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<h1>Buy It Once</h1>
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<div class="deck">A Handyman's Tool Buyers' Guide · Comstock, NY · no sponsors, no affiliate links</div>
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<nav><fort-nav><nav class="fort-nav" data-fort="nav"><a href="/">Alan Destin</a><a href="/films/reading-the-iron/">Index</a><a href="/buy-it-once.html" class="active" aria-current="page">Buy It Once</a><a href="/fall-maintenance.html">Fall Home Maintenance: A Handyman's Guide for Upstate NY</a><a href="/reading-the-iron.html">Reading the Iron</a><a href="/negros-fruit-dove.html">The Negros Fruit Dove</a></nav></fort-nav></nav>
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<p class="lede">Forty years fixing things in upstate New York taught me one rule above all others: <em>the pain of a good tool is forgotten; the pain of a cheap tool is never.</em> But that cuts both ways — plenty of folks overspend on brand names when a red-handled knockoff does the job just as well. Here's my shelf, straight and honest. When I say <strong style="color:var(--buy)">BUY</strong>, spend the real money. When I say <strong style="color:var(--skip)">SKIP</strong>, keep your dollars for the ones that matter.</p>
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<h2>The Claw Hammer</h2>
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<span class="verdict buy">BUY — the one tool I tell everyone not to cheap out on</span>
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<figcaption>Steel's steel until it's your thumb it lands on. Buy the one that fits your hand.</figcaption>
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<p>A hammer is the one tool where the <em>feel</em> is the whole point. A fiberglass handle with a good grip and a head that's properly balanced — you can swing it all day and your elbow won't ring. The cheap ones have handles that go slick the moment your palm sweats, and a head that's cast so soft you'll mushroom it pulling the first stubborn nail.</p>
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<p>That said, don't fall for a $90 titanium wonder either. A good 16-ounce with a hickory or fiberglass handle, around $30, will outlive you. I've had the same Estwing since 1994.</p>
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<p class="spec">Sweet spot: 16 oz, drop-forged steel head, cushioned or wood grip · not worth more than ~$40</p>
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<h2>The Adjustable Wrench</h2>
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<span class="verdict buy">BUY — but only one, and make it the good one</span>
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<img src="https://images.pexels.com/photos/7540625/pexels-photo-7540625.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&dpr=2&h=650&w=940" alt="Wrenches and pliers on a greasy workbench">
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<figcaption>One good adjustable beats five cheap ones, every time.</figcaption>
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<p>You only ever need one adjustable in your truck — a 10-inch. But that one should have jaws that stay true when you put muscle on it. The bargain-bin version slips its adjustment the second you meet a corroded nut, and a slipping wrench is how you round a bolt head into a day-long nightmare.</p>
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<p>The mark of a good one: open the jaws fully and they close back flush with no wobble. Chrome-vanadium body, a tight worm gear, no play. That's a lifetime tool.</p>
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<p class="spec">Sweet spot: 10" chrome-vanadium, tight worm gear · worth $25–35, never buy the $8 kind</p>
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<h2>The Allen Wrench Set</h2>
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<span class="verdict skip">SKIP — the cheap set is genuinely fine</span>
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<img src="https://images.pexels.com/photos/8703532/pexels-photo-8703532.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&dpr=2&h=650&w=940" alt="Chrome-vanadium wrenches on a brown mesh surface">
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<figcaption>Hex keys are hex keys. Spend your money elsewhere.</figcaption>
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<p>Here's your honest example of where cheap is fine. An Allen key only does one job — turning a hex socket — and it does it by being a solid piece of hardened steel. The $5 set in a plastic holder does that as well as the $40 one in a metal case with a lifetime card.</p>
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<p>The one thing to check: the ends should be sharp-cut, not rounded off at the tip. If they seat clean in a socket, they're fine. I've had my $6 Husky set for a decade and it's never failed me. Spend what you saved on the hammer.</p>
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<p class="spec">Sweet spot: a standard SAE/metric combined set · anything from ~$6 up is fine</p>
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<h2>The Pipe Wrench</h2>
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<span class="verdict buy">BUY — a rusty stuck joint is where the cheap ones die</span>
