Subject: Re: The most important tools for a blacksmith. Ox sling.

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 11:36:21 EDT

>The slings were used to lift the ox so the legs could be lifted to
>shoe the ox. The ox could not balance itself on three legs like the
>horse, so a sling was needed. Any more comments on this one?

Imagine the poor soul that discovered that fact]

Perhaps we could cooperate with a web site to collect a faq and have
illustrated tools. I suspect some of the material in our libraries
is public domain, and could be scanned in to a blacksmith tool web
page. Is the Beale book still copyrighted? It has some nice line
drawings on tool construction.

Thanks
Vance

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From: Muralynd <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 11:35:40 -0500

> illustrated tools. I suspect some of the material in our libraries

 I can provide some web space to such an endevour, at two different sites 
even so we could `mirror' them (Helps cut down on outages)

 If someone will scan the images and give me some help I'll be happy to put 
something up.

> drawings on tool construction.

 I've got some that are public domain, mostly stuff like `these are the parts 
of an anvil/hammer/forge/whatever' that a friend that started teaching me did 
up. I'll see if I can get those scanned and setup to give some idea of what I 
can do with this.

 current blacksmith stuff on my page is at
http://www.networkamerica.com/~muralynd/smith.html or, exactly the same but 
put netusa1.net in instead of networkamerica.com <-- both on T1s, one in 
Indiana (netusa1.net) and the other (networkamerica.com) in New York.

 Mike

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