Frank Turley Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 This is my 50th year of pounding on hot iron. I learned how at Whatsa Matta U. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmoothBore Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Congratulations ! That's quite a milestone. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doc Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Frank, was that in Frostbite Falls ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solano Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 I spent 6 days with Frank a couple weeks ago. I would reccomend anyone wanting to learn some techniques to go to Frank's school. He is a great traditionalist and historian as well. When the man works hot iron, there is never a wasted move. He makes it easy. Frank, thank you very much for taking the time and effort to share your experience and knowledge. Vince Smith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HWHII Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Congradulations Frank! Thats alot of coal and iron. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted T Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Frank Congratulations. I agree totally with what SmoothBore stated: “That's quite a milestone”. As I have gotten older, I also find that it has become more important to highlight notable events in my life. At this time; I have done more in my past than I will ever do in the amount of time that is left in my future. So I hold tightly to my memories that are filled with the times I spent standing in my favorite place; and that was to stand at the forge and anvil. I knew that when I was forging, I lost track of all of the problems of the world and other things that was fighting for voice in my mind. And that was because I was so busy trying to outsmart a piece of steel that need my full attention (and learned skills) to manipulate hot steel as I had intended without getting burned! I hope for another productive 50 years for you Frank! Just a note: I too am celebrating a 50 year anniversary. I was discharged from the US Army 50 years ago today (March 22, 2013)! I am thankful for every day (18,250 days) of it. Some I knew had (0) days. My Best to you Frank. You have made a positive and everlasting impression in the footprint of the blacksmithing world. If you just think about what you have accomplished; it is amazing how it works. Just add the numerous amounts of people that you have responded to here at I Forge Iron with your knowledge and experience; coupled with all of the students that you have taught in your Blacksmithing School, it adds up to a whole heap of teaching! No doubt they will “in-turn” pass along what you have taught them, and it goes on and on from there. Ted Throckmorton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mat Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 thanks frank, you did a demo here in oz at alan ball's muster. you were the the first blacksmith i ever watched. i wish you many more years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stash Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 Congrats Frank! And thanks for your contributions to this particular community. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bentiron1946 Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 Congratulations to you Frank, I remember seeing you at demo in Tucson a way back in the seventies.We were all so young then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bentiron1946 Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 Congratulations to you Frank, I remember seeing you at demo in Tucson a way back in the seventies.We were all so young then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macbruce Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 Congratulations Frank, I reckon you had been heatin and beatin fo ten years before I met you at your Skunk Hollw Forge demo in 74, where does the time go? Your contribution to the re birth of blacksmithing will long be remembered and my you forge ahead for many more years, Bruce Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Coke Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 Greetings Frank, Just think of the thousands and thousands of blacksmiths that proudly wear your TOUCHMARK... Congrats.. Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Turley Posted March 24, 2013 Author Share Posted March 24, 2013 Thanks to all for the kind comments. I have a tidbit for all those who feel that time flies. N. Scott Momaday is a prize winning author of Kiowa and Cherokee descent. He is an age mate who now resides in Santa Fe, as do I. I attended a lecture of his last year at St. John;s College, Santa Fe, and he mentioned something that was not in print, so I made a mental note of it. He said that in the Kiowa Indian scheme of things, Time was not fleeting. Time was static! Time was immobile! It is we and phenomena as we know it which are moving in, through, and around Time. Momaday was minded of this when he was on a raft trip down the Colorado River and the party began to encounter large. stone walls as they approached the Grand Canyon. They came floating by one particularly huge, vertical, megalithic cliff wall, and Momaday had an epiphany which allowed him to better understand the Kiowa time concept. The cliff wall was Time, and he was moving alongside and through it. Hey! I'm still trying to wrap my mind around this. I was brought up hearing such things as "Time files;" "Time is fleeting;" "Where does the time go;" "If only I had enough time." In any event, I am currently trying to embrace the Kiowa Time idea, so it doesn't seem so much like fime flying anymore. Ha! Give it a try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher M Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 Congrats on 50 By the way that Japanese cutlers hammer you made me is still my favorite, how'd the knife work out for you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Turley Posted March 24, 2013 Author Share Posted March 24, 2013 Christopher, The knife is good. Gracias. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sask Mark Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 Congratulations and thanks for all your contributions Mr. Turley. Your constructive support in many areas is appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry W. Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 Congratulations and take good care of Smokey! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 26, 2013 Share Posted March 26, 2013 Emmert Studebaker would still do a bit of hammering when he was in his 90"s so you still have a ways to go! Congratulations! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ten Hammers Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 Congrats Frank. That school surely was in St. Louis ( whaza matta u ? ). I very much enjoy your knowledge and help. Thank you and many more years to you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arctic Anvil Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 Hey Frank, this is Nanook of the North, I attended your school back in the fall of 88'. Way to go on 50 yrs of smithing. You taught me skills I had no idea I could do. thanks again!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basher Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 Congratulations Frank , Thats a long time at the hammer. I am just a wee nipper and this year will be my 20th at the anvil. Are you going to have a party?....I am. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Turley Posted April 24, 2013 Author Share Posted April 24, 2013 Congratulations Frank , Thats a long time at the hammer. I am just a wee nipper and this year will be my 20th at the anvil. Are you going to have a party?....I am. My helper, Daniel, and my wife, Juanita,arranged a surprise b'day party for me a couple years ago, my 75th. A local smith, Peter Joseph, gave me a signed Samuel Yellin letter opener. Helmut Hillenkamp gave me a small, intricate Ecuadoran padlock made by Manuel Guerra. That will have to supersede any idea of a 50 year smithery party. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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