mcostello Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Hit it with Your purse seems approprate now and then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted January 23, 2015 Author Share Posted January 23, 2015 You've just got to "kiss the frogs" ... and see what happens. SmoothBore Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt_K Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 It wasn't blacksmithing related when a friend of mine used to say it, but it seems apropos: Hit it again! It's still moving! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted January 29, 2015 Author Share Posted January 29, 2015 Wisdom is the ability to learn from someone else's mistakes, WITHOUT having to make them yourself... SJS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Turley Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 "Mediocre artists borrow; great artists steal." Saying attributed to Pablo Picasso, but probably not truly Picasso's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted April 2, 2015 Author Share Posted April 2, 2015 Knowledge is not free it is earned. Turbo7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petere76 Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Marine machine tool instructor to new midshipman cadets, "Gentlemen, be careful in what you do because....nothing hurts worse than pain." From Master Sargent Robert Darnell. USMC air craft machinest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arkie Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 My son once said..."I know everything, I just can't remember it all at once..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turbo7 Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 "We dont serve coal up with a teaspoon" Charles R. Stevens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted April 22, 2015 Author Share Posted April 22, 2015 If the ground wants to look at your piece of hot metal, it is extremely rude to get in it's way! Thomas PowersHot steel always has right of way. Turbo7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 You WILL yield to superior inertia.Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quarry Dog Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 "It is easier to ask forgiveness, than permission." Rear Admiral Grace Hopper (USN)"You only have one chance to overdo something. After that you're just fixing it." -My Dad as told to him by my Grandpa"You CAN fix stupid if you break things down 'Barney Style'. You CAN turn clumsiness into perfection through perfect practice and perfect repetition. You CAN NOT fix willful ignorance or sheer laziness." -One of my old Marine Staff NCOsYada, Yada, "Black, Hot, Hard, Heavy, Sharp, AND/OR Dangerous" etc., etc. -Most likely every person to ever teach blacksmithing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Coke Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 An old anvil is just a chunk of iron and steel that takes up space unless it rings with createtivety and inspiration.. Honor its history . MAKE SOMETHING BEAUTIFULJim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanderer50 Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 I read it somewhere on this site " If you can't fix it with a bigger hammer then it must be an electrical problem. " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted April 28, 2015 Author Share Posted April 28, 2015 Nobody Specialto misquote a blues song, i love silver, and i love tin....but the way i love iron, ya know it's a sinmessing with an acetylene tank is a good way to retroactively cancel your birth certificate! Thomas PowersBuy a shirt before you go into business for yourself.At some point you will loose the one you have.Junk is something you've kept for years and throw away three weeks before you need it.You must start somewhere. After that you modify, change, build, rebuild, etc as you learn what works, and what works better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Turley Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 "If you lose the necessary mass, you got nothin'!"Credit for this goes to Rolando Deleon, deceased, former blacksmith of Santa Fe, NM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 "Electrons have mass? I didn't know they were Catholic," Barbara Frost, my Mother.Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted July 11, 2015 Author Share Posted July 11, 2015 "We have upped our quality, Now up yours!" Grant Sarver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Ivan Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 A friend was over at the shop today. He leaned against the anvil and said he was thinking about calling it a day. I asked if the anvil was burning his rump at all and he replied "no". So I said "Then get back to work. If you can lean on that anvil without burning yourself, You haven't worked hard enough today". He laughed, I scowled and we got another 4 hours out of the day. Nice day too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 Yep, only sat on my anvil once... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gote Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 Junk is something you've kept for years and throw away three weeks before you need it.I beg to disagree! Not weeks - days Göte Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Special Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 Did I say that? I must have been partaking in the stuff I was misquoting about...Which brings us to a classic shop rule, if a little inelegant. No forging or power tools when drunk. When well and truly drunk, no fire. Bad puppy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Roy Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 When you are doing a demonstration at the fair, nearly everyone watching you has a grandfather who was a real blacksmith. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 And some of them are right! Ask about their tools! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 And some of them are right! Ask about their tools!Exactly! "Do you have any of his tools?" Is my stock answer to the old, "My Grandfather was a blacksmith," statement.Some can be pretty obnoxious telling me how someone else does IT. I've never had a taker when I offered them the hammer. A spectator has to be pretty obnoxious for me to do that though.My Great Grand Uncle Bert Hickson was a Railroad and lumber mill millwright. I must be doing something wrong I don't feel qualified for either in any way. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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