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10-21-2007, 11:07 PM
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 Blacksmithing - self help program
What are the signs blacksmithing has taken over your life? Is it rushing home from work and skipping dinner so you can work at the forge, collecting rusty metal, the ton of coal in the back yard? What are the signs we need to look for ?
__________________ 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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10-21-2007, 11:32 PM
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You'd rather go to the flea market on Saturday to look for punches, vises, hammers, etc. than to watch your (previously) favorite college football team.
__________________ \"Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement\" ...Will Rogers |
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10-21-2007, 11:45 PM
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uh ohh.. I've been described so far, You consider yourself fortunate for living so close to the railroad. Your computer history is greater than 50% iforgeiron/other smithing websites. you never see this thread because you are currently in fact beating on some metal somewhere. |
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10-22-2007, 12:04 AM
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I guess blacksmithing never took over my life, I couldn't wait to get home from the shop, take a bath to get unblack and grimy and get down to the wood shop to play and relax, never had any desire to cruise RR tracks for junk iron, had enough at the shop why bring more home to fill up the junk iron barrel. Never really enjoyed demoing smithing on week ends cause I did it all week long as a job, But I did enjoy demoing hand tool Woodworking as no one else was doing it. And I got a bang outa watching the wannabe smiths demoing near me.
__________________ Irnsrgn Knowledge must be shared or it lies dead in the mind. The Blacksmith must use Hammer and Flame to force the iron down the path of his own choosing. I usually find it much easier to be wrong once in while than to try to be perfect. |
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10-22-2007, 09:16 AM
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when my wife texts me an hour before work is over and does not mention dinner but asks Are We Gonna Hammer something this evening.
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10-22-2007, 10:47 AM
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10-22-2007, 12:30 PM
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No he is not! You *never* want to share a hobby with your wife; sure you get to use more of the household funds buying tools for it; but they they always want to *use* those same tools when you want to! You have the urge to work in the shop and you find out the propane tank's empty, you can't set up to work on a project cause the DW's project is hogging the layout table, etc. Far better to have hobbies that don't share the same space of tools! My wife of 23 years is a spinster and has no need or urges to bring her materials or equipment any where near the smithy! Sheer Joy!
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10-22-2007, 06:36 PM
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I've had rusty metal and tons of coal in the back yard for a long time. Guess that makes me a lifetime addict! What's even worse, I've noticed on days when I not smithing.....and happen to walk by the shop, that I'm drawn in to the smell of the doused coke from the last fire! The aroma tells me "Time to hammer some iron"!
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