May 25, 201115 yr If you can stack fresh burns one on top of another!Nothing like blistering a blister! You hope for a deeper burn because it wont blister. Your wife/husband/kids/neighbor says, "Hey your pants/shoe/shirt/hair is on fire!" and you respond with "HUH? Oh! How about that."
May 25, 201115 yr you might be addicted if your wife makes you install a doorbell in an unusual fashion, with the chime in the shop and the button on the house so she can summon you with out walking out to the shop... My wife had me install an intercom so she can talk at me, err talk to me, while I am working hot metal, now if only I could get her to understand why I do not always respond immediately...
June 1, 201115 yr If you've ever had to trim your eyelashes cause a woof of flame from the gas forge has singed them into Velcro..........:blink:
June 1, 201115 yr You have to stand on a ladder to work on your power hammer. You need a 4" end wrench to adjust you power hammer. You buy a quick connect for 1-1/2" air line to connect your power hammer.
June 1, 201115 yr if you start on your shop building before finishing the place you will be living in. That's NOT a sign of addiction! We need hinges, after all! And some specialty decorative bits for the foundation! Besides, I'll be living in the smithy. Wife says the new place will be too clean for me to be allowed into. B)
June 1, 201115 yr If you avoid interstate highways to cruise podunk towns for PH's, anvils and the like........and then get a crick in your neck from rubbernecking
June 2, 201115 yr Grant me the serenity to forget the tools I cannot have, The courage to hoard the ones I can, And the wisdom to leave a deposit......................Pax
June 2, 201610 yr 1-you catch on fire and it's no big deal 2-you notice the coal black under your fingernails every time you go to a restaurant 3-you leave power tools out for the taking but lock up hammers and punches at the end of the day 4- you often have pieces of rusty "treasure" in the trunk of your car 5-you know that 0•3•9 = 93lbs 6-you think 1000°f is cold 7-your biggest vice is too many vises 8-you've ever thought of opening a rescue shelter for abused and neglected anvils 9- you know all sorts of highly technical and precise trade terms like, "mellow fire" or " hateful fire", or the difference between "squishing" and "smooshing" 10-you have never watched a single episode of "Forged in Fire" but all your customers tell you about it non-stop :-)
June 2, 201610 yr 1 minute ago, TwistedCustoms said: 4- you often have pieces of rusty "treasure" in the trunk of your car Mines not in the trunk but it is regularly in the bed of my truck and often in the floorboard as well.
June 2, 201610 yr The wife recognizes the gleam of rust in your eye and elbows you. Frosty The Lucky.
June 2, 201610 yr If you find a post that has been dormant since 2 Jun 2011 and bring it back to life 5 years later.
June 2, 201610 yr You know where the "best" scrap yards in town are and they call you by name when you show up.
June 2, 201610 yr Call you by name? Heck they call you by phone! You pay for the pro version of Google Earth and scan satellite pics on the high def big screen for rust stains. Your kids taught themselves to play monopoly. Frosty The Lucky.
June 2, 201610 yr I remember walking into my local scrapyard and seeing their faces light up and think "Oh No, Not Again"; they had saved 6 100 pound dock weights just for me... Never did figure out how dock weights got to the middle of the desert....
June 2, 201610 yr I've also found a very rusty docking cleat way larger than *anything* that could float in NM could use and I can throw a rock across the local lake or local river... Now I have seen anchor chain as well; but I know how it gets used out here: strung between two large bulldozers to clear out trees/brush growing in pasture land.
June 2, 201610 yr 1 hour ago, Charles R. Stevens said: I was wondering where my "weather chain" got off to! Didn't you have windy weather just after the last time you saw it? Frosty The Lucky.
June 2, 201610 yr 19 hours ago, Glenn said: If you find a post that has been dormant since 2 Jun 2011 and bring it back to life 5 years later. Touche'
June 8, 201610 yr Your Know the weight of a hammer/anvil just by looking at it! Littleblacksmith Edited June 8, 201610 yr by littleblacksmith Forgotten wor
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