Subject: Re: blacksmithing

From: [email-masked] (Clay Spencer)
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 21:52:51 -0500

At 2:01 PM 3/15/96, Ralph Snel wrote:
>> I agree with you, Mike.  I've seen too much cold-worked and arc welded
>> stuff labeled *forged*.
>Is that where forgery comes from? :)

I think this is something that we need to work on seriously to put out
definitions for different types of work and then educate the public about
what they mean.

That would be the easy part.

Then we would have to have some means of enforcing and policing the standards.
It would probably require getting some laws passed to  define types of work.
We would then have to sue a few and win a case or two before we could get
recoginition of standards.

Or does someone have any easier ways to make it happen?
Clay

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From: Aaron Britton <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 11:54:10 -0800 (PST)

> Or does someone have any easier ways to make it happen?

I don't think you would need the standards.  After educating the public 
they would be able to tell the difference between the "different types of 
work".  It is like art, if you understand it you can tell the differenc, 
but if you are a laymen you will not be able to tell the difference let 
alone the meaning.
Aaron 
Davis, CA