May 11, 20206 yr Author It is not about what you have to work with, but how you work with what you have.
May 11, 20206 yr Get it HOT and Hit it, and learn from there. Different degrees of Hot, and different amounts of Hit, it's in there somewhere, you just have to find it. ~ John B
May 11, 20206 yr It is not about what you have to work with, but how you work with what you have. ~ Glenn
May 12, 20206 yr “Little corrections, always little corrections. With the little corrections, we avoid the big corrections.” Alexander Weygers ~ via JHCC
May 14, 20206 yr Author Do not tell us what you can not do (the list is too long), tell us what you CAN do using what you have to work with.
May 14, 20206 yr "Whether you think that you can, or whether you think that you can not, you are right." H. Ford. Frosty The Lucky.
June 5, 20206 yr Author "Don't ever tear a fence down until you know the reason it was put up." G.K. Chesterton
June 18, 20206 yr To start, you have to start a project. To finish the project, you have to finish it. ~ swedefiddle
June 18, 20206 yr As I said in a discussion elsewhere to someone considering using a chisel that had cracked in the hardening: IF IT CRACK, YOU NO WHACK!
June 19, 20206 yr I saw this on the wall of Francis Whittaker's shop in Carbondale, CO. Joshua ben Sirah ca. 180 BC Book of Sirach aka Ecclesiasticus Cave 2 Qumran Dead Sea Scroll So to is the smith sitting by the anvil, intent upon his handiwork in ironl the breath of his fire melts his flesh, and he wastes away in the heat of the furnace; he inclines his ear to the sound of the hammer, and his eyes are on the pattern of the object. He sets his heart on finishing his handiwork, and he is careful to complete its decoration. So to is the potter sitting at his work and turning the wheel with his feet; he is always deeply concerned over his work, and all his output is by number. He molds the cay with his arm and makes it piable with his feet; he sets his heart to vinish the glazing, and he is careful to clean the furnace. All these rely upon their hands, and each is skillful in his own work. Without them a city cannot be established, and man can neither sojourn nor live there. Yet they are not sought out for the council of the people, not do they attain eminence in the public assembly. They do not sit in the judge's seat, nor do they understand the sentence of judgement; they cannot expound discipline or judgement, and they are not found using proverbs. But they keep stable the fabric of the world, and their prayer is in the practice of their trade.
June 21, 20206 yr Thank you for that George, I think I'll print it out so I don't forget why I do things or feel like sloughing off on something. Frosty The Lucky.
June 27, 20206 yr Thinking in milling the face of an old anvil, is like wanting to "restore" an old painting with a rag soaked in turpentine. ~ Marc1
July 21, 20206 yr Author My wife says killing or trapping anything with more legs than a dog is one of my duties. Irondragon ForgeClay Works
July 27, 20205 yr I don't recall if I may have posted this before but, if not, here it is. This is a good sign for above the forge. “Reverente vidite mortales, herorem laborare.” -Look on in awe mortals, a demi-god is at work.” (Latin)
July 27, 20205 yr That's some pretty horrible dog-Latin. Points for proper use of the second person plural imperative and the vocative plural, but both verbs are misspelled, the adverb is completely wrong, and the second clause translates to "the things of the heroes to work". I'd suggest "Videte cum reverentia, O mortales; heros laboret." Might not be perfect, but it's better.
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