While living in Nashville I enjoyed going to the yearly arts and crafts festival. There was a blacksmith set up there most every year. I did my treating and shaping with an oxy-aceteline set. Mostly did welding, fabricating, and tinkering with it, although I once strongly considered building a forge.
I recall here on the farm there being an old blacksmith set out in the woods. I was by it yesterday, but all that's left of it now is the big cast ring(or tub maybe) filled with concrete where they'd heat the metal. I can recall it standing on legs and having the blower attached, but the blower disappeared and the rest of it long since rusted and settled on into the black dirt we have here, and the top of it is only 6 or 8 inches off the ground
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