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That older smith who corrected my hammer grip
At a demo in Tulsa last spring, a retired farrier watched me forge ten leaves and finally stepped in. He said I was choking the handle like a baseball bat and showed me a loose grip that lets the hammer drop on its own. I tried it on the next leaf and the texture came out cleaner than anything I'd made in three years. Anyone else had a random stranger's two-minute tip fix a habit you'd baked in?
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drew_west3d ago
That chokehold grip thing hits home, took me years to unlearn that same habit.
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