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A little scrap brass korok pin, made for a friend. It was fun to use brass patina to make leaf colorations

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I had some scrap glass from a stained glass project, so I made it into a little Crucible with brass scraps and old paint.

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The Hart Blade is also a collaboration piece between myself and a guild mate with the roles reversed, I forged and they finished. An elegant thing that's wickedly sharp. Its lore requires its wielder to be a steward and protector of the environment around them, or face the wrath of the forest itself.

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This orcish chopper is named Lovebite, and is the product of a collaboration between myself and another smith in my guild (they did a rough forging, I did the grind and the rest of the finishing and handle)

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A while back I was asked to make a pommel for a sword a friend of mine was forging. Turns out that sword was being made for a player on the Cleveland browns who's super into d&d. Matt Mercer even named it for him: Ruinous End. For my upcoming show I decided to make a mini version of that sword, I'm pretty pleased with the results!

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Tiny kyoketsu shoge, made from scraps and painted with recycled paints

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Tiny war hammer! I had to make the rivets myself from 12g house wire. This is going to be part of a gallery showing about tiny things, what should I make next?

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I've been having fun making mini weapons from little scraps of metal and recycled paints. What should I make next?

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Junkyard chainsaw greatsword, complete with a pullstart. Her names Bridget.

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I made a couple of brooches recently from scraps I had lying around the shop

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The Blade of Union is a wedding present I made for my good friend who I’ve been playing D&D with for years. Hand forged by me from stainless steel and brass, I even made the brass and felt box for it and the item description!

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A rail spike knife I made as a thank you present for my neighbor who was nice enough to give me this heavy sugar maple stump to affix my anvil to. The home forge is 100% up and running now, if you’d like to commission something just send me a DM!

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Well, sometimes things don’t work out the way you want. This piece got destroyed in shipping and had to be returned for a rebuild, and this is the result! I’ve named this newly reformed letter opener “leafcutter”. How do you think it looks compared to the original?

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My newest blade “The Staghorn” was made in collaboration with another smith across the country. He sent me the rough forging, and I did all the finishing, and then sent it back and vice versa. It was a lot of fun working from another persons starting point to see how things came out.

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New knife! This one is made from a tine off of an old spring harrow and some salvaged scrap hardwood. This knife was made as a give away on my Twitter account, (which you should follow @theuglymachine)

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Sword pendant I crafted for my partner for Valentine’s Day 2022. Made from scrap bronze. The bottom picture is before antiquing and finishing. Let me know what you think!

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A letter opener made with recycled materials (as always). This commissioner wanted to emphasize a celebration of plant life and vulture culture, how do you think I did?

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