November 4, 200718 yr 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.
November 4, 200718 yr 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..
November 4, 200718 yr 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.
November 4, 200718 yr Ya mean sayings other than "$&(*@)_@)+)@!*U_@!+@*$&@&%@!_(#*! that was hot? Finnr
November 4, 200718 yr 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.
November 4, 200718 yr I would love to contribute but ive got to many irons in the fire as it is.......
November 4, 200718 yr Now now Ian don't lose your temper over it! After all, you are a man of mettle...
November 5, 200718 yr 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)
November 5, 200718 yr Here is one that my instructor was yelling at all of us at farrier school. You'll go to hell for hitting cold steel.
November 5, 200718 yr 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.
November 5, 200718 yr Don't look at it, HIT IT! what the fellow teaching me billet welding used to say back in the early 1980's...
November 6, 200718 yr 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...."
May 9, 201610 yr Somone's signature I saw the other day said: "There are no mistakes in Metal or Men"
May 10, 201610 yr 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.
May 10, 201610 yr 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."
May 11, 201610 yr 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". .
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