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

[Jennifer / Guenievre]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sca-cooks-bounces+generys=blazemail.com at ansteorra.org [mailto:sca-
> cooks-bounces+generys=blazemail.com at ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of Bill
> Fisher
> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 8:50 PM
> To: Cooks within the SCA
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Drakey's Disasters- was Evil Science Projects etc
> 
> 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)

How much smithing do you want to do, and how are your living arrangements?
One of my best friends is a black smith, who lives in an apartment with a
patio (ground level) and has a propane and a coal forge on said patio... of
course, we live in a rather understanding apartment complext, but still...

Guenievre