The Creation of a Turret Clock

I see so much of myself,

  Last night I was participating in a blacksmithing chat group on the www.anvilfire.com website.  Because of a techinal glitch that held up new members, there are suddenly a lot of new people all at once.  I found myself in a familiar scene, except I was on the advice end.

  The new guys were asking about anvils, hammer sizes, etc...  I suddenly realized they were asking the same questions I was asking about 3 years ago.  I found myself dispensing advice, answering questions, give cautionary warnings.  I was the most experience guy online at that moment.  There are pleanty of more experienced smiths on anvilfire but I was the most experienced that was online at that moment.

  It was an odd feeling but a good one.  Sometimes I don't feel like I'm making that much progress with my smithing but then I look back and see how far I've come.