Pewter Casting

Last April, Master Phillipe de Lyon taught a class on pewter casting at the SCA event It Takes My Child to Raze a Village (an awesome event where children are the stars). It turns out that you can do simple pewter casting with very inexpensive materials. I thought this was really quite amazing, so I

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Blacksmithing at Tyger Hunt

Aw, look at me so happy.  I like this picture a lot.  I usually wear knee-high leather lace-up boots, but they are at the cobbler’s this week getting re-soled. I did blacksmithing this past weekend for the first time!!!  My life is so awesome.  For those who don’t know, I’m a member of the Society

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