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The Edge of Will: August 2013
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This is a record of my travels through material and symbolic worlds in cycles of creating, re-creating, and being created by earthly materials, universal forces, and human inspirations. Wednesday, August 28, 2013. June 2013: Two weeks with Petr Floriánek. Petr assuming the guise of Grímnir. In the middle of the quiet, breezy, protected clearing stood a table, chairs, and a spacious linen tent: my bedroom for the next two weeks. The first weekend of my stay, Petr took me out into the majestic Slavic pines...
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The Edge of Will: April 2014
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This is a record of my travels through material and symbolic worlds in cycles of creating, re-creating, and being created by earthly materials, universal forces, and human inspirations. Thursday, April 24, 2014. What happens after hearth melting. What we met to do was to take the hearth-melted material that I made with Jack McAuliffe. Where did the weight go? It just so happened that at MassArt last year. I consolidated a bar of bloomery iron from when I was in England. With Owen Bush. It had almost ...
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The Edge of Will: What happens after hearth melting
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This is a record of my travels through material and symbolic worlds in cycles of creating, re-creating, and being created by earthly materials, universal forces, and human inspirations. Thursday, April 24, 2014. What happens after hearth melting. What we met to do was to take the hearth-melted material that I made with Jack McAuliffe. Where did the weight go? It just so happened that at MassArt last year. I consolidated a bar of bloomery iron from when I was in England. With Owen Bush. It had almost ...
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Links » Cedarlore Forge
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Knives & Seaxes. Illustration & Fine Art. Here are some links to my favorite sites, some sites of great friends and fellow bladesmiths, and some of my favorite music to forge by in alphabetical order:. 8211; Bladesmiths and Artists –. Bellow is a list of some incredible friends of mine within this craft. People I have been greatly taught, inspired, and encouraged by. Please checkout all of their amazing work:. Peter Braspenninx – PHYRE FORGE. Bladesmithing learning and tool resource websites:. Dr Corey O...
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The Edge of Will: September 2013
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This is a record of my travels through material and symbolic worlds in cycles of creating, re-creating, and being created by earthly materials, universal forces, and human inspirations. Monday, September 9, 2013. Four Saxes à la Petr Florianek (Part II). The next step was to remove the antler waist and transfer my design onto it, which was certainly an exercise in eyeballing! Project #3, really quick, was the re-hilting of an old sax blade I made in Worcester, Massachusetts with my good friend Jack McAul...
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Shards of the Dark Age: Sharpening: Spokeshaves
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Shards of the Dark Age. Pieces of a bygone Age brought back to life with a pair of weathered hands and the curiosity which left it in ruin. Interested in learning about blacksmithing? Traditional leather preservation techniques. Monday, August 3, 2015. This spokeshave belonged to my grandfather, an old Stanley No. 52 that has seen a fair bit of use through the years. Because there is a spot or two of rust in various places, I'll be cleaning that up while I have it in mind. Reassembling the spokeshave, se...
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Shards of the Dark Age: February 2015
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Shards of the Dark Age. Pieces of a bygone Age brought back to life with a pair of weathered hands and the curiosity which left it in ruin. Interested in learning about blacksmithing? Traditional leather preservation techniques. Saturday, February 14, 2015. Farther down the cavern wound, sculpted by the hand of water rushing past for thousands of years beyond what my own life will see. As though flint knapped carefully by a hunter's hand, the surface was together smooth and pocked, forming the illusi...
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Shards of the Dark Age: Cartography
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Shards of the Dark Age: Metallurgy
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Shards of the Dark Age. Pieces of a bygone Age brought back to life with a pair of weathered hands and the curiosity which left it in ruin. Interested in learning about blacksmithing? Traditional leather preservation techniques. Closer look at the metallurgy of Iron, Steel, and non ferrous metals. On Iron, Part I. Aspects of metallurgical chemistry that examine natural sources of iron and its subsequent processing into steel. On Iron, Part II. On Iron, Part III. Water casting aluminium and brass.
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