Subject: Re: Definitions

From: [email-masked] (Phill Jackson)
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 08:55:42 -0800

**To second your remarks**

>It follows then that maybe it is somewhat hypocritical to allow the use of
>a power
>hammer or even a treadle hammer while prohibiting the torch.

***At a recent workshop, the master smith showed us a video of a Polish
smithy that had been in continuous operation for literally hundreds of
years.  The central feature of the shop was a huge power hammer;  a great
wooden beam with a tremendous hammer head, the whole thing powered by a
water wheel.***

>better off to have nothing but 20lb sledges.  People tell me that I was born
>100 years too late,

**Obviously these good folks have never examined the tools of the dentist
or surgeon of the 1890's**

Phill Jackson