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4:50 am
March 18, 2010
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Just ran across this. Yeah, I've always been a tool-maker.
Used to love doing pen & ink. We didn't have personal computers then. "Cut and paste" meant scissors and glue! Loved making adzes too. Made a lot of the two on the right and a fair number of the scoop adzes, some log cabin builders liked them.
“There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot,
but then there are others who, with the help of their art and their intelligence,
transform a yellow spot into the sun.” ~ Pablo Picasso ~
8:32 am
March 22, 2010
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Fixing machine tools Keyport Torpedo Station, Keyport WA.
Great looking catalog, super artwork.
Google patents, the old ones have lots of pen and ink drawings.
1:58 pm
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April 19, 2010
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wow ! 78.... i was in highschool in metal shop figuring out how to run the gas forge we had at school...and making knives and swords...neat catalogue Grant!
3:57 pm
March 22, 2010
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mmm.... I was 7.... I think I was more into breaking things than making them
Whatever you are, be a good one.
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4:15 pm
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April 22, 2010
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I wasnt blacksmithing yet- but I was making things full time.
I had just quit my job at the woofer factory, and had a shop on the third floor of an old taxidermist studio on Capitol Hill.
Had a bandsaw and a tablesaw and a small gas rig and a unimat, as I remember.
I was doing sheet metal, as the only tools required were a pair of snips.
Had my first solo art show that year at the Rosco Louie Gallery, in Pioneer square, lots of punk rock and crazy artists.
But about two years later, I got my hossfeld, and from then on it was downhill all the way.
4:15 pm
November 8, 2010
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I wasn't born yet. Heck, my parents didn't even know each other yet 🙂
Love the illustrations on the catalogue!
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4:16 pm
May 14, 2010
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Ahhhh, 1978... I was a senior in High School. :happy:
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July 9, 2010
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1978 - Fixing and testing Torpedoes at the Naval Torpedo Station, Keyport. Gene Chapman worked there too, but I didn't meet him until just 12 years ago. It's been fun every since!
My son is the Blacksmith
6:28 pm
June 9, 2010
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I was really into dodge ball.
6:39 pm
January 18, 2011
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I was in Denver struggling to get my business going,out if Denver now and back to struggling once again..........One of the toughest things back then was educating designers, builders,owners that there was something better than cast crap, 1/2'' twisted pickets, and flat black paint....Things have come a long way since then as far as the consumers knowing the difference between what we do and Joe's cut and weld......bm
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
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7:34 pm
May 22, 2010
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I was in Cheyenne, Wyoming in Junior High School. I think I was into girls at that time, and wrestling and track. Favorite past time there was catching all the ground squirrels (Prairie dogs)! There was a lot of them!
Brad Roland :hot:
8:12 pm
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September 25, 2010
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1978 - I was in Beaverton, OR, third grade and tearing up the neighborhood on my BMX bike or Camping and fishing with my family. 😀
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
Mark Twain
1:28 am
April 18, 2011
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In 1978 I was living on the road in a beat up econoline van doing silversmithing and selling my wares all over the country. I had a block and tackle hooked around front seat engine compartment ( remember all the fumes leaking into interior) to winch all of my tools,workbench,and display cases up and down rear ramp. Every week a new state. Furry freak days, giant ZZ Top beard, still had lots of hair on head. When adjusted for inflation actually made more money back then!!!!
2:43 am
May 27, 2010
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Uh, oh, Grant, our age is showing. I was specializing in colonial reproduction ironwork fulltime. Selling through Early American Life magazine and craft shows. Doing some teaching of blacksmithing, too.
Randy McDaniel
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"We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing." Oliver Wendell Holmes
6:12 am
August 4, 2010
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1978 I was in Newport News ship yard on board USS Mississippi CGN-40. I was part of the commissioning crew. I was promised a piece of the deck when it was decommissioned. But I never did get it. What surprised me was she was taken out of commission so quickly.
3:01 pm
April 12, 2011
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Grant;9773 wrote: Just ran across this. Yeah, I've always been a tool-maker.
In 1978 I had been out of High School for 6 months, had the casts removed from a late 1977 motorcycle wreck, married my wonderful wife (yes still together) and was wondering what to do with my life! (still sometimes wonder that).
Richard
3:55 pm
November 8, 2010
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This is pretty interesting.
I know a handful of people who have been forging for as long, but I don't know any groups with such a large number of people who've been at it for so long.
Great job guys and keep up the good work!
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12:48 am
December 19, 2010
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Wow, i am impressed. I was 5 years old in 78! I wish i knew as much as all you guys have forgotten!
1:00 am
March 18, 2010
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Yeah, I wish I knew as much as I've forgotten too! Not that I know so much, just that I'm real forgetful!
“There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot,
but then there are others who, with the help of their art and their intelligence,
transform a yellow spot into the sun.” ~ Pablo Picasso ~
1:03 am
March 18, 2010
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Randy;9793 wrote: Uh, oh, Grant, our age is showing. I was specializing in colonial reproduction ironwork fulltime. Selling through Early American Life magazine and craft shows. Doing some teaching of blacksmithing, too.
Pretty cool there Randy!
“There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot,
but then there are others who, with the help of their art and their intelligence,
transform a yellow spot into the sun.” ~ Pablo Picasso ~
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