historical reenactments.  The idea that the project is sitting
> in some abandoned trailer in the middle of nowhere is quite upsetting.
>
> As one of the people who worked on the project (I made four pieces for it)
> I would be willing to take possession of it, store it and ship it out to
> people who request to put it on exhibit.  Let me know if this is a
> possibility.  The care and effort that went into this project should not be
> sitting in some forgotten trailer.
>
>
> Danr Kretchmar
> www.irontreeworks.com
>
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