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Officially, Nick Bounds is a metal fabrication technician but most of his co-workers at the city's East Yard still refer to him by the old title of blacksmith. He makes specialized metal tools for the city's water maintenance workers at a base on E. Hennepin Avenue that's a throwback, with its 1898 horsebarn with hayloft and rows of cast metal water valves. It's a yard the city wants to move to the Hiawatha area.