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Strikers for Flint and steel Needed granpaw 11-23-2006
Posted by Chilla on December 8, 2006, 8:08 pm
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Trevor Jones wrote:
> sanctuarytraders@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Maybe it was the part about "getting off my ass to find someone".
>
>
> Well, I refer to the comment I made in my last post about none too
> gentle language. I make no apology, though.
>
> I have had to get off MY ass and track down stuff a few times along the
> way. Sometimes it took a little lift from someones boot to get me
> moving. <shrug> It happens.
>
> Now if I had started calling you names or otherwise casting aspersions
> with regards to your person or parentage, I could see it being called a
> flame situation. On rereading the post I made, I feel it stands well
> enough on its content, in it's context.
>
> You are free to be offended, but that really was not my intent!


I do this on occasion myself, write something about myself that's been
taken as an offensive attack.

I've used "I have to get off my arse" (Note arse, not ass, we're more
vulgar in Oz). There was definitely no intention that I was referring
to anyone but myself.

Sometimes it's a typo.

In a club I belong to we had a "Pubic Officer" for a while until someone
pointed out the missing "L", from then on we had a "Public Officer".

I had a person wanting to tear me a new one with this comment "I mean to
offend", which should have read "I didn't mean to offend".

Spell checker didn't pick up either of these :-(


Regards Charles
P.S. I consider myself a noob also ;-)


Posted by on December 8, 2006, 11:29 pm
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So, Trevor, you would then suggest I walk or drive and knock on doors?
Maybe I missed the meaning here. I thought this would have been a good
opportunity to have a starting point, and while most took it that way,
obviously some did not.


Chilla wrote:
> Trevor Jones wrote:
> > sanctuarytraders@gmail.com wrote:
> >
> >> Maybe it was the part about "getting off my ass to find someone".
> >
> >
> > Well, I refer to the comment I made in my last post about none too
> > gentle language. I make no apology, though.
> >
> > I have had to get off MY ass and track down stuff a few times along the
> > way. Sometimes it took a little lift from someones boot to get me
> > moving. <shrug> It happens.
> >
> > Now if I had started calling you names or otherwise casting aspersions
> > with regards to your person or parentage, I could see it being called a
> > flame situation. On rereading the post I made, I feel it stands well
> > enough on its content, in it's context.
> >
> > You are free to be offended, but that really was not my intent!
>
>
> I do this on occasion myself, write something about myself that's been
> taken as an offensive attack.
>
> I've used "I have to get off my arse" (Note arse, not ass, we're more
> vulgar in Oz). There was definitely no intention that I was referring
> to anyone but myself.
>
> Sometimes it's a typo.
>
> In a club I belong to we had a "Pubic Officer" for a while until someone
> pointed out the missing "L", from then on we had a "Public Officer".
>
> I had a person wanting to tear me a new one with this comment "I mean to
> offend", which should have read "I didn't mean to offend".
>
> Spell checker didn't pick up either of these :-(
>
>
> Regards Charles
> P.S. I consider myself a noob also ;-)


Posted by Trevor Jones on December 9, 2006, 4:47 pm
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sanctuarytraders@gmail.com wrote:
> So, Trevor, you would then suggest I walk or drive and knock on doors?

Yes, if you know of smiths or shops selling wrought black iron good
that are not obviously cheap imported goods.

Or the electric equivalent, which is calling the blacksmiths or the
retail shops you know of, and asking them for contacts. You want to deal
local, or with someone in another country? You have to provide at least
SOME information.


> Maybe I missed the meaning here. I thought this would have been a good
> opportunity to have a starting point, and while most took it that way,
> obviously some did not.

Offhand I know of three or four smiths that run a more or less
commercial shop, and they know many more. For the most part, though, my
contacts are only suitable information for my area, and would do you no
good, esp. as you did not provide info that would allow decisions to be
made, pro or con, to that effect. Little details like the country you
are in, and where you wish to buy from are a good start, the price you
would wish to begin negotiating around would be a better one.

Are you in the US? UK? Aus.? Got a website? YOU came asking for people
to contact you, without giving any information about yourself that may
have allowed a reader to be able to even decide if there is worthwhile
reason to follow up on your post. Gmail accounts are NEVER used by
spammers, after all.

Back to the thing about being a regular around here. If you were
known, and folks knew where you were, like as not suggestions of who
would be worth calling could be forthcoming. The last figure I saw in
print said that there were some 20 thousand hobby smiths in North
America. From the number of posts here on a good week, they are
obviously not all watching this particular newsgroup. As I know, or know
of, at least a half dozen guys making at least part of their daily bread
smithing, I would estimate that there are a fair few scattered around
the world that may also be possible suppliers to your enterprise.

As far as I am concerned, YOU want information, so YOU have to put out
the effort. That's what I meant exactly when I said you would have to
get off your ass.

At the end of it, I don't really care if you choose to find your
sources the way you went about it. I was commenting on the rant that was
posted in response to the lack of enthusiasm apparent in the followup to
your original post.
I am actually a little surprised to see that you have actually
followed up on this.

Cheers
Trevor Jones


Posted by on December 9, 2006, 11:30 pm
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> sanctuarytraders@gmail.com wrote:
> > So, Trevor, you would then suggest I walk or drive and knock on
> > doors?
> > Maybe I missed the meaning here. I thought this would have been
> > a good opportunity to have a starting point, and while most took
> > it that way, obviously some did not.

Trevor you are being way too nice to this butt-muncher. :/

He doesn't sign his posts (he's hiding his name) he wants you to
be "sweet" to him and tell him what he wants to know all served on
a silver platter (handmade by a whitesmith and for-sure not plated;)
all for free.

Maybe I'm mistaken here tho? :/

...uh... Trevor, are you -really truely- buttmuncher's grandma? :)

If so... sorry to butt in. ;) Carry on.

Alvin in AZ

Posted by Chilla on December 10, 2006, 6:29 am
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I hear the sound of a large gong in the distance, but I think it's
getting closer ;-)


Regards Charles

alvinj@XX.com wrote:
> Trevor you are being way too nice to this butt-muncher. :/
>
> He doesn't sign his posts (he's hiding his name) he wants you to
> be "sweet" to him and tell him what he wants to know all served on
> a silver platter (handmade by a whitesmith and for-sure not plated;)
> all for free.
>
> Maybe I'm mistaken here tho? :/
>
> ...uh... Trevor, are you -really truely- buttmuncher's grandma? :)
>
> If so... sorry to butt in. ;) Carry on.
>
> Alvin in AZ


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