On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 19:06:39 +0000, Ken Vale wrote:

Some good suggestion to which I can add nothing but you might want
to try posting on alt.crafts.blacksmith as it is a much better newsgroup
to ask these sorts of questions.
Ken

as far as i can see there is only alt.crafts.plastic-canvas and
alt.crafts.professional : .. no blacksmith there :P