Is Green a blacksmith color?

[John McPherson]

The Vintage Machinery website has **lots** of info on old tools, and even has PDF's of old catalogs, including Buffalo Forge.


http://vintagemachinery.org/mfgindex/detail.aspx?id=129&tab=3

[matei campan]

this color thing reminds me what happened to a teacher of mine who used to have a ~100yrs(?) old lathe in his workshop, which was black (in fact mostly the old steel's patina). once there came a visitor who, looking at the lathe, asked my teacher what tool is that, and, my teacher asked that's a lathe. the visitor, amazed, said "but the lathes aren't green?". in fact almost all industrial equipment till recently was painted green in my country.

[r smith]

this color thing reminds me what happened to a teacher of mine who used to have a ~100yrs(?) old lathe in his workshop, which was black (in fact mostly the old steel's patina). once there came a visitor who, looking at the lathe, asked my teacher what tool is that, and, my teacher asked that's a lathe. the visitor, amazed, said "but the lathes aren't green?". in fact almost all industrial equipment till recently was painted green in my country.

Are you in Ireland? :lol:

[myloh67]

Green was used as a colour on the whole for industrial machinery because out of all the spectrum it's properties help reduce fatigue enabling higher productivity.