josiah 0 Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 I am an absolute newbie and am unskilled but smithing already causes me to "space in" it is one of the few times that i can actually relax and not have all kinds of other things going on in my head. maybe in a few years I will gain enough skill to enter the hallowed halls of the fiery beards but alas I do not smoke and cant stand alcohol. either way I cant get enough of the metal work. Link to post Share on other sites
Luke Shearer 15 Posted October 10, 2010 Share Posted October 10, 2010 the 'beards' has always been a funny one to me, sometimes when im engrosed in a piece ive had enough of a flicker to realise what it might mean, then Ive have a smile at the thought that if it really lights in the future, and I can properly slip into the place where the hands produce what the mind sees, when you finish a piece and look down with the slight confusion that you made it, and your not really sure how, that it may be alight proper. Not just pixels on a screen. I just etched a small PW seaxy knife. I am in awe that I could have produced such a beautiful object. I begin to understand... “Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.” Link to post Share on other sites
Gregory Lirot 1 Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 who ever makes high layer 'mascus by hand deserves and award. 15n20 is rather tough stuff to move. It forges like 5160, only slower (at least for me). "I have surprised myself with what I can make with simple tools when a definite need arose. I don't think a man knows what he actually can do until he is challenged."- Dick Proennke Link to post Share on other sites
James Spurgeon 23 Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 Don't make the seax into sheeps I can't believe you posted that!!! No fair beating me too it just because I wasn't here to post it first! James Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave. ~Mark Twain SageBrush BladeWorks (New website is in limbo...) Link to post Share on other sites
Luke Shearer 15 Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 Don't make the seax into sheeps I laughed so hard “Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.” Link to post Share on other sites
davidmw 0 Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 What if chuck norriss signs up, would he get a fiery beard? Link to post Share on other sites
Alan Longmire 3,773 Posted July 13, 2013 Author Share Posted July 13, 2013 Only if he liked to forge pattern-welded seaxes and swords with the proper mindset. Of course he'd do it with his bare hands. Link to post Share on other sites
Matt Todd 2 Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Ohhhh, so that's what the fiery beard thing is all about. I really didn't think anything of it until one of the new members took down their profile pic with a fiery beard and explained why. So I was curious, and went looking into the whole fiery beard thing. As someone who is used to avatars in the twitterverse, I thought nothing of it. But, I guess a picture is worth a thousand words. I think I have a ways to go to be considered a fiery beard (even though I have a nice one) I have only burned the hair off my arms, and one eyebrow. But, its only a flesh wound. I will say though that I have a fiery heart, and it burns to create works of art made from steel, and other stuffs. I am quite obsessed with bladesmithing, I think about it from the time I awake and the time I go to bed. I don't expect a fiery beard at this time, but if I do not get one in 5 years I shall say NIH! If I don't receive one in 10 years I shall bring out the holy hand grenade! Link to post Share on other sites
Brian Myers 134 Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Yep! I thought it was just some guys having fun til I was informed of the requirements for entering this SWO (smithing world order). That's why I changed my avatar. Perrin A'Byara...one of my favorite characters from the Wheel of Time books. He is a master Smith that doesn't see himself as anything but a simple apprentice who wants to return to his simple life. Link to post Share on other sites
dragoncutlery 88 Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 some one get dee a set of flaming eye brows already Brandon Sawisch bladesmith eagles may soar but weasels don't get sucked in to jet engines Link to post Share on other sites
Feral 0 Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 (edited) So, I'm really into pre-christian European mythologies, I wore a Mjolnir pendant in Afghanistan when I was in the army, I've cast a bronze sword, and right now I'm working on a bearded axe, a monosteel seax, and two monosteel versions of the aforementioned bronze sword. Can I get some fiery hair instead of a beard? Yanno, seeings how I'm a girl and all... Edited March 17, 2014 by Feral You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire. Link to post Share on other sites
Alan Longmire 3,773 Posted March 17, 2014 Author Share Posted March 17, 2014 Work on that pattern-welding and you'll get there. Is the grip on that bronze sword hollow like it should be? Always wanted to make one of those... Link to post Share on other sites
Feral 0 Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Work on that pattern-welding and you'll get there. Is the grip on that bronze sword hollow like it should be? Always wanted to make one of those... I actually cast it as a single solid piece as that's how the original i based it on was cast. It's a slightly scaled-up version of the Segerstad sword in Vastergotland Sweden (about 3300 years old). You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire. Link to post Share on other sites
J. Helmes 1 Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 Beautiful sword! http://www.jeffhelmes.com Link to post Share on other sites
Patrick Brown 3 Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 That is a really cool looking sword Feral. Could we possibly get a few more pictures of it? Link to post Share on other sites
Dave Stephens 489 Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 Remember . . . -----------------------------------------------"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly." -- Theodore Roosevelthttp://stephensforge.com Link to post Share on other sites
Miles Hebbard 2 Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 Nice one Dave! I had to keep mine trimed so as not to get in to the soup pot while stirring it! Then I got a gas range, and damn near set myself alight... Gave up on the ZZ top look and keep it less than 6 inches now! At one stage it reached my belly button, and was hell to keep it out of trouble! To become old and wise... You first have to survive being young and foolish! Ikisu.blogsot.com. Email; milesikisu@gmail.com mobile: +27784653651 Link to post Share on other sites
S. Cruse 10 Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 Only if he liked to forge pattern-welded seaxes and swords with the proper mindset. Of course he'd do it with his bare hands. and without a forge, similar to squeezing a charcoal birckiette into a diamond. Of the four elements, air, earth, water, and fire man stole only one from the gods. Fire. And with it, man forged his will upon the world. Link to post Share on other sites
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