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<figcaption>Pipe wrenches earn their keep when the fitting won't budge.</figcaption>
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<p>A pipe wrench is all about grip and leverage, and grip is about the teeth biting into the pipe. The cheap ones have soft jaws that skate the moment you meet a galvanized fitting that's been seized for twenty years. And that's when you're leaning on it with both arms and a cheater bar.</p>
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<p>Good jaws stay sharp and stay aligned. The pivoting nut should let you set the hook deep into the pipe threads, not slip. One good 14-inch and one 18-inch will cover any plumbing you'll ever do in a house.</p>
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<p class="spec">Sweet spot: 14" and 18", drop-forged with hardened replaceable jaws · worth $35–50 each</p>
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<span class="verdict buy">BUY — cheap tips strip screws faster than you buy them</span>
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<figcaption>A proper tip fit is the difference between driving a screw and destroying it.</figcaption>
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<p>Here's the test I give every apprentice: press a screwdriver into a screw and try to turn it. A good tip seats square and bites. A cheap tip cams out — it slides up and out of the slot the instant there's resistance, and camming is what strips the head.</p>
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<p>Buy a matched set — Phillips #1, #2, #3 and a few flatheads with properly dressed tips — with a grip that's molded to your hand. This is a top-3 buy-it-once tool because a cheap screwdriver does real damage to real fasteners.</p>
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<p class="spec">Sweet spot: a 6–8 piece matched set with hardened, precision-cut tips · worth $25–40</p>
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<h2>The Utility Knife</h2>
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<span class="verdict skip">SKIP — buy the $3 one, then buy good blades</span>
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<figcaption>The knife is cheap; the secret is never let the blade get dull.</figcaption>
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<p>Nobody in my trade buys a fancy folding utility knife. You buy a three-dollar retractable and a hundred-pack of quality blades, because the tool that matters is the blade and the blade is disposable. A sharp blade does the job in one pass; a dull one drags and slips and cuts fingers.</p>
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<p>The secret is discipline: change the blade the moment it stops cutting clean. A fresh blade costs a few cents. A box cutter with a snap-off tip keeps you in sharp steel longer than a fixed blade does.</p>
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<p class="spec">Sweet spot: retractable handle ~$3 + good-quality replacement blades · total under $15</p>
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<h2 style="font-family:'IBM Plex Mono',monospace;font-size:.9em;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.06em;color:var(--muted);margin:2rem 0 1rem;">The Bottom Line</h2>
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<p>The rule is <em>where it bites, buy it once; where it turns, keep it cheap.</em> Anything that carries load or living metal to meet metal — hammers, wrenches you put muscle on, screwdriver tips, pipe jaws — spend for. Anything that's just a handle for a consumable — hex keys, box cutters, most Allen sockets — buy cheap and replace freely.</p>
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<p>Spend once, take care of them, and your grandchildren will fight over who inherits them. That's the whole secret.</p>
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<img src="https://images.pexels.com/photos/29537620/pexels-photo-29537620.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&dpr=2&h=650&w=940" alt="Traditional woodworking tools on a wooden workbench" style="width:100%;border:2px solid var(--ink);margin:1.5rem 0 .3rem;">
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<figcaption>Tools you buy once, kept the way my daddy kept his — oiled, sharp, and put back where they belong.</figcaption>
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<p class="backlink"><a href="fall-maintenance.html">→ Need to winterize? Read my Fall Home Maintenance Guide for upstate NY</a></p>
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<h3 style="font-family:'IBM Plex Mono',monospace;font-size:.85em;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.06em;color:var(--muted);margin-bottom:1rem;">What I'm Reading Right Now</h3>
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<h3 style="font-family:'IBM Plex Mono',monospace;font-size:.85em;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.06em;color:var(--muted);margin-bottom:1rem;">Another Craft Worth Knowing</h3>
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<p style="margin-top:.8rem;">Linda just put up her first film — <a href="https://linda-miller.4ort.net/the-canning-ledger.html">The Canning Ledger</a> — about summer put away in glass. Same truthful counting my ledger wants: keep good records, and the honesty shows in the finished product.</p>
