hdwarner Posted December 2, 2007 Share Posted December 2, 2007 i was watching a rerun of the rifleman the other night and the so called "town blacksmith " was hitting a BLACK piece of steel and he wasn't even hitting it hard , you know "dink dink dink" and the coal forge was just smoking a little . i screamed at the tv "HIT IT HIT IT" i guess i am no better than the people watching sports being a arm chair coach. my wife said the blacksmith was probally an actor and i exclaimed right back , well he failed blacksmith acting school miserebly!!! why i oughta . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don A Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 There's an awful background scene in the Lonesome Dove prequel, "Dead Man's Walk" (I think), the one with the young guys. The smith. or farrier, or whatever he was, pulls a shoe out of the fire, quenches it in the tub (hiss, steam, hiss), then lays it on the anvil and starts beating on it. At least it looks and sounds cool. Don Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete46 Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 Blacksmiths Hitting Cold Iron! Some Body Stop The Freak Train And Load Em Up!!!!!!!:o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RainsFire Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 What about rambo or whatever it was.. rocky? I'm not so good with the classics.. but Rocky Balboa was banging away on a knife he was making.. quenching it and so on.. kinda funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnW Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 RainsFire maybe you're thinking of "The Hunted"The Hunted (2003) This is a Tommy Lee Jones movie, where he's a special forces trainer who has to hunt down one of his students that went crazy and killed 4 deer hunters. In the movie, this guy makes a knife from leaf spring, on a wood fire, I believe using a rock for an anvil. Not too, too, far fetched except that he made the perfect knife (so sharp you can't handle it, so tough nothing can break it) all in one very short time. Who says don't mess with used steel? We don't need no stinkin' 2" x 72" grinder or a heat treat oven. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don A Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 Here's what RainsFire is talking about:YouTube - Rambo III Deleted Knife Scene It's not exactly tutorial quality, but I have seen worse... maybe. Don Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yesteryearforge Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 A lot of you are probally to young to remember that Burt Reynolds started out as the half breed blacksmith on GUNSMOKE I know I know --- who is Burt Reynolds and what the heck is GUNSMOKE. Deliverance Smokey and the bandit Gunsmoke was a western tv show back in the day. Mike Tanner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mende Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 Has anyone seen the sword forging scene in Conan? .. Or if you played Neverwinter Nights ..a "hero" gets a fully finished sword ..with fuller and with the furniture on it. .out of the fire. .and beats it hard ..and then . .cools it. . without changing it's shape. . Also in the early episodes of Hercules. .. there was that hot babe blacksmith ..but who was looking at the forging huh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 How about that scene in Robin Hood where he casts a steel arrowhead in medieval England---predating Huntsman's introduction of cast steel by centuries! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finnr Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 Taking up smithing added one more thing for me to scream at the TV about. I do medieval re enactment so I already was screaming about things being from the wrong time period etc/ Now I scream at the "smiths" too. Finnr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Six words: Orlando Bloom: Pirates of the Caribean. Nuff said :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mende Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 Orlando bloom redeems himself a bit in Kingdom of Heaven, altho he keeps beating on the anvil supposedly to keep the tempo ... the main thing I hate is that he is introduced as a full time smith that's done nothing but beat iron all his life at the beginning of both movies. ..but he is small and skinny .. and you would expect a lot more muscles on someone with such a profession. Also. .If you have the chance ... check out that episode of MythBusters in which they test the myth of exploding hammers. The case hardening procedure they attempted sucked .. and they used a sucky Harbor Freight anvil that had CHINA written on it with raised lettering=>cast iron. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbrforge Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 small and skinny is good, I prefer to think of my self as wirey. I can out work a lot of "heavily muscled" men. Ninety percent mental Ten percent muscle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
habu68 Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 In "Return of the man called horse" the smith keeps tempo by alternating strikes of the hammer with striking the butt of his hammer handle on the face of the anvil, as if to tighten the head on the handle. Worst "Retun Of" movie ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don A Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 Six words: Orlando Bloom: Pirates of the Caribean. Nuff said Did you ever notice how long that hot blade he was swinging held its heat? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.S.T. Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 What about The 13th Warrior in witch Antonio Banderas re forges a viking sword into a scimitar. A.S.T. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
primtechsmith Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 Don... Mike and I joke about that scene from time to time. He introduced me to the Lonesome Dove series....I love a good western. Mende.... Mythbusters revisited that myth later on and got a smith out in their area to use his gasser to heat them up and then quench it in what looked to be "super quench".....he also let them take back what looked to be an ozark(Tom Clark Ozark School of Blacksmithing) anvil to use for the tests....the results were about the ame. Nothing exploded just some cracks and chips. Cool none the less. Peyton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 I had never realized that Antonio was such a wimp as when he had so much trouble using a viking sword that would weigh only between 2-3 pounds and so had to cut it down... And a lot of smiths were small and wirey and some were large and brawny and nowdays a lot of us tend toward the rotund---my wife says if I get much rotunder I'll have to start worrying about attracting satellites... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete46 Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 Thomas, Cut The Heat Off ! She Will Be Grateful For Some Rotundness !:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don A Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 Don... Mike and I joke about that scene from time to time. He introduced me to the Lonesome Dove series....I love a good western. Have you seen the commercials for the new mini-series of the final chapter in the Lonesome Dove series? Comanche Moon is the name... another "prequel", I believe. Looks promising. Don Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferrous Beuler Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 Remember "Back to the future"? In one of them, (back to the future 2?) "Doc" was the scientist who discovered time travel by means of his inventions. Trouble was, once he went back into the past to the 1880's and got himself stuck without his modern lab, he had to learn blacksmithing so he could fabricate a new time machine and get "back to the future". Only a blacksmith could do this!:cool:Dan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hdwarner Posted December 15, 2007 Author Share Posted December 15, 2007 i seen Lorne Green in bonanza turning the crank of a small buffalo rivet forge and talking his usual nonsense to a passerbyer i didn't see an anvil or a horse , you don't suppose he had a branding iron in the fire and was going to brand HOSS do you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skunkriv Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 Maybe that's why HopSing SANG!:cool: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hdwarner Posted December 15, 2007 Author Share Posted December 15, 2007 i wondered how he got that little guy to cook all the time, notice there were no cats on the bonanza ranch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Pete, we don't heat our bedroom. As I go to bed earlier than her, my typical "welcome" when she crawls into bed is to say "been dead long?". Flannel sheets and a down comforter do a great job and a small sheep's fleece to put my feet on makes it justy right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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