[divermike]

I had done some smithing in high school, but then 25 years of life got in the way. So one day I'm reading a book called The skystone, about a roman times smith trying to figure out how to get a meteorite hot enough to work it, because his granddad had made a dagger of one, and it hit me, this is what I want to do! The horseclans novels may have contributed, Wolf & Iron also was one I read during that time, all these got my juices flowing. Now 3 years later, after wasting a year on my own, I'm getting to know which end of the hammer works best on the hot yellow stuff.