It pushed me to test my blades and products in ways that makes me nervous but the trade off is that now when I birth a product out into the world I know it will perform. I made some really great friends and connections with a whole new world of makers. It was a really great experience that stretched me as a bladesmith and maker. In Greek mythology the elder Cyclopes were three, orb-eyed, immortal giants who forged the lightning-bolts of Zeus. In 2015 I filmed an episode for the History Channel on their hit show, "Forged in Fire". lightning hit the almost complete runic forge and set the building on fire. I recently joined a blacksmith guild and have been soaking up the craft as fast as I possibly can. So the Bregas went to the giants cave and cried out to for it to save them. In the following two years I made eight seaxes, about a dozen oyster knives, various hooks, half a dozen rail road spike axes and five swords. The hammer felt just as natural in my hand as the pencil I was so accustomed to using for decades and I went to town. The smell, the sounds, the hammer and the fire just felt right. Then for Christmas in 2012 I got my forge.Īs soon as I hit my first piece of hot steel I was completely hooked. That was a great step of the process because I learned hammer control and built up my arm stamina. I moved my way into armoring while I was waiting to get that forge. I started out making wooden swords and shields while I scoured flea markets, antique shops and pawn stores for hammers, an anvil and various stakes. I found myself wanting to get my hands dirty. Please join Jason Redick, owner of Angry Giant Forge, LLC and Forged in Fire Champion (Season 2: Episode 6) for a unique opportunity to forge your own item. The fighting and sword play caught my eye. In 2010 I saw the show Spartacus on Starz. I never stopped creating but I didn't make another knife for well over ten years. I have worked professionally as a print designer, illustrator and web designer. The challenge of making something finished out of very little was very rewarding.Īfter high school I moved on, I went to art school and started having a family. I eventually graduated to using a hacksaw and cutting blade shapes out of steel and filing them down to have "edges". I started out hammering down nails sideways in the driveway and then sharpening the edges and mounting them in chunks of wood to make knives. Since I was a child I liked working steel. Aron from noble savage forge and a forged in fire contestant come by the shop today and hung out great meeting him we talked about getting a hammer in together. Surtr, the first Fire Giant, sensed the primordial fire within the Blades of. Working steel speaks to a part of me that must have been passed down to me from the ancients. Forged in the depths of the Underworld and personally offered to Kratos by.
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