ThomasPowers Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 Hey I'm filing callouses off my feet with a farrier's rasp---does that count? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpankySmith Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 Hey I'm filing callouses off my feet with a farrier's rasp---does that count? Yup, but the grinders faster...though I'm forming a mental picture of you trying to hoist your foot up to a grinding wheel....I don't think that ends well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turbo7 Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 if you knock the broken edges off your teeth with a file. If you drive a hot wire through a tooth to stop a tooth ace. (both true, second one by a better man than me) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpankySmith Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 If you drive a hot wire through a tooth to stop a tooth ace. (both true, second one by a better man than me) OH! Gah!!!! That hurts me to even read! Oh Geeze, I'm gonna have that picture in my head all night!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 OH! Gah!!!! That hurts me to even read! Oh Geeze, I'm gonna have that picture in my head all night!! Me too Spanky, I'm sitting here trying to figure out how to gouge my mind's eye out! Frosty The Lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ausfire Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 That hot wire in the tooth story - wow. My father-in-law was not a blacksmith or a redneck but he was a tough old bushie. I recall watching him saw through a blackened fingernail with a hacksaw blade to release the pressure. Still makes me shiver to think of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 That hot wire in the tooth story - wow. My father-in-law was not a blacksmith or a redneck but he was a tough old bushie. I recall watching him saw through a blackened fingernail with a hacksaw blade to release the pressure. Still makes me shiver to think of that. I've done that with a small drill bit on a fresh black fingernail more than once. Dad used a heated pin on my thumb once. I've been asked by friends to drill a relief hole in a finger/toe nail a few times, a couple times with whatever was handy being my (really sharp) pocket knife. It's one thing to poke a hole in a fingernail to let the blood out but it's a world different killing the nerve in a tooth (whatever's going on) with a heated wire. This is going to be giving me the willies for a long time. <shudder> Frosty The Lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Special Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 Ain't done the tooth, in my skinny, running days, did the hot wire burn through the nail to relieve a blood blister. Hurt some, but felt better. If you've ever used chewing tobacco for a handle stain........from yer spit cup, might be a redneck blacksmith. (works lovely on high tannin woods. low tannin woods, can soak in tea first. Helps if you let it sit in ammonia for a bit.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogsoldat Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 The super tiny carbide drill bits that some dremel kits have work a real treat for making a relief hole in a finger nail. You have to be real gentle on the last little bit of nail and membrane as they are sharp and jump thru that last little bit in a hurry and makes for a bit more of an ouch factor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John McPherson Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 If you have ever spit some tobacco juice into a dried out can of paste flux so that you can torch solder a guard on a knife. And it works! True story: saw Jim Batson do that at a hammer-in once. It was the only time we ever saw him spit. My friend Michael and I were sitting on the sidelines watching him make damascus, and we thought that he was counting the blows under his breath, or chewing gum. Nope, that man swallows. :blink: I will never be a real blacksmith if that is what it takes to pass the final exam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Coke Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 IF..... Your demo tent and your RV are both bigger than the house you live in... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redouxranch Posted August 16, 2014 Author Share Posted August 16, 2014 IF..... Your demo tent and your RV are both bigger than the house you live in... Sounds like a man with his priorities straight!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacobd Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 I love me some grizzly wintergreen, but swallowing gives me heartburn like crazy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Special Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 If you've ever changed clothes before forging to avoid getting holes in your good overalls..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LastRonin Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 If your wife has ever fussed at you for NOT changing before forging because you DID get holes in your good overalls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 If you have good coveralls you might NOT be a redneck! You might NOT be a redneck if you have any clothes without burn holes in them. Frosty The Lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drewed Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 If you have to put the forge back on the truck so your wife dan drive it into town... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 Frosty the good coveralls are the ones you wear to church---or a wedding! (Done both...ended up being an usher at the wedding...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Special Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 Clothes without burn holes in them? What's that? .....they're just less noticable. Think of the Johnny Cash song (well, Kris Kristofferson, but still) where he mentions putting on his cleanest dirty shirt..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John McPherson Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 .... if you skinned and brain tanned your own apron and/or bellows leather. Bonus points if you forged the skinning knife and hide scraper. Double bonus points if you brought it down with a weapon that you made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianinsa Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Double bonus points if you brought it down with a weapon that you made.Does changing out a flat tire count???? (grin) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ptree Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 You might be a redneck blacksmith if your daughter's first car had a forged dragon hood ornament, especially if a long blonde haired Barbie was riding said dragon. You are for sure a redneck blacksmith if the art car Dragon and Barbie becomes the hood ornament on you 72 Chevy pickup. Especially if the hair on the Barbie is you HUD speedometer:) Edit by moderator Yes it does exist and there ARE pictures (grin) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elemental Metal Creations Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 When your helping a friend in his garden, he asks if you have a hammer and you get your small hammer out of the trunk. He says, you carry a 3lb hammer in your car? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Special Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 If you're working in any garden and the tool that comes to mind is a 3 lb hammer.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 You might be a redneck blacksmith if your daughter's first car had a forged dragon hood ornament, especially if a long blonde haired Barbie was riding said dragon. You are for sure a redneck blacksmith if the art car Dragon and Barbie becomes the hood ornament on you 72 Chevy pickup. Especially if the hair on the Barbie is you HUD speedometer:) Edit by moderator Yes it does exist and there ARE pictures ptree dragon.jpg Ptrees post has been edited to include pictures of the hood ornament. Yes it does exist and there ARE pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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