Hammer, Anvil, and Clutch

“Long ago, the car business stamped the DIY shifter’s passport to extinction.”

Would you train your kid to be a blacksmith today? Sure, there is a movement afoot recognizing that the trades are a viable alternative to higher education, but it’s a far cry from plumber or HVAC tech to blacksmith. There was certainly a time when a man wielding a hammer and working on an anvil alongside a stoked furnace —