If you're reading this you likely want to know more about how I make my pieces. My approach is a different, and part of that is because of a skillset I inherited from Elly as a child (You can learn more about that here).

I often refer to myself as a blacksmith jeweler. And while I use a lot of the same tools that blacksmiths do, my work is different. I work on a much smaller scale than most other smiths. And while I use the term jeweler, I work with different metals. I carve with angle and bench grinders. And my soldering experience is limited to replacing a foot treadle wire because I dropped a big hunk of steel and severed one of the three wires that connected it to my induction furnce.

Most of work begins as stainless steel pipe. I cut it to size, hammer it while it's on a mandrel I made from recycled rebar (the mandrel plus ring is supported by the hardy hole on my anvil), clean it up with a bench sander, oxidize it, then set it on fire after an oil bath to turn it black.

I package and ship everything after it gets a wash or two following the above steps.

Some pieces require additional steps and a fine eye for grinding shapes. Others require the use a drill press and a tool called a guillotine. When all is said and done, each piece is hammered on my anvil and heated to temperatures hot enough to melt our skin.