[Sca-cooks] Drakey's Disasters- was Evil Science Projects etc

[Bill Fisher]

I was smithing at an event in ACG up in Aethelmearc years ago, and I had never
smithed in garb before, something I should have worked out before hand, long
before hand.

It was a brisk day and I was wearing a wool tunic and some trous, but mundane
footwear.  I was making impements that could be used in the nearby kitchen 
demo that THL Ras was running, or at least trying to as my fire and the wind
would permit.

I also had some scrap rods there for people to try it themselves with 
supervision,  of course.

I was showing this young lady how to make a fork (not a medieval implement,
but a colonial one) and I had heated and twisted the rods together and had them 
re-heating in the forge before starting the hammer work on it.   I
reached down with the tongs and as I looked at the metal and picked up
the hammer, the lady said:

"uhm, sir, your shirt is smoking"

Near as I can figure I must have brushed aonother peice that I had
added to the fire
as I turned, with the sleeve of my tunic.

I looked at her,  looked at my sleeve, said "interesting"
crushed out the smoke with my gloved hand and went back to work on the fork.

The autocrat came over a little later after reports that "Cadoc was on
fire....again"
reached her from the neighboring exhibits.

:-)  I'm just glad it was a wool tunic - it had the presence of mind
to smoulder.


Cadoc
(who misses being able to do smith work since he now lives in the city)





On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 01:39:08 -0700 (PDT), Huette von Ahrens
<ahrenshav at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Well, I heard that story from the Master's mouth.
> 
> And I could tell you stories about Master Atar
> that would scare the bejesus out of you ...
> but not on this forum.
> 
> Huette
> 
> --- marilyn traber 011221 <phlip at 99main.com>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> >
> >
> > > Craig Jones wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Maybe one day I'll make it to New York...
> > Maybe I might look Adamantius
> > > > up when I'm there...
> > > >
> > > > Mind you, I know SCA people here who are
> > more accident prone and in
> > > > casualty more than I, they just don't admit
> > it...
> > >
> >
> > Drakey, I'm sure many of us are injured
> > frequently. Every time I teach on the
> > forge, I acquire a burn or three- it's
> > something I know is going to happen,
> > just like I know at the end of the day, my face
> > will be black from charcoal
> > dust and smoke, and there'll be an assortment
> > of happy people wandering
> > around showing off what they made. The
> > difference is that we smiths know,
> > going in, that we're doing something dangerous,
> > and do it anyway. You, on the
> > other hand, have a talent for making the safest
> > activities into a potential
> > disaster.
> >
> > Your average smith, rassling with vice grips
> > and a piece of recalcitrant
> > steel, is not going to apply serious amounts of
> > pressure in a direction
> > that's likely to cause him to be hit in tender
> > areas- or if they do,
> > certainly not twice in 10 minutes, any more
> > than the typical serious cook is
> > going to cut themselves by cutting towards
> > their anatomy.
> >
> > Now, there's one smith I tease a bit, Oso- have
> > you heard this story, Selene?
> > It seems that Oso was doing some forge welding.
> > Now forge welding is one of
> > those things that only works properly if the
> > steel is clean, the flux
> > properly applied, the fire right, you're
> > holding your mouth right, and your
> > Sun isn't in opposition to Mars. Oso was
> > happliy welding, and one of his
> > students said, "Hey, Master Oso." And Oso said,
> > don't interupt- it's
> > welding." The student said, "But Master Oso..."
> > "I'm welding- don't bother
> > me". "But Master Oso, you're on fire". "So put
> > it out- I'm busy".
> >
> > Now, this is the reason why I blame the
> > California fires on Oso- I figure he
> > was trying to forge weld the San Andreas fault
> > together...
> >
> > I just had a horrible thought... Those Aussie
> > fires a while back... Drakey,
> > were you playing on the barbie?
> >
> > But, Drakey, the reason you're such a
> > wonderment, is that you can take the
> > most innocuous activity and turn it into a
> > disaster. Who else can coldcock
> > themselves opening a refrigerator door? Or stab
> > themselves in the nose, doing
> > a simple sewing job?
> >
> > Drakey, you need a keeper...
> >
> > Saint Phlip,
> > CoD
> >
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