leo603•9d ago

Hit 1000 finished knife blanks last month and it messed with my head a little

I was just tallying up my work from last year and realized I passed the 1000 mark on knife blanks in December. That number surprised me because I still feel like a beginner half the time, but seeing it on paper made me think about all the time I spent at the anvil in my shop in Tulsa. It made me wonder if there's a point where you stop second guessing your hammer blows or if that feeling ever goes away. Has anyone else hit a milestone that made them realize they've actually been at this longer than they thought?

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the_morgan9d ago

Hitting a thousand doesn't mean the second guessing stops, it just means you got faster at it.

leog689d ago

Feel you @the_morgan, that nagging voice doesn't just pack up and leave.