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I just was on this archery podcast I talked about blacksmithing archery and Vermont open.spotify.com/episode/2Pxo...

Ep: 54 Jesse Savage of Jesse Savage Blacksmithopen.spotify.com Listen to this episode from The Droptine Traditions Podcast on Spotify. Badass name and badass forge. Jesse and I sit down and pow wow about the forging profession, and archery. Different and refresh...

Roaming around Kinsale Ireland last week

Cemetery marker

I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found. -John Steinbeck

Taught a blacksmith intro class at Center For Metal Arts last weekend with Carrie

If only these old tools could talk.

Field archery arrow quiver 🤔 #anotherbadidea “The history of the bow and arrow is the history of mankind” -Fred Bear

White Mtns NH… “Immerse yourself in the outdoor experience. It will cleanse your soul and make your a better person.” -Fred Bear

Forged arrow head

“forge me the harpoon. And forge me first, twelve rods for its shank; then wind, and twist, and hammer these twelve together like the yarns and strands of a tow-line. Quick! I'll blow the fire.” Chapter 113 The Forge, Moby dick. -Melville

I’m full of dumb ideas, braided steel arrow slingshot I made…

Picked up this old Fred Bear Archery recurve

“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.” -Jack Kerouac

Hot iron in snow…

Teaching a class at Center for Metal Arts in Johnstown, Pa.

Forged arrow quiver… “Nothing clears a troubled mind better than shooting a bow.” -Fred Bear

Forged Texture

Forging trident “See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.” -Herman Melville

Forged bottle opener #vermontmade

Forged trident , more photos to come …. #forged

Forged axe… “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” Abraham Lincoln

Forged ouroboros. Ouroboros -is a gnostic and alchemical symbol that expresses the unity of all things, material and spiritual, which never disappear but perpetually change form in an eternal cycle of destruction and re-creation.

Found an old Masonic hat in an antique shop, same hat my Great Great Grandfather wore in the 1890’s in Barre , Vermont …

Dragonfly I made for a friend … “You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” -Jack London

Blacksmith shop archery range 🤔 “Don't think of what you have to do, don't consider how to carry it out!" he exclaimed. "The shot will only go smoothly when it takes the archer himself by surprise.” -Eugen Herrige

“It is not down on any map; true places never are.” -Herman Melville

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. Jack Kerouac #jackkerouac #blacksmith

Forged broadhead #tradarchery

Forging impressions…

Some scroll work #anvil #blacksmithing