While blowing through a digest at hyperspeed I noticed:

Dick Daigle wrote;
snip happens
> Wish lists: Learn how to build cedar strip canoes.
>                 Take a Windsor chair class with Mike Dunbar.
>                 Learn the fine art of blacksmithing.

Gotta stop laying on the page down key on FMM - no money and
no time to play....  bummer.

Well,  if you can do a stippper canoe without backsliding to the
dark side you are a far better galoot than I.  But then mine needs
2 more coats of resin in and out and the trim work with that 20'
(yes that is right) piece of ash that is sitting next to it.  I
have a stripper - neener neener!

I am planning on building a Windsor or two this winter with Esther
using the tools that I made in blacksmithing class.  I picked up 
200 pounds of coal this weekend (EH drop me a note if you want to
try some).  The coal goes real well with the anvil mounted on the
I beam that is infilled with oak.

This is a very slippery slope that you are heading down.  Are
you sure that you are ready for the road rash?

Dave
If it doesn't rain this weekend I am making staples for the anvil.