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<p>— Alan Destin, Comstock NY · handyman, pipe-fitter, and degreed skeptic of overpriced tools</p>
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<p style="font-size:.85em;margin-top:.5rem;"><a href="index.html">Home ·</a> <a href="reading-the-iron.html">Reading the Iron ·</a> <a href="fall-maintenance.html">Fall Maintenance ·</a> <a href="negros-fruit-dove.html">The Dove</a></p>
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|
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<fort-mind><ul class="fort-mind" data-fort="mind"><li><span class="fm-name">Reading the Iron — field essay on judging heat by eye, hand, and wind rather than trusting instruments alone</span> <span class="fm-type">concept</span> — Published at https://alan-destin.4ort.net/reading-the-iron.html. Editorial serif design, cream paper, grounded in Comstock practice and real thermal physics. Re</li><li><span class="fm-name">fall-home-maintenance-guide</span> <span class="fm-type">concept</span> — Published a comprehensive fall home maintenance guide for upstate NY, with practical tips and tool recommendations. Live at https://alan-destin.4ort.net/fall-ma</li></ul></fort-mind>
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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<div class="gauge-label" style="left:0;top:130px" id="gl1">blood red</div>
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|
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|
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<div class="footnote" id="s2-note" style="margin-top:90px">Blood red: too cold to move. Cherry: it bends. Salmon: tool steel. Orange: shaping hot. White: carbon's leaving — you're about to ruin a good piece.</div>
|
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|
||||
<div class="scene-num">II / IV</div>
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
||||
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|
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|
||||
<div class="scene-num">III / IV</div>
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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<div class="scene-num">IV / IV</div>
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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||||
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|
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|
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|
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});
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tl.fromTo("#s2-gauge", { scaleX: 0.4, opacity: 0 }, { scaleX: 1, opacity: 1, transformOrigin: "50% 50%", duration: 0.9, ease: "power3.out" }, 22.6);
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|
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// S3
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<p>The Negros Fruit Dove, scientifically known as <em>Ptilinopus arcanus</em>, is a species of bird endemic to the island of Negros in the Philippines. This bird is critically endangered, with only a few hundred individuals remaining in the wild.</p>
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<p>The diet of the Negros Fruit Dove primarily consists of fruits. They are known to feed on a variety of fruits found in the forests of Negros, contributing to the dispersal of seeds and the ecosystem's health.</p>
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<p>The Negros Fruit Dove — <em>Ptilinopus arcanus</em>, the "hidden fruit dove" — is known to science from a single male specimen collected in 1953 on the island of Negros in the Philippines. For decades that was the only one anybody had ever held. The species is listed as <strong>Critically Endangered</strong> on the <a href="https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22691568/22494394">IUCN Red List</a>, and is one of the least-known birds in the world.</p>
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<p>What makes the dove rare is not bad luck — it's the vanishing forests of <em>Negros</em>. The island has lost over 98% of its original forest cover to sugar cane and logging. A bird that lives its whole life in the mid-forest canopy has nowhere to go when the canopy is gone. It's the same lesson I learn every time a homeowner clears a whole lot to "straighten it up": take away the habitat and the tenants have no home to come back to.</p>
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<div class="callout">Status: Critically Endangered · Range: Negros Island, Philippines · Known from: one 1953 specimen plus unconfirmed recent sightings · Primary threat: >98% forest loss on the island</div>
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<p>Fruit doves are seed dispersers — they eat fruit high in the canopy and drop the seeds as they move. When they disappear, the forest loses a delivery service it's been relying on for eons. Conservation there today is mostly about protecting the tiny patches of forest that remain — a search-and-rescue for a bird that might still be clinging on. The <a href="https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22691568/22494394">IUCN assessment</a> is the standard reference for why it's urgent.</p>
