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What will happen?
shred:
IME, the highest standards of classic "model engineering" seem to be making accurate scale models of, well, old stuff. Everything from the industrial revolution up to when it revolted enough that it became largely too complex and uninteresting for most. That's kind of Steam-through-early-Gas, and not much further. Seems to have been that way for a while. The "old stuff worthy of modelling" line doesn't advance as fast as the years do.
There's a large number of professional engineers that chose that career path because they like making things and probably spent hours taking things apart as children. They don't get to do much of that for real at work anymore. The ones that get a hankering to build things again tend to go create complicated programs or robots or, ten to one, gravitate to woodwork. Around here that's a slightly more presentable hobby; after all you're making useful things, plus supplies and information abound. Every so often one wants to play with metal and we can suck them in.
flint:
I'll be the first to say that many of the old skills have been if not lost, nearly lost. But there is still a great deal of interest in the old ways. As long as we have programs like the one below we will have a new generation to carry on.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2009/08/12/sask-blacksmithing-ness-creek.html?ref=rss
I don't know about making an iron bed. It reminds me of the saying ...If you have a hammer everything looks like a nail! But take note of the 13 y.o who is not afraid to get his hands dirty!
If you googlemap Ness Creek you will find it in the middle of a forest in Northern Saskatchewan Canada. People attended from hundreds of miles around.
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