You might be a bladesmith if...

You might be a bladesmith if .......
your face and forearms appear to be suntanned in January and you live in in Minnesota.
when you get your hair cut, the barber/stylist never seems to have to cut quite as much off your bangs as the rest of your head.
you can no longer tell the difference between your "shop" and "dress" jeans because the the front thigh area on all of them is grayish black.
you have to sort through your laundry for 20 minutes to find a t-shirt that is presentable enough to wear to 7-11.yyou have to replace your reading glasses every 2 months not because you prescription has changed,but because the lenses look like they have been sanded with 220 grit paper.
you scoff at the chipped edges of family members expensive sets of Henckels kitchen knives and tell them they if the INSIST on use stainless knives, they can get a 1 x 30 belt grinder for cheap at Lowes or Home Depot.
you think that the companies that make, import and distribute Chinese knives and Pakistani damascus are in the same category as child molesters, drug smugglers and members of PETA.
 
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...you go out for a beer after work and people ask what the heck happened to your forehead... and you realize you have a faint line in your skin from wearing a face-mask all day.
 
you might be a smith if you lose something on your shop floor, and instantantly considerer it lost in the bermuda triangle. it will never be found.

You might be a smith if you post a man cave sign above your shop door.

You make knifes for all of your relatives, but they don't cough up the bucks so you sell them and every one's pissed.

And, you ain't a "selling" smith until you have delt with the public.Fun oh Fun!

You may be a smith if you break the handle on your fav. hammer, and replace it, but it's just not the same.

Dave
 
David Stifle said:
you might be a smith if you lose something on your shop floor, and instantantly considerer it lost in the bermuda triangle. it will never be found.

Dave
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You might be a bladesmith if you have a magnet on a telescoping handle, so that you can find what you dropped, because you just can't stand to lose any little bit of scrap steel.

You might be a bladesmith if you have boxes and bins full of little small cut off pieces of steel, brass, wrought iron, handle material, copper, mokume, etc., etc. etc.
 
Scott, I loved the hotdog story.

You might be a bladesmith if you don't think of a belt as something to hold up your pants.

You might be a bladesmith if you think of the BBQs propane tank as your spare.

You might be a bladesmith if watching TV involves having small piece of sand paper handy

You might be a bladesmith if you have a bunch of steel with numbers and letters written on them

You might be a bladesmith if the safety department at work no longer bugs you about wearing your gloves because you can demonstrate the skin on your hands is indeed tanned leather.

You are a bladesmith if you find nothing in this thread strange
 
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You might be a blade smith if you get up in the morning and put your hands on a hot stove in preparation to handle hot steel.
 
Oh...the Bermuda triangle one had me going!:D

You might be a Bladesmith if you have a "spare" anvil or two....just in case.;)

.... If you have a special place in the swamp behind your place that ugly, messed up, forged/ground bad blades go to rust away...

....If when someone asks you what you do the first thing you do is smile.:D
Mace
 
You might be a bladesmith if you have no qualms about diving headfirst into the scrap bin in the workshop for 'that piece of brass i saw there yesterday'
 
Steve Hayden said:
If your left arm is shaved and your right arm is singed....
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Yep!

You might be a bladesmith if you take your propane tanks to get filled, the attendant asks you "How often are you grilling?" and you enjoy the look on his/her face when you answer "I don't".
 
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