Can you follow this - A Meeting of Minds

mawra · Jul 20 2014, 04:23 PM

I am trying to explain how someone is making bellows for a blacksmith. Does it make since? Would I be better off just saying he made bellows?

He found some branches he could us as the frame. He used strips of leather to hold the frame together and spread leather over the two frames. Next he tie the leather to the frame and the leather he was using as the sides. He used more wood to make handles, which he tied at the end of the two frames. Next he cut some heavy canvas for the sides of his bellows and tied them in place. When he was through he had two flat leather pieces, connected by canvas sides, with a handle that would open and close. The last thing he added was a small cone, made out of leather and tied to the main pieces. When the handles were opened and close air would be forced though the cone. The air would make the fire hotter where and when he needed it to be

P'ter · Jul 23 2014, 02:39 PM

He needs to seal the various joins and seams; possibly with glue made by boiling horse/cow hooves"?

mawra · Jul 24 2014, 12:31 AM

Okay, thanks.

Jul 20 2014, 04:23 PM	#1
mawra Dolphin Friend Craftmaster Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: CONCORD VA Gender: F Fan of: PERN Now Reading: Dolphins of Pern and Queens ow	Can you follow this I am trying to explain how someone is making bellows for a blacksmith. Does it make since? Would I be better off just saying he made bellows? He found some branches he could us as the frame. He used strips of leather to hold the frame together and spread leather over the two frames. Next he tie the leather to the frame and the leather he was using as the sides. He used more wood to make handles, which he tied at the end of the two frames. Next he cut some heavy canvas for the sides of his bellows and tied them in place. When he was through he had two flat leather pieces, connected by canvas sides, with a handle that would open and close. The last thing he added was a small cone, made out of leather and tied to the main pieces. When the handles were opened and close air would be forced though the cone. The air would make the fire hotter where and when he needed it to be __________________ November is write a 50,000 (or more) word novel, so go write MEDDLE NOT IN THE AFFAIRS OF DRAGONS, FOR YOU ARE CRUNCHY AND GOOD WITH CHOCOLATE SO MANY BOOKS SO LITTLE TIME DRIVING SMART KEEPS YOU ALIVE

Jul 23 2014, 02:39 PM	#2
P'ter Crafter Craftmaster Join Date: May 2006 Location: Wolverhampton Gender: M Fan of: Favorite? Now Reading: avidly	Re: Can you follow this He needs to seal the various joins and seams; possibly with glue made by boiling horse/cow hooves"? __________________ "Truth is stranger than fiction: fiction has to make sense." Leo Rosten. "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." C. S. Lewis "I find television very educational. Whenever somebody switches it on I go in the other room and read a book." (attributed to Groucho Marx) The Pedants are revolting! (against bad grammar)

Jul 24 2014, 12:31 AM	#3
mawra Dolphin Friend Craftmaster Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: CONCORD VA Gender: F Fan of: PERN Now Reading: Dolphins of Pern and Queens ow	Re: Can you follow this Okay, thanks. __________________ November is write a 50,000 (or more) word novel, so go write MEDDLE NOT IN THE AFFAIRS OF DRAGONS, FOR YOU ARE CRUNCHY AND GOOD WITH CHOCOLATE SO MANY BOOKS SO LITTLE TIME DRIVING SMART KEEPS YOU ALIVE

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