Woodworker Roy Underhill says to blacksmith Peter Ross, " You have the most exciting job in woodworking,  not working with wood, but making the tools for woodworkers.

 

 

"Skills first, tools second." -- Judson Yaggy

Ran across this in the archive from January 19, 2014

Anachronist58  Posted 

IForgeIron makes me smarter!  Glenn, I have spent so much time reading posts on this forum, you might think that I am putting my marriage at risk.

 

Almost 6 years you are still married and still on the site. You must have achieved a balance between the two. (grin)

 

Above the clouds, It is always Sunny!!!  ~ Swedefiddle

I.D.F.&C.,

Except,

during nuclear winter!

SLAG.

"By Grabthar's hammer we live to tell the tail!", Dr. Lazarus.

"A loose anvil makes my tinnitus ring like Quasimodo swinging around Notre Dame."   Nobody Special

Heard at a tongs making workshop in Johnstown, PA.

"You can't hit it if you can't hang onto it" ~ Pat Quinn

 

On 12/11/2013 at 2:23 PM, Chinobi said:

"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it."

Glorious. I just shared that with my boss.

I've noticed myself starting to use "Strike while the iron is hot" for its intended meaning. Like, if my lady and I are already having a difficult conversation, why not have another one? I'm already doing the dishes; why not clean the stove? 

I would give a prospective client an estimate, not a quote. Pnut

Use todays time to your advantage.

Spend todays time to get a project a little closer to completion.  When you finally get the last piece, put it in place.  A final tweek and he entire job is finished.  

 

Measure twice, cut once.

Measure once, cut twice, hammer three times.

"just because you can't do it doesn't mean it can't be done."   ~posted by Frosty~

Do Good Works Every Day

 

You have everything you need except the experience to know it.  Jasent

"all my best work belongs to other people; but I own all my mistakes!"  ~ Thomas Powers

"Experience is what you get when you don't get what you wanted to..." - JPH

Sometimes the Hurrier you go, the behinder you get. ~swedefiddle

In the new year may your hand always be stretched in friendship and never in need. ~ BillyBones

I can not take credit for that. It is an old Irish blessing. 

I knew it is an old Irish blessing, but you put it down here. This is one I like about enemies.

 

May those who love us, love us. 

And those that don't love us, 

May God turn their hearts.

And if He doesn't turn their hearts, 

May he turn their ankles, 

So we'll know them by their limping.

Meat packers use everything from a pig except the squeal, a smith can use everything but the forge smoke and abrasive dust! Thomas Powers

"While you're still in school, stealing ideas is cheating. After you leave school, stealing ideas is 'Best Practices'." -- Paul Cramer

 

Do not underestimate the ability of flat surfaces to become magnetic and attract all manner of things.  

On 1/4/2020 at 9:03 PM, Glenn said:

Meat packers use everything from a pig except the squeal, a smith can use everything but the forge smoke and abrasive dust! Thomas Powers

Glenn, my wife and I were just watching Alec Steele clean up a piece and wondering if something could be done with all that dust.