When I was about 15 and just starting to play with hot metal I did a good one. I was setting up to finish annealing a knife made of a file; it was red hot and I dropped it. Out of pure reaction I snatched it out of the air. My fingers stuck to the blade, and the air filled with that wonderful aroma.
Funniest bad burn, not smithing related? I burned my xxx on the wall heater trying to warm up after getting out of the shower. Made a two inch checkerboard blister on me, and a scar that I carry twenty years later.
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