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Hey, I blacksmith as a hobby, and I know other folks here like to get their craft on. And the craft forum is too wholesome for the hosed up steel objects I’ll be showing off here and I expect to see some truly twisted poo poo from the other crafters. Here’s my newest knife almost done. I almost disemboweled myself when it got stuck in the drill press and spun around and cut my arm and nicked my belly. Then it slammed into the shaft of the press which is why it has a huge chip and roll on the edge. Cheers. After I damaged it like that I’m gonna have to grind it way narrower than I wanted so I’ll probably just leave it hosed up to remind me of how lucky I was my arm was in the way when I lost control. 
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Apr 4, 2023 22:56
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Of the various hobbies I've been wanting to start as soon as I get out of my hosed up job/living situation blacksmithing is one I want to try the most. Don't have anything to show or do at the moment but by June I can actually start doing stuff. That's a cool knife though, I'm jealous
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Apr 4, 2023 23:05
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ended up havin to push my first blacksmithin class back two weeks because the second one would conflict with easter but i talked to the guy and i'm fuckin stoked, it seems like its gonna kick rear end. lookin forward to getting wrestling moves done on me by power tools too
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Apr 4, 2023 23:27
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Fungah! posted:ended up havin to push my first blacksmithin class back two weeks because the second one would conflict with easter but i talked to the guy and i'm fuckin stoked, it seems like its gonna kick rear end. lookin forward to getting wrestling moves done on me by power tools too Don’t pick up anything metal with your bare hands in the shop dude. Steel can be 1000 degrees before you see it’s hot. Trust me lmfao. My fingers are hosed.
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Apr 4, 2023 23:52
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Wormskull posted:Don’t pick up anything metal with your bare hands in the shop dude. Steel can be 1000 degrees before you see it’s hot. Trust me lmfao. My fingers are hosed. holy poo poo, yeah not doin that any time soon. gloves on 100%
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Apr 4, 2023 23:54
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Wormskull posted:Don’t pick up anything metal with your bare hands in the shop dude. Steel can be 1000 degrees before you see it’s hot. Trust me lmfao. My fingers are hosed. lmao
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Apr 5, 2023 00:17
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wormskull giving me a crazy looking thumbs up with his Johnny Tremain hand as i head off to my first blacksmithing class. and feeling a chill run down my spine
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Apr 5, 2023 00:46
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HolePisser1982 posted:wormskull giving me a crazy looking thumbs up with his Johnny Tremain hand as i head off to my first blacksmithing class. and feeling a chill run down my spine Lmao
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Apr 5, 2023 00:47
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HolePisser1982 posted:wormskull giving me a crazy looking thumbs up with his Johnny Tremain hand as i head off to my first blacksmithing class. and feeling a chill run down my spine Lol
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Apr 5, 2023 00:52
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HolePisser1982 posted:wormskull giving me a crazy looking thumbs up with his Johnny Tremain hand as i head off to my first blacksmithing class. and feeling a chill run down my spine
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Apr 5, 2023 00:53
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HolePisser1982 posted:wormskull giving me a crazy looking thumbs up with his Johnny Tremain hand as i head off to my first blacksmithing class. and feeling a chill run down my spine lmao
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Apr 5, 2023 01:07
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HolePisser1982 posted:wormskull giving me a crazy looking thumbs up with his Johnny Tremain hand as i head off to my first blacksmithing class. and feeling a chill run down my spine Lmao
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Apr 5, 2023 01:13
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Also I just finished heat treating my cutoff hardy but I don’t feel like taking a picture until I weld a little bit more steel on it and grind it pretty. Also I envy you guys that are gonna get to make your first tongs probably. It’s so frickin awesome lol, when that poo poo works right you feel like a Greek god harnessing nature, upgrading your hands to be able to hold fire and poo poo lmao. It’s sick. Tongs ftw.
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Apr 5, 2023 01:15
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Specially if they make you use a coal forge. So hype.
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Apr 5, 2023 01:16
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But for real that seems like a healthy hobby to take up in your free time. I imagine it being equally cathartic and challenging. 🖕🏿
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Apr 5, 2023 01:18
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Daikatana Ritsu posted:But for real that seems like a healthy hobby to take up in your free time. I imagine it being equally cathartic and challenging. 🖕🏿 I lost 50 pounds in the year since I started doing it.
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Apr 5, 2023 01:30
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blacksmithing is insanely cool. I’m not creative enough. I used to weld a bit as needed (family farm) and helped fab some ridiculous banshee quads at a neighbor’s machine shop but the I guess the coolest thing I made on my own was a cube lol (MIG is cheating): also lol plasma cutters are loving sick:  (the bird poo poo is absolutely not mine lol)
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Apr 5, 2023 01:37
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right arm posted:blacksmithing is insanely cool. I’m not creative enough. I used to weld a bit as needed (family farm) and helped fab some ridiculous banshee quads at a neighbor’s machine shop but the I guess the coolest thing I made on my own was a cube lol (MIG is cheating): I have a oxy torch and a tiny Tig? I think welder I gotta learn to use, also you poo poo bird poo poo out of your human rear end lol and it is yours and it's God damned nasty.
