Subject: Ring a round, the circular topic

From: [email-masked] (Gene Olson and Chris Wilson)
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 21:50:11 -0400 (EDT)

Hey Cynthia,

and all

Marcia McEachron, our ever busy editor of "The Metalsmythe" just faxed me a
copy of a page from the Summer 1996 HOT IRON NEWS from the NorthWest
Blacksmith Association

The Editor is Gene Chapman PO Box 1038, Kingston, WA 98346 (206) 297-2495

Haven't tried it yet, but I'll bet reprints are avail. for a suitable donation.

It's titled 

Ring Roll by Art Miller, Riverside CA.

It looks like a hand crank on a movable roller that is adjusted with a screw
jack made from a great big bolt. It says the rollers are made of pipe with
welded in ends. I can barely read the copy on this fax but it looks simple
to make, easily adjustable and "cheep"  

Which is good news for us birds who haven't learned another song.

Marcia McEachron and I are talking about putting together a Guild of
Metalsmiths workshop at my studio to build a few of these little buggers.

Anybody interested?  The shop is midway between St. Cloud and Minneapolis.

later.

Gene

 The Studios of Gene Olson and Chris Wilson  Metals, Stone, Mixed Media
  8600 NE O'DEAN AVE, ELK RIVER, MN 55330
  URL: http://www.concentric.net/~mettlewk/

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From: "Dr. Mark E. Williams" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 10:07:32 -0400

Ed Grove of the New England Blacksmiths Guild has plans for a ring roller for
$5. I've seen it work and it does a real nice job.

Mark

-- 
Dr. Mark E. Williams
Bldg N-159, Rm E-215
NASA/GSFC/WFF/EG&G
Wallops Island, VA 23337
804-824-1744
[email-masked]

Be ye doers of the word and not hearers only, lest ye deceive yourselves.
New Testament, the Bible

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From: Jim McCarty <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 1996 09:41:08 -0500

> The Editor is Gene Chapman PO Box 1038, Kingston, WA 98346 (206) 297-2495

If you talk to Gene Chapman send him congratulations on winning 
ABANA's Joe Humble Award for the top chapter newsletter.

-- 
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