Make a rope holder to hold two strands of rope. This is to remind the public to keep at a safe distance. Someone will step over, under or around so be watchful and immediately stop all work till they return to a safe location.
As to the questions, you may have heard it 100 times today, but the person making the comment is usually honest in their question or comment. You need to treat the question politely and with a informative answer. To reply with a quick zinger does not benifit you or the craft. You can simply say that a farrier is a speciality in blacksmithing. Or that in their grandfathers or other relatives day, " blacksmithing was necessary to the rural style of living. Also explain that their grandfather did not own a cell phone, the same cell phone which many people can not live without today. Times change.
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Tools do not make the blacksmith, the blacksmith makes the tools. gc
If you do not build a box, then you do not have to think outside the box.
If someone questions your standards, they are not high enough.
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