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Apr 5, 2023 01:40
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And I like that cube. If I had a real steel anvil I might go with that japanese style cube one. Cubes are hype.
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Apr 5, 2023 01:41
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Wormskull posted:I have a oxy torch and a tiny Tig? I think welder I gotta learn to use, also you poo poo bird poo poo out of your human rear end lol and it is yours and it's God damned nasty. hell yeah oxy is so much fun. haven’t brazed in ages but used to fusion weld stuff all the time at my dad’s I suck at TIG and definitely need to practice. that stuff definitely looks like bird poo poo lol gotten soft driving around and looking at people’s animals all day 
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Apr 5, 2023 01:45
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HolePisser1982 posted:wormskull giving me a crazy looking thumbs up with his Johnny Tremain hand as i head off to my first blacksmithing class. and feeling a chill run down my spine lmfao
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Apr 5, 2023 02:18
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HolePisser1982 posted:wormskull giving me a crazy looking thumbs up with his Johnny Tremain hand as i head off to my first blacksmithing class. and feeling a chill run down my spine lmao
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Apr 5, 2023 02:23
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HolePisser1982 posted:wormskull giving me a crazy looking thumbs up with his Johnny Tremain hand as i head off to my first blacksmithing class. and feeling a chill run down my spine lmfao
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Apr 5, 2023 02:26
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HolePisser1982 posted:wormskull giving me a crazy looking thumbs up with his Johnny Tremain hand as i head off to my first blacksmithing class. and feeling a chill run down my spine lmfao
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Apr 5, 2023 10:49
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i just write music, the thinking mans crafting if you will
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Apr 5, 2023 10:50
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Edge of the Anvil, The Home Blacksmith, and The Complete Bladesmith are books I bought that are cool. 2 of them are like 40-50 years old so I’d get one more recent one to see if we learned anything. Some Naked and Afraid contestant named Laura Zerra wrote a bladesmithing book that is pretty cool. Pretty much every book I’ve seen on the subject of smithing contains some ingenious tip the writer learned from an ancient blacksmith in Europe or Polynesia or whatever lol so I’d at least DL and Have A Look at a couple others. The Modern Blacksmith is another good old one by a guy who is also a wood carver and makes his own tools.
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Apr 5, 2023 14:46
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 Love to joke with the boys that I’m doing this with my weiner.
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Apr 5, 2023 14:47
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thats so badass lol
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Apr 5, 2023 15:47
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trying to jack off posted:i just write music, the thinking mans crafting if you will May we hear it?
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Apr 5, 2023 17:22
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Pungry posted:May we hear it? he's trying to, jack off
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Apr 5, 2023 17:24
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Wormskull posted:
Lol
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Apr 5, 2023 17:29
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Wormskull posted:Don’t pick up anything metal with your bare hands in the shop dude. Steel can be 1000 degrees before you see it’s hot. Trust me lmfao. My fingers are hosed. Lol I did that in high school metal shop, one of the guys made a pencil cup and set it on a table after using the mig, picked it up to look and did a full on Goofy yell before sprinting to the sink. Still got little scars so yeah don't touch metal in the metal shop!!
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Apr 5, 2023 18:02
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DaysBefore posted:Lol I did that in high school metal shop, one of the guys made a pencil cup and set it on a table after using the mig, picked it up to look and did a full on Goofy yell before sprinting to the sink. Still got little scars so yeah don't touch metal in the metal shop!! I tried to grab a falling piece of rebar that was bright orange and it like instantly blanched and numbers my fingers and felt kinda like butter sliding through my hand.
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Apr 5, 2023 18:11
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Wormskull posted:I tried to grab a falling piece of rebar that was bright orange and it like instantly blanched and numbers my fingers and felt kinda like butter sliding through my hand. god drat dude
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Apr 5, 2023 18:12
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Goofy yell followed by dunking your hands in the slack tub and river dancing is scientifically proven to help with forge burns.
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Apr 5, 2023 18:21
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Wormskull posted:I tried to grab a falling piece of rebar that was bright orange and it like instantly blanched and numbers my fingers and felt kinda like butter sliding through my hand. loving hell
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Apr 5, 2023 18:35
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HolePisser1982 posted:wormskull giving me a crazy looking thumbs up with his Johnny Tremain hand as i head off to my first blacksmithing class. and feeling a chill run down my spine
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Apr 5, 2023 19:04
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Wormskull posted:Goofy yell followed by dunking your hands in the slack tub and river dancing is scientifically proven to help with forge burns. Lol
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Wormskull posted:I tried to grab a falling piece of rebar that was bright orange and it like instantly blanched and numbers my fingers and felt kinda like butter sliding through my hand. Fungah! posted:holy poo poo, yeah not doin that any time soon. gloves on 100% lol i keep thinking of this and lolling 
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