[TheForge] Home-made grinders and wire brushes

[Jerry Frost]

Yeah, in the old days a blacksmith's retirement date was when s/he lost 
their second eye.

Jer
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From: "peter fels" <artgawk at thegrid.net>
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Subject: Re: [TheForge] Home-made grinders and wire brushes


> By contrast, there's the advice in Alexander Weiger's book to the effect 
> that;
> Real professional blacksmiths just squint when grinding.
> Never been able to find it since, but somewhere i have an old metal 
> working book from WW1 showing
> row on row of worker's faces, wearing the glasses they were wearing at the 
> time of the accident.
> Each one of them has a missing or damaged eye, showing from behind the 
> shattered lenses.
>