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Six jobs you thought were extinct (CNN) [message #354226] Wed, 11 October 2017 17:57 Go to next message
hancock4 is currently offline  hancock4
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CNN article on old style jobs still in business. Includes typewriter.

http://www.cnn.com/travel/article/handmade-bill-weir-the-won der-list/index.html
Re: Six jobs you thought were extinct (CNN) [message #354256 is a reply to message #354226] Thu, 12 October 2017 03:06 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Mike Spencer is currently offline  Mike Spencer
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hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com writes:

> CNN article on old style jobs still in business. Includes typewriter.
>
> http://www.cnn.com/travel/article/handmade-bill-weir-the-won der-list/index.html

A woman who hand-forges custom knife blades is as strange and rare and
obsolete as a typewriter repairman? The journalist needs to get out
more.

The custom knifemaking guild (not fraternity 'cause it's not
male-only) is quite large and growing, albeit slowly as the criteria
for admission demand that the applicant's work produce excellent, not
just pretty, blades. Yes, many of those makers cut and grind the
blades from flat stock but many forge them, too. I have a lovely
pattern-welded (aka Damascus) folder made by a friend who just passed
the guild tests this summer.


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Re: Six jobs you thought were extinct (CNN) [message #354269 is a reply to message #354256] Thu, 12 October 2017 08:40 Go to previous message
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Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> writes:
>
> hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com writes:
>
>> CNN article on old style jobs still in business. Includes typewriter.
>>
>> http://www.cnn.com/travel/article/handmade-bill-weir-the-won der-list/index.html
>
> A woman who hand-forges custom knife blades is as strange and rare and
> obsolete as a typewriter repairman? The journalist needs to get out
> more.
>
> The custom knifemaking guild (not fraternity 'cause it's not
> male-only) is quite large and growing

To the extent that knifemaking has its own reality TV program.
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