My smithing hat has the horseshoe with the red circle and slash on it front and center and I usually get the same comments/questions
My stock answer is: "Horses are *bigger* than I am and *dumber* than I am and that's just too scarey a combination for me!"
If they are really interested in the differences I can go into the history of the crafts and that on the american fronteir there would often be only one smith and he did a bit of everything. For older folks I can remind them of the *old* westerns where there was both a blacksmith shop and a forge at the livery stable showing the split of the crafts.
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Thomas
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