John Martin Posted November 4, 2007 Share Posted November 4, 2007 Post your blacksmith sayings or sayings that you've heard before. This should get interesting. A Sign above a smithy read: Iron becomes a living creature in the dragon's lair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RainsFire Posted November 4, 2007 Share Posted November 4, 2007 erm, heres a real origional one.. "Strike while the irons hot!!" "A blacksmiths hell is not made of fire and brimstone, It is a world of clinker" thats not the exact wording but ya..read it somewhere.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skunkriv Posted November 4, 2007 Share Posted November 4, 2007 This has been done a couple times. Do a search in Blacksmithin' on "strike while the iron is hot" an you will find many. Revive one of those threads if you can add some more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finnr Posted November 4, 2007 Share Posted November 4, 2007 Ya mean sayings other than "$&(*@)_@)+)@!*U_@!+@*$&@&%@!_(#*! that was hot? Finnr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted November 4, 2007 Share Posted November 4, 2007 someone look up the original thread and I will combine the two threads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted November 4, 2007 Share Posted November 4, 2007 How about 'jumped up'? I know it's another way of saying upset (in the Smithing sense of the word) but it also means upstart or arrogant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nonjic Posted November 4, 2007 Share Posted November 4, 2007 I would love to contribute but ive got to many irons in the fire as it is....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt87 Posted November 4, 2007 Share Posted November 4, 2007 Now now Ian don't lose your temper over it! After all, you are a man of mettle... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 How about this one. You're ###^(#&%*^$@@*!! KILLIN me Finn! Frosty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solvarr Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 get it hot hit it hard repeat as necessary another pebble for my pile of stones (reference to how smiths accumulate little bits of info) I need a third arm (slang for I need a helper, there are some vulgar versions of this involving prehensile appendages I've heard) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 The Blacksmithing influence, how blacksmithing words and phrases are used. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Turner Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 Here is one that my instructor was yelling at all of us at farrier school. You'll go to hell for hitting cold steel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammerkid Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 well this saying happened to me yesterday evening when I fired my forge & it got going I was working on a letter opener and rr spike knife and well "had to many irons in the fire" . I will post pictures later today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Hale Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 Just because it is not red don't mean it is cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 Don't look at it, HIT IT! what the fellow teaching me billet welding used to say back in the early 1980's... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finnr Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 Hit it like it owes you money, What I say to my timid students Finnr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnW Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 "Hotter than a $5 pistol" by PPW (probably not originally). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
habu68 Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 From the day when the Blacksmith was a respected and central businessman in a community, he was often called on as a witness to a trade or business deal. Hence "to strike a deal" or "forge a bargain " the auctioneer's hammer is a symbol of this tradition. To forge a bond, and the response to picking up steel at a black heat.... It never took me to long to look at a horse shoe... and last to urge on a timid striker," HIT IT, It's not your mama...." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rusty_iron Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 By hammer and hand, Do all the trades stand! Rusty_iron Brisbane, Oz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derektrance Posted May 9, 2016 Share Posted May 9, 2016 Somone's signature I saw the other day said: "There are no mistakes in Metal or Men" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gote Posted May 10, 2016 Share Posted May 10, 2016 Helvetet är fullt med kallsmeder. Hell is full of smiths working too cold Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 10, 2016 Share Posted May 10, 2016 I thought that was, "Hell is full of blacksmiths working for a cold one." Here's one as old as smithing any metal, "OW, that's hot!" And don't forget, "Where IS that blankety blank!" "You want it WHEN?" Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted May 10, 2016 Share Posted May 10, 2016 Don't forget the ever popular, "you can have it cheap, you can have it good and you can have it fast, but you only get to pick two." or the always popular "price dependent on your attitude" or "shop rate $60 an hour, $80 if you watch, $100 if you want to help and $120 if you worked on it first." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borntoolate Posted May 10, 2016 Share Posted May 10, 2016 maybe combine this with Gems and Pearls thread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmoothBore Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 Although to the best of my knowledge, Ron White doesn't claim to be a blacksmith, his most famous line surely applies to many situations encountered in my shop. "You can't fix stupid". . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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