You might be a bladesmith if...

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Bailey Knives

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Following up on a suggestion in this thread http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=657675 where Mr. Salvati made his own set of lawnmower blades, I thought I would start this thread.

You might be a bladesmith if you smile when a cutco rep comes to your house because you know all of your knives will cut circles around a cutco knife.
(this happened to me and you should have seen the look on the guys face when my knife did the same stuff with less effort.)
 
I had the same fun with the cutco guy :)

You might be a knife maker if your kitchen knives will shave arm hair.
You might be a knife maker if every time you see a knarly tree, you think, "I'd like to cut that up."
 
You might be a bladesmith if you think running the forge on a 90 degree day is fun.
 
You may be a bladesmith if you have to move barstock & handle blocks to make supper.

You may be a bladesmith if your handle wood pile is bigger than your firewood pile.

You may be a bladesmith if you go to a barbacue and re-heattreat the chef's knife.

You may be a bladesmith if none of the cars in the yard have springs left in them.


:D:D
 
You might be a bladesmith if you tell your wife she has to wait to start dinner until the knives in the kitchen oven are done tempering.

--nathan
 
You might be a bladesmith if all youre pants have little holes in them from the knees down. (if your not a bladesmith...this is from flux splatter);)
Mace
 
You might be a bladesmith if your wife smacks you at restaurants for covertly stropping the steak knives on your jeans.
 
... Your phlegm is black.

... The muscle between your thumb and pointer finger is unusually big (if you forge, that is)

... You wonder how that tiny, hot curl of steel made it past your safety glasses, face shield or goggles ... again!

... You might launch an hour-long dissertation on space lattice, dendrite colonies and retained austenite if some poor soul shows any interest at all in the details of knifemaking.

... You think you're ahead after you spend $500 and take a full month designing and building some tool you should have just bought for $1200 to begin with.

... You DON'T calculate your earnings by the hour.



I could go on ...:D
 
You spend a full day hand-sanding to make a knife look nice and pretty... and your lady reminds you gently that you haven't showered in 2 days and reek of steel...
 
You might be a bladesmith if you're certain that butterknife performance could be increased significantly with differential heat treatment, or if your wife can now spot 'Scagel influence'.
-Mark
 
Mace said:
You might be a bladesmith if all youre pants have little holes in them from the knees down. (if your not a bladesmith...this is from flux splatter);)
Mace
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Or if you have holes in your all of your pants pants, most of your shirts, small minor burns on your face, arms, and hands; flux melted into to your safety goggles, and you find chunks of flux in your hair when you shower. :p :)

You might be a bladesmith if you think your pants are "clean" until the top half is mostly black. (grease and iron oxide)

You might be a bladesmith if you get a third degree burn, swear, then keep working.

You might be a bladesmith if you make welding gloves smoke from the radiant heat off a billet.
 
You might be a bladesmith if you are excited when you see a rusty anvil in a scrapyard...
 
You might be a bladesmith if all the hair on your arm is burnt off from lighting the forge a second too late:rolleyes:--Butch
 
I am not a bladesmith,
but every one of these posts got at least a chuckle out of me. :D
 
you might be a bladesmith if you have little burn blisters all over your arms

you might be a bladesmith if when you look at a large chunk of steel you see a knife not the chunk steel.

you might be a bladesmith if you buy your steel in huge rounds because its cheeper.

you might be a bladesmith if you draw pictures of knives in church :rolleyes::foot:.

you might be a bladesmith when you dont have to use oven mits to take things out of the oven.

you might be a bladesmith if when i cop talks to you he tells you not to put your hands in your pocket and stay in frount of him (ya had that one happen to me)

you might be a bladesmith if you ask the wife if its ok to put your blade in with the food thats cooking in the oven.

you might be a bladesmith if you think any hammer under 3 pounds is for wimps.
 
You might be a blade smith if every piece of hardenable steel you see looks like a knife.

Bob
 
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