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. Few moments as these are ever caught - If camera tries, the film shows nought! Yet when fate's hand to you was dealt You captured it in dry stitched felt! <*))))))>< Grant Continue

Paper clay forced between cracks in old roof tiles used to line bottom of a smithy's forge. By next week, I'll know how paper clay holds up to temperatures of 1400 + degrees C as I charcoal fire the new HoBB Forge for the first time. Building a forge was the idea of a recent Wwoofer (www.wwoof.org) who visited the HoBB. He's left now to help in the building an oak frame house in the Wirral (Nr. Liverpool UK) but the 'Alder Forge' remains ... soon ready to 'forge' new works in metal if the whole… Continue