Oh, great. Thanks @JHCC. That xxxxxx song has been looping in my head for the past month or so, got it out of my system just yesterday. Here we go again, and again. And again!

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It's a small world after all! It's a small world after all! It's a small small world!

did that help?

The difference between a blacksmith and a farrier is directly proportional to the difference between a knife fighter and a cardiac surgeon.

"My best advice for knifemaking [is to] resist the urge to make a knife for as long as you can." -- @Charcold

50 minutes ago, JHCC said:

"My best advice for knifemaking [is to] resist the urge to make a knife for as long as you can." --

Pure, unadulterated blasphemous heresy, that. 

Eppur si muove   or if your prefer: res ipsa loquitur!

“There is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman,”     Walter Gropius founder of the Bauhaus.

Eppur si muove ... attributed to Galileo as a statement of defiance against the establishment, and discredited as not authentic for a long time, may be actually true. 

It certainly fits Galileo's character, the father of the scientific method, and should be adopted as a motto by those who object to any false hypothesis supported for conformity. 

Another in the vein of blacksmithing and bias is this :"The locksmith is the guilty one, but the blacksmith hangs.:

 

 

A good anvil should last well beyond the service life of the blacksmith.

On 12/2/2013 at 10:21 PM, thingmaker3 said:

Everything in a blacksmith shop is either heavy or sharp or hot. Most things in a blacksmith shop are at least two of those.

If the Earth and your work are trying to get a closer look at each other, it is best to LET THEM.

That's great, never try to catch a falling gun, knife or hot metal!  

Yes it would be nice to have 5 weekends and 2 work days in a week. But we have to work with what we have available.

3 hours ago, Darrell Delaney said:

That's great, never try to catch a falling gun, knife or hot metal!  

ANYTHING, especially if it's heavy! Just step back and pick it up once it's stopped moving. Anymore the only falling things I try catching are fragile valuables, say a china cup, a baby, etc. I don't heal as fast as I used to so its gotta be worth it.

Frosty The Lucky.

The only big heavy hot thing that I try to catch when it's falling is Me. 

28 minutes ago, Daswulf said:

The only big heavy hot thing that I try to catch when it's falling is Me. 

Not Elizabeth?  

Well, ok her too. I was just bein funny. 

"I know enough to be dangerous" ~ MotoMike

I've got that beat, I know I know enough to be dangerous so I'm always careful. 

Frosty The Lucky.

"If you hit your hand with a hammer while wearing gloves.... it still hurts." -Paul Street 

Still true to this day.

"The problem isn't the problem, but is the attitude you have about the problem" don't know who said that one.

                                                                                                                                    Littleblacksmith 

Well, Marcus Aurelius said in his Meditations, "Of every particular thing, inquire 'What is this, in its own construction?'" In other words, respond to the thing itself, not to how you feel about the thing or what you think the thing is, but what it ACTUALLY is.

"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something  idiotproof, is to underestimate the ingenuity of idiots."

I know enough to be dangerous, just not when.

In the New Mexico summer we take stock off the scrap pile using tongs and stick it in the forge to cool down... Thomas Powers

6 hours ago, Glenn said:

In the New Mexico summer we take stock off the scrap pile using tongs and stick it in the forge to cool down... Thomas Powers

Spent 3 years down there. Xxxx is such a nice cool place, in comparison.

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A forge is just a hole in the ground raised to a convenient working height.