[clears throat] I'm glad you finally got to go, like, experience what the WCB all is and, like, the whole entire environment.
I, [sighs] I gotta tell you, I, you know, er, since, since I started becoming friends with you and Ben especially, I've known Ben for quite a while, and watching you guys, just, I think a lot of it had to do with the fact that I watched f- just the way farriers swang- swing their hammers.
I actually, probably in the beginning of Knife Talk, I ended up, I ended up i- interv- uh, getting questions, p- uh, who uses what hammers, what type of hammers.
And I got a lot of really interesting, uh, hammer choices by different blacksmiths from all over the place.
And I was really interested in this kind of l- idea of the light h- a lighter hammer, longer handle, smaller head, as opposed to these, you know, guys who think that you just gotta swing a five-pound hammer like a m- maniac-
And I, and I really kind of f- I've really just kind of started to look more about what farriers are doing because most farrier hammers are on the smaller side, have a longer handle, and the swing is totally different.
So ever since I started kind of seeing what you guys are doing, I've been fascinated, you know?
But you ha- like, you're just swinging a hammer so much throughout a day as a horseshoer that you c- you have to have an efficient setup, or it's just not gonna work out.
So that's where it's like when guys start throwing that stuff out there of like, "Oh, you need this size of a hammer, and you need this anvil height," it's like, I mean, I think horseshoers have that pretty figured out [laughs] of where to be pretty efficient to last all day.
I talked to, I was, I did a, I kind of summed up this, this story with Mareko, and I was con- I was waiting for n- for bladesmiths to get mad at me 'cause I was ready to...
When I left the WBC, I was just, I s- I was saying to all the, you know, farriers I was talking to, I was just like, "You know, I've been doing this for 20-some odd years.
the idea of the farrier who forges, I think is the greatest, most efficient technician in all of forging.
And I was waiting for the knifemakers to get mad and really upset because, but at the same time, it's just like, you watch these motherfuckers.
I mean, you watch, [laughs] you watch you guys work, and it's just like if you didn't understand forging at all, these guys, you guys all have it down.
[clears throat] I'm glad you finally got to go, like, experience what the WCB all is and, like, the whole entire environment.
I, [sighs] I gotta tell you, I, you know, er, since, since I started becoming friends with you and Ben especially, I've known Ben for quite a while, and watching you guys, just, I think a lot of it had to do with the fact that I watched f- just the way farriers swang- swing their hammers.
I actually, probably in the beginning of Knife Talk, I ended up, I ended up i- interv- uh, getting questions, p- uh, who uses what hammers, what type of hammers.
And I got a lot of really interesting, uh, hammer choices by different blacksmiths from all over the place.
And I was really interested in this kind of l- idea of the light h- a lighter hammer, longer handle, smaller head, as opposed to these, you know, guys who think that you just gotta swing a five-pound hammer like a m- maniac-
And I, and I really kind of f- I've really just kind of started to look more about what farriers are doing because most farrier hammers are on the smaller side, have a longer handle, and the swing is totally different.
So ever since I started kind of seeing what you guys are doing, I've been fascinated, you know?
But you ha- like, you're just swinging a hammer so much throughout a day as a horseshoer that you c- you have to have an efficient setup, or it's just not gonna work out.
So that's where it's like when guys start throwing that stuff out there of like, "Oh, you need this size of a hammer, and you need this anvil height," it's like, I mean, I think horseshoers have that pretty figured out [laughs] of where to be pretty efficient to last all day.
I talked to, I was, I did a, I kind of summed up this, this story with Mareko, and I was con- I was waiting for n- for bladesmiths to get mad at me 'cause I was ready to...
When I left the WBC, I was just, I s- I was saying to all the, you know, farriers I was talking to, I was just like, "You know, I've been doing this for 20-some odd years.
the idea of the farrier who forges, I think is the greatest, most efficient technician in all of forging.
And I was waiting for the knifemakers to get mad and really upset because, but at the same time, it's just like, you watch these motherfuckers.
I mean, you watch, [laughs] you watch you guys work, and it's just like if you didn't understand forging at all, these guys, you guys all have it down.
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