My, how the once mighty have fallen. Going from setting diamonds in gold to making repairs in iron. And before this sparks off the whole all work is good and needed, or working with one is just as good as the other, etc., etc., etc., it’s just a joke. I know the value of hand-work is not in the value of the materials, But today’s adventures involve the forge and working mild steel.
Mistress Lorelei, who loves outdoor cooking more than anything, has a fire-pit cooking set, that she loaned out to someone, When it was returned, it was missing a leg and one of the others was bent. She brought the bent leg to me to see if i could fix it and would make her another one. This was a pretty straight forward cooking spit set-up, so i gladly took on this task. I have yet to see how it works, but I figured that if I made it to the same specs as the bent one, it would do as a replacement. At this point, in hindsight, i really hope the missing piece was not a mirror of the bent one. Having not fired up the forge in over a month, I was super glad for the excuse to get back to it.
So, the actual making of the leg is pretty mundane, so here is a photo montage of the work:
While I was at it, I did some more work on the hinged I am making for Lord Christof LeStrange. These are for a viking chest he is making for A&S.
And last but not least, we had a full house at Grimmsfield Monday night, arrow making, leather working and some of the fiber arts.. Just a wonderful artsy/crafty day from sun up to past sundown.
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