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Wantt By JEFF LAGRONE Gamecock Staff Writer "T npvpr nhfkPfl hnf nnf? hnrsp in my life and it amazed me that the animal could walk when I got through with him," said J.E. Moss, a metallurgist employed by DuPont. Moss demonstrated his art at a blacksmithing workshop held Tuesday night at Sloan College to introduce students to the work of the blacksmith and to encourage fhpm In pnrnll in a hlnrksmithini* I BUSH RIMER r wi j EH1 sifli m Qqwieco III I Custom Loath* Work Availab 1 Edited by Br fairytales is i Dore, Gree ? 1 Froi I Ou 1 use * Swrnwiwuiwuiwi o shoe g Blacksmith to course which will be offered for a credit spring aemester. 01 Mnss will rptirp from his inh with hi DuPont in order to teach the blacksmithing course at USC. ai b WHILE THE 35 persons whi si attended the workshop watched a film on blacksmithing produced by b the American Craftsman Council, " Moss built a fire outside for his ir demonstration. When the film was a over students watched Moss forge a a "morning glory" from cold steel, d A popular misconception is that o MOW V tl rHER 1 ICK I SA ck Visors itock ,r [DKhEftl " i maL i iristmas isforChildr From Tim< ; a gift for all seasor /an Holme, this collectior exquisitely illustrated by R nway and Dulae among 7i Viking Press at $ 1 r aift to vou at S ~ 7 - v Limited Number The Book Cora< I Campus Books BWwWilWWwWtWWH'P i horse teach course blacksmith exists now or existed ice piuiiciiuy iu iurge snu?:b iur orses. The products of the blacksmith re as many and as varied as the tacksmith can himself envision, aid Moss. "There's no end to what a lacksmith can do," said Moss. It's up to a person's own nagination. Down through the ges it was a blacksmith who made 11 these beautiful gates, cathedral nnrc onrl fnnnnr PKorloc^nn ic full V/Vl O UIIU 1VIIVVO, V/IIUI I V.O IU11 IO 1UII f them." "DURING THE days of our jrefathers every community had s blacksmith," said Moss. "He /as the one who made the tools for lie carpenter and the stone mason, if it hadn't been for the blacksmith I Send TONGUE STCCTPBR A . ? kikM 1 WV ?W V* V BUMPER STICKERS '1 < BUTTONS *1.! HIGH QUALITY A* T CUIDTC 17 I ?v i -gnm i u j|fcSWEAT SHIRTS MO.l Pius 50c for pottage and hand'in *f< Stale Color and Size. A 3 i IS. \ : ~i nf trnrlitinnnl a :ackham, | others. | 2 10.00 i 8.00 I i ; s 5 I n i t .tore I ? f lorn tor credits in there wouldn't have been any tools." Moss said the Industrial Rni/nlntinn rhnnOpH (hp rnlc nf tho blacksmith and almost made blacksmithing a lost art. "Blacksmithing hit its peak about 10))," he said. "About 1930 it started downhill. A blacksmith on an anvil could make about three axes a day. With the advent of steam and great big drop hammers and so forth and so on a man could mane: <> cuupic ui nuiiureu a uay. "You come along with a machine that can spit out nails like shucking corn and there's not much point in a man sitting there hammering them out on an anvil." BUT MOSS hastened to add that blacksmithing has recently en The Gamecock POWER JANSSEN 1977 X) 50 P.O. BOX 96 $ PLATTEVILLE, CO o 80651 B r ^Tti J^fr 4. sprinq W joyed a renaissance. "In the last five or eight years maybe this bicentennial had something to do with this-people have been trying to go back to the basics," he said. "There are communes around the country now, especially in the West, where they have blacksmith schools." "There's something about hot metal, a fire, smoke and a hammer that helps you get rid of your frustrations," Moss said. THE BLACKSMITHING course, designated ARTS-581S, will be offered Tuesday and Thursday evenings between 7 and 9:45 p.m. Professor Howard Woody of the USC Art Department said there may be spaces for no more than 10 or 12 students. Woody advised I-.* -A 1 1- ^ - 1 unci eau-u biuuerus 10 apply early. ; home r I Read the Garnet and Black INTER WHITE... | >R THOSE HOLIDAY g| ENINGS WHEN YOU jg ANT TO BE ELEGANT (j IT/^/^UCAnTADIC tSSI Jl LUIVir\JI\lnDLL. pg| The 1 cHapps^ 1 Dashoy 1 FIVE POINTS I 1AS GIFT CERTIFICATES I I