Wishwon

yes I am sorry to hear as well... in some day you both with smash metal on the big anvil in the sky.

yes they are very nice.

hahah ya I am apparently from old German royalty, like that does anything for me now. Off topic I know... don't know why I posted that :?

hmmm I didn't even swear... Don't know why it xed me out.... ahh well 8)

Rich seems to be the xxxxxxx man Edit: words edited due to intent of usage

yes they do Do you live in Calgary?

they even had a Budwizer team haha

ya I guess I should have made it more clear, that was the compitition that day. Plus, it is a cowboy event, the Calgary Stampede, so having horse shoeing is natural. BTW they did have a Canadian Ferriers Team there. There is also a shop there that sells products made a two local smithin shops around Calgary, which I got lots of ideas for my first projects, when I get my equipment together. Cool stuff to look at.

well I went to the blacksmithing world championships at the stampede and I will be going again tonight. Pretty cool to watch. They were hammering out 4 horse shoes and putting them on the horse. They had to do this in 2 hours. I never seen people hammer so fast and hard. There were teams from all over the world. We will see what tonight's challenge is and the overall champ will be named.

any pics?

do u have to go there in order to bid or will there be some online stuff goin on?

niceness

yes that helps. I am not sure it would be the same price for coal in Albera, but it should be cheaper. Coal is everywhere here. I will look into princess for the "accesory" tools for sure. They seem to have a bit of everything in that place.

ahhh I see... ya that is a better idea, then I have more space to bend the metal. Thank you.

wouldn't the eventually bend after a bit?