My 1.4561 Minutes of Fame

Ken Scharabok · #1 05/27/06, 08:34 AM

http://www.thefabricator.com/ArtScul...le.cfm?ID=1355

tallpines · #2 05/27/06, 08:55 AM

Cool!

DrippingSprings · #3 05/27/06, 09:04 AM

congrats!! I think it was more like 3.1206 seconds though

**fordson major** · #4 05/27/06, 11:21 AM

yer also a hit with farm show readers!

whats that boy gona beat inta sumthin' next!?

think your working on more minutes of fame than that ken! and the good kind, not the enron/maroon type.

mightybooboo · #5 05/27/06, 11:38 AM

Nice article Ken.

BooBoo

marvella · #6 05/27/06, 03:41 PM

wow! ken, that is a really nice article!!

yur famous!!

**Ross** · #7 05/27/06, 05:28 PM

Excellent Ken, very nice read and well deserved praise. Wish we lived closer.

scott · #8 05/27/06, 10:19 PM

very nice. Congrats .... it's good to get a bit of recognition once in a while.

quite an informative piece, btw

Up North · #9 05/27/06, 11:25 PM

Brilliant. Have to respect someone that comes up with ideas - and then actually DOES THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ken Scharabok · #10 05/28/06, 07:38 AM

I believe it was Linus Pauling (two time Nobel Prize Winner) who said 'The way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas and then throw out the bad ones.' My addition to that is sometimes a bad idea in one situation is a good idea in another.

Selling blacksmithing-related items on eBay is something which is working for me at the moment. Does it have legs? Really can't say. Right now I don't have any competition to speak of. If a couple of sellers come on doing virtually the same thing I'm doing a price war would likely drive most of us out.

I somewhat have built-in advantages of my overhead is low, my equipment has largely paid for itself (and would still have a resale value) and it is supplemental income to me. Would be hard to drive me out of the market.

As mentioned in the article I have been making and/or selling blacksmithing-related items for a long time (say 20 years). However, my market was EXTREMELY limited until eBay came along.

papaw · #11 05/28/06, 01:04 PM

I enjoyed it very much. Nice pictures too .....

Up North · #12 05/28/06, 11:35 PM

Ken , my late father was a Chemistry professor turned farmer and he spoke of your Linus Pauling often, LOL.
So many of us have good ideas - so few IMPLEMENT them!!

Gideon · #13 05/29/06, 05:20 PM

Good stuff Ken, will pass on the info to a couple of amatuer blacksmiths nearby. As a kid we rigged a field expediant bellows to repair a tractor part. Got it cherry red and beat it back into position then hammered it a bit as it cooled. Worked for years.