David Ab

You know you're a farrier if your wife wakes up one morning, looks at her feet, and says, "You been sleep-walkin' again, ain't you?"

Every time you go to a restaurant you go into the kitchen and tell the chef he needs a real knife. Even McDonalds...

Your idea of fun is posting a video of you shaving with your lawnmower blade after you spheroidize, regrind, heat-treat, and sharpen it.

Your 105 year old mother in law tells you that the 50 hunting knives you have already made for her are probably enough, and maybe you could just get her some flowers for her next birthday...

You always carry a skinning knife with you in your truck, because it's the perfect bribe for getting out of traffic tickets.

You don't own a table saw because "A real man can make cabinets with a sheet of plywood and a sharp paring knife."

When a boy wants to date your daughter, you take him out to your forge and have him make a 15" bowie knife out of 01 steel, and then you send him off into the woods, telling him, "Come back with a bear skin, or date someone else's daughter."

I was a roofer for 36 years, and that's the same way I learned to hold and swing my roofing hammer, so I could pound 5,000 or so nails a day with no problems in my arm or hand.