Subject: Re: Midwest tool collectors

From: [email-masked] (Roger V. Petrella Jr.)
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 21:06:49 -0700

You wrote: 
>
>Another good reason to join this group is the tool sales they have
>that are open to members only. Jim Price (president) tells me the
>blacksmith tools aren't in much demand, at least compared to the
>planes that are so collectible, and as such can be bought cheap from
>the members. Quite often these guys will buy a lot of tools at an
>auction trying to get one special item and they deal pretty good on
>the "junk" like tongs and hardies and such. By the way, Jim Price is
>an archeologist for the forest service and a real good source on
>identifying odd tools. One of his specialties is tools made from other
>items. He can tell you the history of many old trades including
>blacksmithing. We use him as a reference on a lot of the stories we do
>in the Rural Missouri magazine I edit. He is a blacksmith and a master
>woodworker (makes coffins!), works out of a historic shop in Naylor.
>
>-- 
>Jim McCarty
>Father Helias Forge
>Taos, MO
>Editor Rural Missouri Magazine
>Newsletter editor, Blacksmiths Association of Missouri
>
>³Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of little minds³
>
>
>Jim,

Could you tell me how to join the Midwest Tool Collectors?  Sounds like 
an interesting group.  Also, can you give me any info on the rural 
Missouri Magazine.  Thanks in advance.

Roger Petrella
Broomfield, CO

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From: Jim McCarty <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1996 12:11:21 -0500

Roger V. Petrella Jr. wrote:
> >3Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of little minds3
> >
> >
> >Jim,
> 

Hi Roger,
Someone posted this info yesterday, but I must have deleted it. Bet we 
can get a repost ont he tool group. As for Rural Missouri, I am teh 
editor of that publication. It is put out by Missouri's electric 
co-ops, you have a similar publication called Colorado Country in  
your state.

You can subscribe cheap -- $11.70 for three years or $4.43 per year. 
It's a tabloid format magazine, strong on photo feature stories, 
recipes, personalities, cooepratives in general, very little company 
line. Would be glad to send you a sample copy -- just send me your 
mailing address.

I run an ad in the publication seeking blacksmith tools. Have had 
great luck -- it reaches 385,000 rural people and there are lots of 
tools out there. Been buying complete shops when I have the money.

Take care, Jim