Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
There was a time when I insisted I was going to grow up and would buy no more department-store furniture that comes in a box. I would only buy “real” furniture made by craftsmen from a company like Broyhill or Thomasville. So much for that....
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