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07-22-2002, 11:38 PM
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Why forge?
Got any good reason?
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07-23-2002, 01:47 AM
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Because I have to... and because I can...
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07-23-2002, 02:01 AM
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Forging is primitive, backwards and crude.
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07-23-2002, 02:13 AM
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Forging is a good way to ruin a piece of steel.
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07-23-2002, 06:57 AM
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Forging gives you a reason to be creative. Forging gives you the satisfaction that you can create something of real and honest beauty, with a useful purpose.
__________________ Peace Brudda, NT/Lickin' Leech Kemp ABS Journeyman Smith 
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07-23-2002, 07:32 AM
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But of course sex will give you that same feeling..........
__________________ Peace Brudda, NT/Lickin' Leech Kemp ABS Journeyman Smith
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07-23-2002, 08:35 AM
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why forge??
"Everything a boy could want, dirt, fire, noise", words of a friends mother when he gave her a tour of his shop.
__________________ Happy Hammering, wear safety glasses. Gene Chapman Oak and Iron Publishing www.oakandiron.com/
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#8
07-23-2002, 08:55 AM
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Are you saying that forging is more masculine than stock reduction?
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07-23-2002, 11:10 AM
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I'm not trying to make a better knife... I'm trying to make a knife better.
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07-23-2002, 11:33 AM
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No gender intended. In and around Puget Sound (Seattle area) there are many blacksmith and hot metal shops with quite a few female smiths doing excellent work for homes, businesses, and art galleries (sculpture). It's a real hot iron community here in the Pacific NW.
__________________ Happy Hammering, wear safety glasses. Gene Chapman Oak and Iron Publishing www.oakandiron.com/
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07-23-2002, 01:43 PM
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Sweany, that's the first good point I've heard yet! You da man! You can't take a 3 inch piece of 1/2 inch round stock and turn it into a 4 inch piece of 1/8 by 1 inch piece of flat stock, with a belt grinder.
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#13
07-23-2002, 02:06 PM
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Sweany, you might be a little silly and off center at times... but when push comes to shove, you've got it where it counts bro!
Like I said, you and I are not much different.
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07-23-2002, 02:07 PM
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When people ask me why I like blacksmithing (and therefore bladesmithing) my answer is always the same:
"I get to play with fire, I get to hit stuff. It doesn't get much better than that!" Most people seem to get the point. I sometimes continue: "I get to make things which can't be made any other way." If they still don't get it I leave them to their lives of television, television and more television.... Roger
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07-23-2002, 02:29 PM
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Right on dudes!
Amen!!! You're alight, I'm alright... HAMMER ON !!! 
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