You might be a bladesmith if...

...if when your nephew in law shows you his brand new handmade knife that your brother brought back for him from France, you can point at least 12 things wrong with it.

Patrice
 
You might be a bladesmith, if:
  • you don't want to stop forging to go in and eat and instead ask the wife to bring a hot dog out on a fork, so you can cook it at the opening of your forge during reheats...
  • when you put the partially cooked hot dog on top of the forge to free up your hands to work the metal...
  • the dirt and grit from the top of the forge doesn't bother you...
  • when the hotdog catches fire because you paid more attention to the knife your working on than the hotdog
  • you eat it anyhow!
 
you might be a bladesmith if you stop at every deer carcass on the side of the road to see if taking the rack is worth hassling with the smell.
 
You might be a machinist if:

Your rug is glittery from tracked in chips

You have ever made a screw or fitting because it was faster than just going to the store

When you say "tenths" you're talking about .0001 not .01

When you're working on something and need to write down a measurement, it is in decimal inches

You know there are over 100 drill bits under 1/2"

If you can identify a cutting fluid by the smell





Sorry, just had to...
 
You might be a bladesmith, if:
...you wash your hands with steel wool
...the waitress/waiter says"watch the top plate its hot",and you just roll your eyes:rolleyes:
 
after a storm you see a guy cutting up an oak tree that clearly has beautiful figure and you ask him if you can take a few of the bg pieces. He says sure, i dont have to deal with it that way. You load it and have beautiful scales by the next night
 
Kevin R. Cashen said:
You might be a bladesmith if you are one of the few human beings still on Earth that can actually say "Do you smell mammoth? I smell mammoth." Only to find out that sure enough there are mammoth scales on a table in that room.
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THAT one is my favourite.:D
 
You eyeball wooden bookcases, shelving, and desks put out for a yard sale to see if it would be worthwhile to get some nice handle material out of them.
 
...your idea of "dressing up" is wearing jeans and t-shirt that isn't blown full of holes.
 
you might be a bladesmith if you and bunch of wacko friends can assemble a super hot welding forge in under an hour from the scrap pile in the corner of the shop and an old shop vac
 
One of my hunting group was a machinist.He always volunteered to wash the dishes. At the end of the week his hands were finally clean ,free from the imbedded grime.Then it was back to work and back to dirty hands.
Why I left home .When I finished college I had to leave home because the deed of my parents home in Brooklyn prohibited raising pigs or chickens or operating a blacksmith shop !!
 
... if your children know the difference between 5160 and 1095.
I don't have kids myself, but I heard it somewhere and had to repeat it.
 
Nice one Spangles!!!:D

You might be a bladesmith if your buddy Aldo calls you up all excited about a pile of rust he just found....and you get just as excited!
Mace
 
For every one knife you finish you buy five knives worth of handle material. :D

Erin
 
You might be a bladesmith if you stop what you are doing when a smoker walks by and can't fathom why someone would voluntarily do something so harmful to their lungs and you shrug it off throw the switch on the grinder and continue to grind that new piece of stabilized burl you just got....with no respirator
 
You might be a bladesmith if you spent over twice as much on your power hammer than you spent on your car.
 
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