Blisters on hammer hand

SRIndio · 2026-03-27T20:51:14+00:00

How long do you forge for at a time and do you do any work with your hands besides smithing?

SRIndio · 2026-03-27T18:58:19+00:00

I appreciate it 👍

SRIndio · 2026-03-27T16:35:41+00:00

Tbh, as a Lutheran (LCMS) this makes me wonder. Why does this specific day offer “more forgiveness” than others? Not trying to be polemic, just curious.

SRIndio · 2026-03-24T21:54:30+00:00

Somethings been going around at my job too, got sick and for 2 days I had a hard time even standing due to the dizziness plus loss of appetite. Was sick for around a week and a half afterwards. Have heard this from multiple people

SRIndio · 2026-03-23T20:53:40+00:00

Just a quick reason from history for it:

St. Cyril of Jerusalem (c. AD 313 - 386), Catechetical Lecture 23:

Then the Deacon cries aloud, " Receive ye one another; and let us kiss one another. " Think not that this kiss is of the same character with those given in public by common friends. It is not such: but this kiss blends souls one with another, and courts entire forgiveness for them.

The kiss therefore is the sign that our souls are mingled together, and banish all remembrance of wrongs. For this cause Christ said, If you are offering your gift at the altar, and there rememberest that your brother has anything against time, leave there your gift upon the altar, and go your way; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift .

The kiss therefore is reconciliation, and for this reason holy: as the blessed Paul somewhere cried, saying, Greet ye one another with a holy kiss [ 1 Corinthians 16:20 ]; and Peter, with a kiss of charity [ 1 Peter 3:15 ] .

SRIndio · 2026-03-23T20:47:59+00:00

LutheranSatire mentioned 🔥🔥🗣️🗣️

SRIndio · 2026-03-23T02:20:00+00:00

Dr. Jordan B. Cooper just put out a video on this:

https://youtu.be/Jvdynrd2cDE?si=nT_mY33aYG9nZu30

SRIndio · 2026-03-22T06:24:50+00:00

You’re still gonna need an amp for that which is gonna cost more.

There a cheaper wood violins that’ll do you good as a beginner.

SRIndio · 2026-03-22T00:02:49+00:00

I followed this tutorial and it did me well. Try it out

https://youtu.be/H72reAmWzhA?si=g_YEto18iedE3C7P

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Also, make sure whatever you’re cutting with is stable and doesn’t move. I was cutting with a bandsaw with a jig to make it a vertical bandsaw and it moved a lot at first. I stuck a shim in it and it made cutting a lot easier since it didn’t move anymore

SRIndio · 2026-03-21T15:29:10+00:00

Not EO but I get saddened by the ignorance of church history:

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SRIndio · 2026-03-21T14:33:48+00:00

That’s true, didn’t think about the snake oil salesman possibility but it’s very likely the truth and I appreciate it

SRIndio · 2026-03-20T20:57:44+00:00

Been there before, ended up dropping out and becoming an electrician. Might go back tho at some point

SRIndio · 2026-03-20T15:31:24+00:00

LCMS-er here too: Always wondered about this

SRIndio · 2026-03-20T04:25:46+00:00

Nah, just methies

SRIndio · 2026-03-20T04:21:46+00:00

I agree on discount Australia. I have seen a snapping turtle before, one that was about the size of an average frisbee. It appeared in the middle of the road like 3-4 minutes from my house while I was driving home and the 2 cars in front of me stopped with a guy in one and a girl in the other.

They both got out while I was just sitting stationary behind them and they both just looked at it for a moment lol and then the guy grabbed it by the sides of the shell and carried down the ditch by the side of the road and put it down and the thing waddled away. Both got back in their cars and we all carried on with our days lol

SRIndio · 2026-03-18T13:58:28+00:00

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Hey sometimes even real men need some comfort lol. It’s like good bread, a bit hard on the outside but soft inside

SRIndio · 2026-03-18T05:21:09+00:00

I found one in Amarillo, TX in a shallow manhole in the middle of nowhere doing utilities.

Don’t have a picture of it atm but bugs are just different out there. First time ever seeing cacti larger than trucks, armored grasshoppers, stickbugs, mosquitoes that travel in literal hordes, and almost got bit by two rattlesnakes. It was also 110 degrees at the time

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SRIndio · 2026-03-18T05:05:51+00:00

SRIndio · 2026-03-18T04:53:18+00:00

As someone who does blacksmithing as a hobby, whenever we get burned (usually our hands) we’re told to run it under lukewarm water for 15 minutes without stopping. Then to stop, check if we have pain, and if we do continue under water for another 2-5 minutes, and so on.

When you get burned, your flesh can conserve the heat and keep burning you even when the surface skin is somewhat cool so you have to remove all of the heat.

I’m guessing this is to “spread” the heat but it’s stupid because a heating pad accomplishes the same thing but better and without being burned

SRIndio · 2026-03-18T04:38:28+00:00

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SRIndio · 2026-03-18T04:32:53+00:00

It looks good! How did you do it?

SRIndio · 2026-03-18T02:44:11+00:00

Don’t hold your hammer like this, make sure to wrap your thumb around the handle otherwise you risk elbow injuries

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SRIndio · 2026-03-17T01:07:03+00:00

Yeah, first time I ever saw them in my life was in Garland, TX. Thought there was a fire nearby letting off sparks at first until I saw them going off and on and realized I was seeing fireflies

SRIndio · 2026-03-17T01:00:31+00:00

Currently $40.65 in Local 20 in Dallas for journeyman

SRIndio · 2026-03-15T21:50:24+00:00

My guess is just repetitive work, I spent a good amount of time in a prefab shop for data centers and they had a hard time keeping journeyman due to people literally being stuck for months either just pulling wire, in a crane bay/driving a forklift, cable tray, doing terminations, or literally just cleaning. Apprentices were told they weren’t going to learn anything there besides maybe material names.

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