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On 2015-06-13 16:50:27 +0000, PeterN said:
On 6/13/2015 3:00 AM, Tony Cooper wrote: On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 13:29:52 -0400, PeterN wrote: Le Snip Ture, but if you go a bit South to West Palm, you will find that black****ming is a good business. (That's horse country.) Farriers, not blacksmiths, shoe horses. The polo set in WPB is not going to use anything but a specialist. Of course. But blacksmiths make the shoes. I am not certain whether its mechanized shoe making, or custom. IIRC there is also a blacksmith shop in that area that makes custom iron gateways, & furniture. These days the blacksmith of old is usually a wrought iron specialist and has nothing to do with the production of horse shoes. Farriers are usually certified, and not every wrought iron blacksmith can be considered a farrier. http://americanfarriers.org/certification/ They will in most cases start with mass produced shoes of various sizes and shapes which the farrier himself will custom forge to fit the individual horse. If they are using iron or steel shoes that would be hot forging. If they are using aluminum shoes (which are quite common these days they will cold forge to shape. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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| Lovely set. You've got some hi lights in #2 and shadows in #3 that you | might wanna try to retrieve but that don't diminish the value of this | beautiful documentary set of images. | | I was thinking that, too. I especially like #1, for the atmospheric detail, as well as the more balanced lighting. Though I wonder if maybe there wasn't enough light. Close-up view looks pixelated. For instance, with the rack of hammers. Is that just out of focus, or was there not enough light? Side note: I don't see the images on the page. I'm not sure why. But if I change dl=0 to dl=1 then I get a download dialogue when the page opens and I can download the image. |
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On 6/13/2015 4:18 PM, Tony Cooper wrote:
On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 13:29:52 -0400, PeterN wrote: On 6/10/2015 9:07 PM, Tony Cooper wrote: On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 19:27:12 -0500, philo wrote: On 06/10/2015 05:38 PM, Tony Cooper wrote: On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 17:04:14 -0500, philo wrote: On 06/10/2015 04:38 PM, PeterN wrote: On 6/10/2015 12:33 PM, philo wrote: Visited my friend's forger yesterday https://www.dropbox.com/s/est2gclugi...napp1.JPG?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/xfogcythz0...napp2.JPG?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/tluq943f3n...napp3.JPG?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/3ypouq4a1j...napp4.JPG?dl=0 Neat group of images. I was beginning to think that photography wasn't allowed in this group. Thanks for the comment. After visiting the blacksmith yesterday, I knew I had a winner. My wife did her own photo-shoot as she is going to do a painting from the images. Whenever she does a photo-shoot for a paining, I come along and do my own. One day, I might even do a "behind the scenes" show based on my tagging along. I don't think there's a blacksmith in this area. Farriers, yes, and I've photographed several. Checking, I see the nearest blacksmith to Orlando is up in Ocala. Much of the work done by a blacksmith would be done in a welding shop here. http://www.mapquest.com/maps?cat=Blacksmiths&state=FL My friend does quite a bit of wrought iron work and sometimes gets called to help out with building restorations. I should ask him if he ever does any "traditional" blacksmith work such as horseshoes...I bet not If you've ever been to Puerto Rico or Cuba, as I have (both), every window and almost every door on almost every house has a wrought iron covering. Like burglar bars, but done decoratively. The custom has spread to Florida, and ironwork is common on houses in the Hispanic areas. Ironwork, pastel-colored houses, and grottos in the yard. Not as many here as in South Florida or Tampa, but - still - a lot. It's welders, not blacksmiths, that create this ironwork here but I guess they use a forge to bend the ironwork. Ture, but if you go a bit South to West Palm, you will find that black****ming is a good business. (That's horse country.) One day I'll have to do a photo series on these neighborhoods. I'll probably be able to include some tricked out cars, too. I'm in the middle of such a series in Sanannah. In the early days that city imposed a tax on doors, so the used wide elaborate windows on the upper floors for entrance to balconies. I'm going to take a wild leap and assume you meant to type "Savannah". It is a myth that there was once a "door tax" in the US. It goes back to the myth that Thomas Jefferson invented the triple sash window to avoid the "door tax", and that he invented the triple sash window when he was Ambassador to France. He did incorporate triple sash windows that served as both windows and doors in his Monticello residence, but this style of window was used in buildings constructed in the 1600s; about 100 years before Jefferson started construction of Monticello. If you think there is any credence to the idea that there was a "door tax" at any time in Savannah or in any city or state, do provide a cite. I could not ifnd a definitive cite, either way. Though I did not check the anti-bellum Savannah tax ode. There are lots of articles supporting the concept, but I don't consider them definitive. There was a "window tax" in England and Wales in the late 1600s. Scotland added a window tax in 1748. France had a window tax between 1798 to 1926. These taxes were imposed as a means of generating revenue based on the size of a house. A larger house would have more windows. Also, tax collectors could visually identify the subject of the tax. No need to measure square footage or anything like that. In the US South, window taxes would have been more objectionable because windows were required to let in air in the warmer climate. Large windows that opened up to balconies and the outside, and allowed entrance and egress, just added convenience because they served double-duty. -- PeterN |
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