Subject: Re: Anvil Ring: feature stories

From: [email-masked] (Raymond Coon)
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 13:01:23 -0800

>>To: George Dixon
>>From: [email-masked] (Steve Joslyn)
>>Subject: Anvil Ring:  feature stories
>>
>>Dear George,
>>
>>   I was recently paging through old ring issues and I had a thought.
Would'nt it be interesting to feature a different shop in each issue of the
Ring. There is enough working shops across the country and a lot could be
learned. Along with the interview could be regional highlights and a focus
on the local chapter. I think it would very interesting to see how other
shops are layed out, the unique tools and machinery each smith has developed
to "make life easier". It would be great to put a place and face on some of
our membership. If the Ring doesn't have a reporter who would travel, then
the regional chapter could choose a shop and create an artical.
>   Does anyone else have additional ideas?
>Steve Joslyn
>Joslyn Studios Fine Metalwork Inc.
>1841 LeMoyne Ave
>Syracuse, NY 13208
>(315) 454-3855
>[email-masked]
>
One of the knife magazines (Blade or Knife something) has a regular section
called "Shop Tour" where they feature just what you are talking about, only
for knifemakers.  It's _very_ interesting and informative.

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From: Steve Smith <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 96 14:42:27 MST

Shop tours would be very interesting. What would also be neat would be
to feature whatever the shop denizens considered to be interesting or
innovative tooling they were using, whether they originated it or not.
One picture...

You could probably get an interesting column by asking people for
pictures of tooling that was really bizaare, whether it worked or not.
Maybe a little competition along this line would be amusing. How Rube
Goldberg of a holddown can YOU dream up?

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Steve Smith
[email-masked]