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I Forge Iron

GoodWife

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    Elgin, TX
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    Building a forge. I'll probably play in it some, but mostly I'm enabling my husband to smith. He's been interested in it for ages.

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  1. This is the key thing- if your hobby makes your wife work twice as hard, she will hate your hobby. Most people who don't do the work, don't understand just how much work it is to keep a house nice and clean. It's disrespectful to have your fun turn into more work for your significant other!
  2. Hi there, I'm the wife of a newbie smith. My husband has been wanting to get into blacksmithing for ages, and I'm all about him getting to do fun things for himself. He's not very good about spending money on himself, or taking the time to do the things that really make him happy, so once he finds something that he wants to do, I sort of bounce at it Tigger style and make things happen. We have a cool old shed in the back yard of our new house that we call the Murder Shed- it's this rusted metal monstrosity that looks like something from a horror movie. One part has been claimed by my gardening stuff, but a second semi-attached shed, with power already run to it, is slated to become the smithy. Hubs has stated a preference for working with a gas forge, which I'm all for because the thought of having to clean coal dust off things Does Not Make For Happy Wife. I'm trying to find nearby (Austin area) workshops and things for him to go to, and generally figure out what needs to be acquired to get him started. At this point I'm mostly trying to find an anvil for him, because he can (and probably will) do the rest. I might do a little smithing myself, because I'm a bad XXX Irish peasant wife with mad upper body strength (from years of breeding for hauling potatoes, I assume), but this is mostly his thing. Nice to meet y'all and I've already learned a LOT from just lurking! please watch the Language.
  3. I wanted to say thanks for this thread- I know it's an old one but I actually joined so I could see the pictures for how all this was working!
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