Metalworking Quotes

The paynefull smith, with force of fervent heat, The hardest yron soone doth mollify, That with his heavy sledge he can it beat, And fashion it to what he it list apply.

Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.

The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings.

From time to time, I've experimented with sculpture or metal design. It's a good break from just sitting behind the keyboard.

When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

My father was a die maker for 39 years, so I had a basic understanding of the automobile industry and what the manufacturing world was like, just from the opportunity to spend time with him - just talking, because he was a car buff.

Other musicians are basically personalities who want to make a name for themselves. All I do is sing old songs in the best way I can. What else is there to know? If you were a blacksmith, what would people need to know about you other than whether you can make a good horseshoe?

When I was in school, shop class was where the kids that weren't good in anything to do with books went.

I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it's an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light.

Old Tubal Cain was a man of might In the days when earth was young.

I might have preferred iron - but bronze will do. It won't rust. This time I hope, the head will stay on.

This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.

The smith and his penny both are black.

If you build a robot, you're welding, machining sculpting, casting, dealing with electronics and hydraulics.

My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you can make something yourself.

I try to make pieces that are durable. One of the reasons that I work in steel is durability.

Bend color names which should be made of neon or copper tubing. Place an object on a surface - trace the object - then bend the object - leaving some part of it attached.

You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean it's useless.

You cannot make an aircraft without forged components.

Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.

Quicksilver is used for many purposes; without it, neither silver nor brass can be properly gilt.

The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture.

Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.

Steel is such a nice material to use. It can move. It's terribly easy, you just stick it or you cut it off, and bang! you're there: it's so direct. I think Manet was very direct, he didn't prepare his canvases like Courbet, he just put paint straight on and it's very like that with steel.

The shield of Achilles was a great work of art; Homer devoted an entire chant of the Iliad to describing it. I suppose that the Americans would cast and mould such a shield in a few hours