Anachronist58 Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Thanks, rockstar.esq. Ironically, I coined that phrase after working a couple of months alongside of several PhD's :o (not a smear of the venerable title per se, just the ones I was jammed in with....) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted February 6, 2014 Author Share Posted February 6, 2014 "Some people hit it and watch where it goes; I know where it's going to go before I hit it." George Ernest, an early California smith: "Make 50 of them; throw 45 away." Peter Ross Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zadvorney Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 If life were easy, everybody would have one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teejay Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 If you smell something stupid burning,let go of it, its hot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogsoldat Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 If it was easy someone else would be doing it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockstar.esq Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 Karl Pilkington from "An Idiot Abroad" once said: "Moths are annoying, If you're going to be blind don't have wings". I think that sort of applies to doubter spectators. Whenever I read a post asking for suggestions on what to make for sale I think of this one; Henry Ford: "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted February 26, 2014 Author Share Posted February 26, 2014 And his patina recipe where one waits for a rooster to lay an egg... thingmaker3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merk Posted February 27, 2014 Share Posted February 27, 2014 "If you make something ugly out of steel, it's going to be ugly for a long time." -Jerry Culberson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CleetisMorgan Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 Now you get that fire hotter than Dutch love---my grandfather Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted March 3, 2014 Author Share Posted March 3, 2014 The number of people who do not need more books I can count on the thumbs of one foot....Thomas Powers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ausfire Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 I don't much enjoy getting burnt, and a safety one I always keep in mind is this one:All that glitters is not gold; all that's black is NOT COLD!(It's not original; I read it somewhere. True though - we tend not to burn ourselves on red hot steel, always the black stuff!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admanfrd Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 DON'T GRIP THE HAMMER, Let the hammer grip you (sarcasm for the day is out there) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LastRonin Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 From my Dad: "If it's worth doing, it's worth doing right." "The right tool for the job." "It's easier to do it right the first time than to redo it to make it right." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CleetisMorgan Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 When it's time to move, that's go time. It's NOT "I don't know" time---my old boss Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted March 4, 2014 Author Share Posted March 4, 2014 Pain is your body's way of telling your brain it did something stupid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Turley Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Hand forging. "First, you finagle it; then you finesse it." Frank Turley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CleetisMorgan Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 You can watch things happen, you can make things happen, or you can wonder what happened. Captain Phil Harris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admanfrd Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 My forge never starts if there are spectators around telling me what to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted March 5, 2014 Author Share Posted March 5, 2014 You can't clear the water up till you've got the pigs out of the creek. Ten Hammers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Some of my teaching sayings: "Hit it where it's hot; not where its not!" "Don't take a piece out of the fire until the anvil is clear and your hammer is to hand" "Don't waste heat!" "Think with your piece in the fire" "Talking while cranking the blower will get you more pieces in the fire than you put there!" "Any hammer in a storm!" (I have my favorite hammers; but when I teach they sometimes wander away from the anvil and so I will grab any hammer so as to not waste a heat---also shows the students that it's not the hammer---its the skill!) "Take your piece out of the forge if you are going to wander off and do something else" And one that was given me when I was learning to do billet welding 30 years ago: "Don't look at it, *HIT* *IT*!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted March 7, 2014 Author Share Posted March 7, 2014 bitumen has been known to well "stick like dog-do to a pick-nick blanket" ianinsa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted March 13, 2014 Author Share Posted March 13, 2014 Cream rises to the top. Unfortunately, so does pond scum. John McPherson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockstar.esq Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most, never use it. - anonymous "Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they're in good company." - Rene Descartes "Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors" - Ernest Hemingway "The problem isn't that there are too many fools in the world... it's that lightning isn't distributed right" - Mark Twain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted March 16, 2014 Author Share Posted March 16, 2014 Spit first,THEN cuss. John McPherson What sells best? Anything that looks good in a double wide and costs $20 or less. Bill Epps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted March 19, 2014 Author Share Posted March 19, 2014 I often offer to hot shoe hecklers! I tell them it's the last set of shoes they'll ever need; cause they wear like iron! If they ask me if it will hurt I tell them "No; I've got industrial hearing protectors *and* earplugs, won't hurt me at all!" Thomas Powers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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