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1mo ago
inPut down the induction heater, picked up a coal forge
Do you really think switching from propane to coal changes the actual metal in your hands that much? I've seen plenty of guys get great results with either fuel, and a lot of it comes down to what they learned on first. The Kentucky guy's blog post sounds like it's heavy on feeling and light on any real proof that coal makes better steel. Heat is heat, and if you can read the color and the scale, you can feel the metal just fine with gas. All that talk about "heat from all sides" is true, but a good forge fire does the same thing if you set it up right. I'm not saying coal is bad, but I'd bet ten bucks that smith would go back to propane if his draft went wonky on a cold morning.
1mo ago
inHad to pick between Facebook ads and a local newspaper ad for our grand opening
Tbh my buddy runs a small landscaping crew and he said the same thing about their local paper. He still pays for it just to keep the high school scores in the paper, but he knows nobody under 50 even opens it.
1mo ago
inMy old field notes contradict every recent article on Teotihuacan's tunnels
We had the same issue with the 1987 Oaxaca valley survey data. Someone kept citing the old published map but the actual field notes showed a completely different set of terraces on the eastern slope. I ended up scanning all my original notebooks and posting the raw sketches to a shared drive. Told people to ignore the article and look at the GPS tracks I logged. That shut down about half the arguments. The other half just didn't care about the ground truth, but at least the new grad students had something real to work from.