Lady smiths !

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mete

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I happened across an old movie "The Harvey Girls" just in time to see a blacksmithing scene. A woman ,in a very nice dress was singing as she hammered on a hot horseshoe !! Anyone else sing while they hammer [with or without dress ] ??
 
Oh, you're going to pull us all out of the woodwork with a title like 'Lady Smiths'. We aren't so few and far between;)

In answer to your questions I sing now and then when I forge but it's kinda like singing in the shower, get's drowned out by the noise of the rigged up air system. Believe it or not I quite often fire up the coals in a floor grazing skirt, often enough that my family calls it my 'forging skirt'. Being addicted to hammering on hot steel doesn't necessarily mean that you abandon your feminine side (at least I hope not) :)

I'll have to rent that movie now, sounds like a winner...
 
Heck, I learned how to forge while wearing a kilt. People wear all sorts of stuff while smithing. Those old movies typically got blacksmithing scenes more 'right' than anything modern, because back then it wasn't so unheard of to still have the local smith you went to to get things fixed or made, and industry was still largely manual processes even in assembly lines, so the movies had to do it 'right' or they'd be laughed at. I can tell you a modern film typically wont have any actress handling hot steel of any sort. Hell look at the "blade forging" scenes in movies like rambo and 'the hunted' and 'conan' for how cheesy they make them now
 
Haley Bell said:
Oh, you're going to pull us all out of the woodwork with a title like 'Lady Smiths'. We aren't so few and far between;)

In answer to your questions I sing now and then when I forge but it's kinda like singing in the shower, get's drowned out by the noise of the rigged up air system. Believe it or not I quite often fire up the coals in a floor grazing skirt, often enough that my family calls it my 'forging skirt'. Being addicted to hammering on hot steel doesn't necessarily mean that you abandon your feminine side (at least I hope not) :)

I'll have to rent that movie now, sounds like a winner...
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You might want to post some pics of that for the guys like BBBBBB Beaver and IG!!! :D:D:D:D:D:jerkit::jerkit:
 
I have posted photos before of me forging in a kilt. I'll be doing it this July in Surry, VA.
As for singing, I usually have the radio set to an oldies station, and occasionally sing along.
Stacy
 
No Dresses here,But I do sing along with the radio as I forge,Keeps a good rythum going as you swing the hammer...

Bruce
 
J.McDonald Knives said:
You might want to post some pics of that for the guys like BBBBBB Beaver and IG!!! :D:D:D:D:D:jerkit::jerkit:
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Not sure if I should dignify that with a response, but just in case you hadn't noticed, this is bladeforum not myspace. Go hammer out a blade or something usefull.:p
 
Haley Bell said:
Not sure if I should dignify that with a response, but just in case you hadn't noticed, this is bladeforum not myspace. Go hammer out a blade or something usefull.:p
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JR. doing something usefull???? :confused::confused:I can tell you haven't been hanging around here long. ;) HEHEHEHEHEHE!!!!
 
You numb nuts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :foot:
If you'd have asked in a gentlemanly manner I'm sure Miss Haley would have graced this forum with a photograph of herself at the forge!!! :p
Please forgive their ignorance Miss Haley, they have no idea how to treat a lady!!! :o
 
No way to act around a lady, guys.
In their defense - Jacob has a lack of experience, and IG.....well he's IG.

Haley, If they want to see a photo of you, they should look at the one of you on the Timber Cat. Now fellows, that's some gal.
Stacy
 
bladsmth said:
No way to act around a lady, guys.
In their defense - Jacob has a lack of experience, and IG.....well he's IG.

Haley, If they want to see a photo of you, they should look at the one of you on the Timber Cat. Now fellows, that's some gal.
Stacy
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Hey!!! It's to later in life to change now.:eek: Once Scooter Trash, always Scooter Trash. HEHEHEHEHEHEHE!!!;)
 
I'll get pics of my 9yo "helping" at the anvil. She has a 1# ball pein and a tack hammer, she'll usually swing the 1# a couple of times then switch off. She'll hit it a few times then tell me to take over.

I usually listen to a local ska/reggae band, Bullet Proof Marshmallows, when I work in the shop. I've been fans of theirs since they played their first gig in a bar at the age of 16, that was 8 years ago and they still kick A@#. The managers at my favorite watering hole, Head on the Door, booked them so everyone could make fun of them but by the second or third song we realized they really tore it up. It's that kind of place, the regulars and employees play a lot of jokes on each other. Last weekend we gave the doorman's cell phone number to the staff at the bar next door so they could pass it out and have people call and ask for Seabass and the bartenders wrote his number up on the dry erase board behind the bar. It was great, every time he answered the phone the bar went wild. He threw a garbage can at me when he found out it was me.

Sorry to hijack the thread, I just got off work and am a bit groggy. Gotta head back to work in 7 hours lol
 
bladsmth said:
No way to act around a lady, guys.
In their defense - Jacob has a lack of experience, and IG.....well he's IG.

Haley, If they want to see a photo of you, they should look at the one of you on the Timber Cat. Now fellows, that's some gal.
Stacy
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Nothin sexier than an attractive lady who knows how to use power equipment except a beautiful lady who knows how to create with fire and a hammer.

The Celtic deity of the forge was a lady.

-Page
 
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