Brad_Blazer Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 I noticed a couple of nice videos in the sidebar of the chain/anchor video on Youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRKQB_k1MLo&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=v7fPp8PcN6o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ten Hammers Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 Stewart, the simple answer on the glove is because she wants to keep her hand cooler (and apparently she has no handled punch). Come forge a few 16" plates with me. Tongs holding the hot have 16" reins. THAT hand gets a glove sometimes. Hammer hand never does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeddly Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 I was thinking she was using the glove to keep the punch from loosing its heat treat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John McPherson Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 Size and strength are a relative thing, depending or the work you do. Since the industrial revolution, we all have the chance to "work smarter, not harder". We have had this thing called a "powerhammer" for just ages now, and I don't see anyone distaining electric or air tools in a welding shop. I took a American Bladesmithing Society forging class from Bill Moran in the 90's. He was half my size and twice my age, and could work rings around me and anyone else in the class. There are female Master Bladesmiths. (They say ABS stands for Asbestos Bra Society.) One not only passed the cutting demonstration, she did it in high heels! We have had dozens of women come thru our CC welding program and suceed, and dozens of macho guys quit when they were afraid of getting hurt (or afraid of doing work.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beth Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 what has wearing, or not wearing a glove, got to do with being a competent blacksmith stuart :) male or female?.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Sells Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 Stew is just upset because he is not as pretty as she is :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beth Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 do it :) although we will disagree - i certainly dont believe glove/no glove has any bearing on her or anyone else being a blacksmith or not..!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iron woodrow Posted February 26, 2012 Author Share Posted February 26, 2012 i wear gloves and glasses, but only when i feel the need or the heat, otherwise i wear niether. glasses fog up and gloves impede coordination. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beth Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 me too woody, i often wear a glove on the hand nearest the heat, ( i dont have many handled tools either..) but usually go without when i can, but i couldnt care a less if someone else does something different, they can still be a top class smith....? i usually wear my ox/ace glasses near the fire just cos my eyes go weird if i dont, and also many times ive had hot coke jump out in my face.. :ph34r: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan P. Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 Where do you get 200years from, evidence for a blacksmiths guild dates back to 1299, Incorporation as a livery company came by Queen Elizabeth the first in 1571 So 700 years plus according to when I was taught to do add up's and takeaway's, and I think its a fair assumption it didn't just happen Jan 1st 1299 Was Tijou a member in the 1700's when he did the original work at Hampton Court and Kensington Palace ? Incorporated; 1571, subscription surrendered; 1785, i.e. 214 years operating as a proper guild. And I don't believe there is any reason to think that Tijou had anything to do with the (at that time apparently already moribund) Worshipful Company. I doubt very much that he would have been allowed membership anyway, being French. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John B Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 I stand corrected, I know nothing. So the WCB is not a guild after 1785, up to the present day? Just a Livery Company? And there are no accredited qualifications for blacksmithing in the UK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gobae Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 Funny we have Guild Regulations from the Medieval/Renaissance periods restricting women to working only in the blacksmith shops of their Father, Brother or Husband---so we know that women were smithing centuries years ago as people tend to not make laws against something that's not happening... I've seen this mentioned a number of times but no one I've seen has ever sourced it. Do you have the actual source by chance? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan P. Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 I stand corrected, I know nothing. So the WCB is not a guild after 1785, up to the present day? Just a Livery Company? I'm just repeating information that I gathered from reading the "history" link that you posted.And there are no accredited qualifications for blacksmithing in the UK A National Occupational Standard is being sought by, I believe, NHIG, to redress that situation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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