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Forged In Fire!
pwillie
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...best thing yet on History channel....as a knife maker my self, I was intrigued with this show.....
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He also did all the first aide for the company (more like doctor) back then. One of my other friends fell and cut his head one day while playing near the shop and Roland made up a needle and stitched up his head while the rest of us watched. He did it without anesthetic and Paul didn't even cry. He was amazing to us kids. Could you imagine a kid coming home with stiches in his head today without parents consent? They'd have him jailed for life. Instead Mrs. Brock thanked Roland for taking care of her son.
He was extremely strong and was the first man that I ever saw that could take a big sledge hammer by the handle and touch his nose with the hammer end without bending his arm while it was outstretched.
During his spare time he taught us how to whittle with our knives. He'd always had some cedar blocks for us to use. He showed us how to sharpen our knives where you could shave with them.
He would also let us shoot some of his guns sometimes where he had targets set up at the back of the shop.
I snuck up behind him one winter day and hit him with a snow ball while he was working and he chased me down and buried me headfirst into a pile of snow that he had shoveled at the front of the shop. [:D]
Sorry about high jacking the thread and rambling on but those were the good old days that I miss dearly. [:(]
The old Appalachian Marble Co. quarry. They quit working in it sometime in the early 60s.