New forged camp tripod with fire pot and cauldron perfect for fall camping or your Halloween party. ($550) frying pans ($120) and mushroom yard art. ($125) bring on the rain!
welcome to Autumn
Back to the Shire.
“Fireworks Gandalf Fireworks!” “Dragon, Nonsense there hasn’t been a dragon in these parts for thousand years!” Back to Shrewsbury Renaissance Fair, my home fair, In the lush Kings Valley Oregon, Good Fun good business, And good company, though I have to wonder if I’ve been officially labeled a disturber of the peace? Fire extinguishers were on hand I assure you!
Balancing the Fire temple
I expanded my workshop with a new wing and added steel roofing and Cedar fascia. Steel roofing services as well as carpentry services are available. As an artist and esoteric scholar I know the importance of aesthetic symmetry especially in architecture. there’s a reason “temple” is a word used for buildings as well as the human head. keep your brain balanced too much to the right with the mammalian cortex and it might fall out and two much to the left in the reptilian cortex and you’ll be closed off to anything new. Politics contorts and preys on this dynamic. The solution is found at the apex between each hemisphere or wing at the human Neo cortex (sovereignty from government) and not in the dirt between them with some kind of (centerist totalitarianism )
concrete work.
Digging trenches laying pipe and spreading concrete for a new drain to keep a building from flooding. Apart from blacksmithing which Ive been at since I was eleven, Concrete work was my formal introduction to the world of the trades when I was 19 and since then I’ve worked off and on doing jobs like this.
miscellaneous
Chainsaw blade alchemy
Have an old chainsaw blade lying around?, Need a new knife? I can transform it into one for you. The edges are very keen with very little sharpening.
A Dragons Prestige: Canterbury Renaissance fair 2024
Once again I made the journey 222 miles north to the Canterbury Renaissance fair, where I spent two weekends vending and traveling back and forth to my shop to make more stock between acts. At Canterbury and other renaissance fairs I like to get in character as if I am really from the 1500’s and thus neglect the usage of my phones camera… I spent the days vending from my booth, lighting my firebreathing dragon barking to customers, flirting with maidens, and heckling the “rats” (people dressed up as rats for the children to “catch”) as well as the “queen” and her entourage as they would pass playing the role of a rogue alchemist spreading the heresy of THE GREAT WORK in front of agents of the catholic Inquisition, who would most assuredly have burned me at the stake if it were actually the 1500’s. Nights were spent relaxing beyond the veil of a blackberry hedge with the company of fellow blacksmiths and other members of The Mongers Guild as well as at the pirate themed traveling bar. As an introverted WYRDo renaissance fairs allow me a platform to speak authentically to the point where acting becomes real where arcane concepts like astrology and alchemy are not disparaged but embraced.. being above the influence of the polarities of government yet finding myself in the presence of both polarities, I took the liberty to remind my fellow vendors the dangers of the state (fear) church (superstion) and the Mob(Ignornace) hoping to heal the division and walking away feeling a bit like Uther pendragon (Head Dragon) who as legend tells united both Christian and Pagan in a land of Chaos . In a time when so many are stuck playing a tabletop or videogame imagining themselves the heroic adventurer, a renaissance fair is subtle reminder that YOU ARE that heroic adventurer In the Game of Life!
Not all Treasure is Silver and gold mate.
Yes I can Fix, reinforce, or modify your trailer
3 trailers Ive worked on this year. I offer Mobile welding services with very reasonable rates.
Vending at the Finding Foundations convention
Aquarian Abstract African
New commissioned sculpture in Steel and copper standing roughly 3ft. The water bearing lady of Aquarius.
