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From: mspencer@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: trial.rec.metalworking
Subject: Re: New forge - let's see what happens
Message-ID: <1991May30.202611.434@ac.dal.ca>
Date: 30 May 91 23:26:11 GMT
References: <1991May28.223635.20508@netcom.COM>
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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In article <1991May28.223635.20508@netcom.COM>, wolf@netcom.COM (Buckskin Tech.) writes:
> Well, my friend Boots and I just finished building a coal forge for an
> upcoming Renaissance Faire.  As this will be an "historically accurate"
> demonstration of 'smithing in the late 1500's, it might not have much
> intersection with this group, but I'd be interested in hearing comments
> suggestions (please!), [........]

Umm....if it's 16th c. period, hadn't you better use charcoal?  And
not bricquettes, either :-).

>  - Wolf
> 
> PS:  Anyone have a copy of _De Re Metallica_?  Found a reprint in a bookstore
> once and didn't buy it, now I wish I had.

That's a Dover publication, and I thot it was still in print.  Check
with yr friendly neighborhood bookstore.