Have you ever hammered till your hands bled?

No, but during multi-day instruction courses, I've hammered through blisters until they became callus's!

Yep, then I learned to keep my thumb out of the way. :lol:

My hands have bled while hammering but it's not quite the same thing. I try to take a break or don proper PPE if I'm doing myself damage. Blisters don't count unless they're serious.

A person has to use common sense or it isn't going to matter what you get into, you'll do yourself a serious mischief.

Frosty the Lucky.

Have you ever hammered till your hands bled?

No..but Ive bled when I flypressed me head.. boom boom.!

Bled? Yes. Caused by the hammer? No. Get hand too close to something I shouldn't? Yes.
Clutz? Probably!

Lost feeling in my arm from the elbow down from working longer than I should have? Yes, right now that I think of it.

Safety first. Glasses, glove, steel toed boots, knowing when you reach your safe working time, etc...

Enjoy yourself and be safe so you can work another day.

Mark<><

Never! I forge for enjoyment and occasionally to make something I really need. Hammering till your hands bleed is not fun.....

Never till my hand bled, but finger tip between hammer and anvil sure bled alot after the finger nail decided to try and go through my finger. Never going to try and straighten 1" rings held in my fingers again.

Oh man Infinity! My gut just wrenched when I read your post! :blink:

Have you ever hammered till your hands bled?

You should NEVER preform any task to the point it injuries your body. It is called personal safety, YOUR personal responsibility to keep YOU safe. Find a better way, a safer way.

A beginner is no match for a blacksmith that works 10 hours a day, every day, for years. The blacksmith did not start at 10 hours, but worked one hour at the forge, learned, studied, and then rested. His body recovered, learned, and developed to meet the new challenge. It took time. Ask how long the fellow has been hammering at that anvil, say 5 years, 10 years, 20 years. Set your pace so you can be as good or better in the same amount of time.

Yes I have left blood on the anvil, DNA on projects, etc, but looking back it was always because I was taking a short cut, or was tired, etc, and it could have been avoided.