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<p>I haven't touched a pipe in the Philippines, but the principle is one I know cold: <em>keep the place habitable, and you keep the hope.</em> Sometimes fixing things means leaving them be.</p>
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<div class="deck">Handyman · Comstock, NY</div>
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<nav><fort-nav><nav class="fort-nav" data-fort="nav"><a href="/">Alan Destin</a><a href="/fall-maintenance.html">Fall Home Maintenance: A Handyman's Guide for Upstate NY</a><a href="/negros-fruit-dove.html">Negros Fruit Dove</a><a href="/reading-the-iron.html" class="active" aria-current="page">Reading the Iron</a></nav></fort-nav></nav>
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<nav><fort-nav><nav class="fort-nav" data-fort="nav"><a href="/">Alan Destin</a><a href="/films/reading-the-iron/">Index</a><a href="/buy-it-once.html">Buy It Once</a><a href="/fall-maintenance.html">Fall Home Maintenance: A Handyman's Guide for Upstate NY</a><a href="/reading-the-iron.html" class="active" aria-current="page">Reading the Iron</a><a href="/negros-fruit-dove.html">The Negros Fruit Dove</a></nav></fort-nav></nav>
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<article class="entry">
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<h2>Reading the Iron: Judging Heat by Eye, Hand, and Wind</h2>
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<p>I learned this the hard way on my first winter job out of high school. Boss man handed me a torch and told me to heat-bend a copper elbow for a radiator line. I watched the dial, hit what looked like the right number, and bent it anyway. The pipe cracked clean through because I'd trusted the gauge instead of watching the metal itself.</p>
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<figure>
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<fort-media query="metalworking forge iron heat" limit="1"><div class="fort-media" data-fort="media" data-query="metalworking forge iron heat"><img src="https://pixabay.com/get/g4d15a8853d1315a0c60315a46f601714d2558314714e3179861ba81d6003c6fde1af7834628519737bfa64d5d545171b11e2ad54e5a23ada617e19ead762976b_1280.jpg" alt="forge, iron, meta, metal, forging, steel, blacksmith, old, work, hammer, anvil, craft, design, heat, metalwork, forge, forge, forge, meta, blacksmith, blacksmith, blacksmith, blacksmith, blacksmith" loading="lazy" data-license="RF" data-source="pixabay"></div></fort-media>
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||||
<fort-media query="metalworking forge iron heat" limit="1"><div class="fort-media" data-fort="media" data-query="metalworking forge iron heat"><img src="https://pixabay.com/get/g5dfd88e129b275e649259c5cca763b5cf27f5af4af6267dea3ff0ba5a002086d0585f41add02b41a6919c1fe8505deecc9df8de1807859f887659c70357f6e92_1280.jpg" alt="forge, iron, meta, metal, forging, steel, blacksmith, old, work, hammer, anvil, craft, design, heat, metalwork, forge, forge, forge, meta, blacksmith, blacksmith, blacksmith, blacksmith, blacksmith" loading="lazy" data-license="RF" data-source="pixabay"></div></fort-media>
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||||
</figure>
|
||||
|
||||
<h3>The Color Tells You First</h3>
|
||||
|
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"title": "Alan Destin",
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"href": "/"
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
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"rel": "films/reading-the-iron/index.html",
|
||||
"title": "Index",
|
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"href": "/films/reading-the-iron/"
|
||||
},
|
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{
|
||||
"rel": "buy-it-once.html",
|
||||
"title": "Buy It Once",
|
||||
"href": "/buy-it-once.html"
|
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},
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{
|
||||
"rel": "fall-maintenance.html",
|
||||
"title": "Fall Home Maintenance: A Handyman's Guide for Upstate NY",
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"href": "/fall-maintenance.html"
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"rel": "negros-fruit-dove.html",
|
||||
"title": "Negros Fruit Dove",
|
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"href": "/negros-fruit-dove.html"
|
||||
},
|
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{
|
||||
"rel": "reading-the-iron.html",
|
||||
"title": "Reading the Iron",
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||||
"href": "/reading-the-iron.html"
|
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},
|
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{
|
||||
"rel": "negros-fruit-dove.html",
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"title": "The Negros Fruit Dove",
|
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"href": "/negros-fruit-dove.html"
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"license": "RF",
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"source": "pixabay",
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|
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