Last Tuesday was probably the worst day I've had at the anvil in years

I was working on a set of fire tongs, nothing too crazy, just a basic design I've made maybe 20 times before. But from the start everything felt off, the steel wasn't heating evenly in my forge, I burned my wrist on the third weld, and then I snapped a brand new 1/4 inch punch on a simple drift. By noon I had a pile of scrap and zero usable parts. What really got me was that I kept pushing through instead of just walking away for an hour. I ended up making the same mistake three times because I was too stubborn to stop and let the metal cool. Has anyone else had a day where you just should have quit early but kept making things worse?

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jenny_carr5219d ago

Yeah I've had days like that. Sometimes your brain just isn't in it no matter how hard you try. Walking away early would have saved you a lot of trouble.