MOONY

hi all at peel river artist blacksmiths how things up your way it was good to meet up with john at our hammer in, he mentioned that your group was thinking of the old spring hammer i have here let me know as to if the group was still interested. regards glenn moon

I have been forging iron since the late '80s. I ran my shop full time for most of the '90s . My business always made some money and at the very least was able to support my forging habit. In 1999 I got married and went on the road doing the journeyman thing. After a few years my wife and I returned home planning to settle down( by then kids were involved). I was unable to resume the ironworks business until 04. 2004 was my best year ever, but sadly my bills exceeded my income. I had to shut the forge down a second time and seek outside employment. For the last few years I have been millwrighting , traveling to do repair work on turbines and such. I have been laid off since June and kicking around the idea of getting the old shop up and running again. My problem is one I hadn't expected. All of the old contractors I used to work for are either out of business or near to being out. This is the first time in over 20 years I have come up completely empty! Is the economy THAT bad? I haven't even been able to pick up any tool dressing, which used to be my stand by emergency work. Zip on welding, machine work, and architechtural work is just absolutely gone. Has anybody else run into this or am I doing something wrong?

HI ALL ye thats the question how to make a good living out of blacksmithing, through my hands i would have hit things many million times and if i reiceved a $-50 per hit , many millions i would have turned but ,, the more you turn the more taxes you have to pay ,
so my thoughts are turn enough to live happily and pay a bit of tax ,buy tools that help you work eazyer, they are tax deduction, work hard enough but ,not to the extreme, stop and smell the roses or other things that are from nature often , and ,this is a saying from a great mate of mine he passed away 2years ago [[[those that are flexible shall not get bent out of shape ]]] and its a good idear ,
dont worry about the million dollars , if it come with working honest hard work good luck ,
as long as you get enough to continue to run your business and grow and your health is good thats all that is needed

THOSE THAT ARE FLEXIBLE SHALL NOT GET BENT OUT OF SHAPE , I THINK IS A GREAT SAYING

hi mates ye we all had a great weekend and the 10 station forge worked a treet with many new freinds and old one here, it was a real pleasure to have every one over and to enjoy the pleasure of forging ,and many thanks to my great mate paul westra for the hungi he worked on it most of the day 3 cheers for the chef. as we all eat our over fill
again cheeres to all,, a GET HAMMERED!!!! WE DID
MOONY

Hello to all GET HAMMERED attendies , I AM HAPPY you all had a good time and that we all meet and no one was injured , and the fire table worked a treat , and Jeremy and Ian and Sandy it was a real pleasure to meet , face to face and to all others that came that i had not seen before ,and to old faces from the other meetings , we all hammered till late in the night, I enjoyed the challenge of having a go at cutting the hanging rope with Ians beautiful knife, real SSSHHAARRPP, AND Ian sorry i hit the table with your folder, you are a real master with that cutting again thanks to all and GET HAMMERED , WE DID till next time
HAPPY HAMMERING Glenn Moon

G'Day All , Dale Russell here usin' MOONY'S puter .
As youse can see " i " ain't extinct or MOONY

Blacksmithing without Borders ... i'll ave 1 of those XXXL please

Hope to add a few more name to the OZ Roll Call after this weekend . Glenn & i are heading up to Ironfest . Will ave my IFI t-shirts proudly displayed

Dale Russell / Glenn Moon

Hello evey one its the real moony here and thank you every one for not sending any moneys ,i got scammed , i now have my email back in my hands thanks to the adminastrators at hot mail they could see i had been scammed and ripped my account from they the criminals , and gave it back to me , i was very upset with myself for being scammed , i thought i had control , but it shows these bast--ds are very keen too steal too all thank you .get hammered , i have been glenn moon

hi every one we will need to have a rsvp by 11-10 -08 so we can see the number of people that are attendind please let me no -our ph mobile is australia 61-02 0437401723 and email is springandhammer@hotmail.com thanks

Hi enery body , our adress for get hammered at moonys is 81 burkes hill road braidwood n-s-w australia , burkes hill road is off the cooma captains flat road out of braidwood

Hit it with a bigger hammer! (just kidding)

Try unwinding it from the top and bottom a little bit, and make sure your pipe mandrel has no burs or marks on it, especially near the top. Linish a bevelled edge at the top to be sure.