January 25, 201412 yr If hoarding is a mental illness then by the looks of most blacksmith shops I seen there is a Whole Lot of Hoarders running around calling themselves Blacksmiths! By the looks of the posts here we have a large # of folks touring around salvage yards trying to find and buy stuff that others have recently sold as junk. Is this something a sane person does regularly on his free time or days off? I hope so as my family has started looking oddly at me when I pull into the yard with a lot of Valuable Finds in my truck, some talk of not letting me leave alone any longer plus trading my truck for a VW Bug! The tailgating sales areas at Blacksmithing events look a whole lot like Hoarders on Wheels. If hoarding is an illness it must be highly contagious.
February 4, 201412 yr Nobody has ever alleged that blacksmiths were sane, notown! You're talking about people that are forging iron even in the sweltering summer heat. Guys that fight sub-zero temperatures to get their forges lit. Folks that don't mind setting themselves on fire as long as the project got done right, or don't even realize they've added a dozen new burn holes in their shirt until the missus tells them about it. Yea, rust aplenty, but sanity in short supply! ;)
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