Brothers in Smithing - Monthly Metal Challenge
What happens when a blacksmith is best friends with a tinsmith? Andrew Cirtwill of Deer Run Forge and Kipling Campbell of Tapley Tinsmith challenge each other every month to make something great out of metal. We talked about our projects, lessons learned, and other things that come up.
Episodes
This month's Challenge is to create a set of three decorative birds.
Kipling used three differnt metals to create a family set of chickens that can nest together or stand alone. Andrew made a copper birds set in a forged steel loop.
This month we talk about learning new skills and tools. Our esoteric eggel gets us talking about our best bird stories.
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This month's Challenge is to use metal to create a bat decoration that includes hinges in the piece somewhere.
Kipling used repousse and chasing to form a bat out of copper adding a lever and spring to his piece to make an automatic opening action. Andrew made a metal bay with hinged wings, cuter and with brass brushing on the inside to reflex a hidden candle.
This month we talk about where we are and what our go...
This month's Challenge is to use metal to make a mirror into a piece of loon themed art.
No one wants the bad luck of breaking a mirror and this one has us both on edge.
Kipling used repousse and chasing to form a loon into a piece of copper adding cutouts to show the mirror underneath. Andrew made a thick frame for his mirror in order to reflex the forged metal waves while adding a polished loon on the mirror.
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This month's Challenge is to make a unique thermometer.
Who really uses thermometers anymore anyway… we each broke a few glass thermometer bulbs building our version of a unique thermometer..
Andrew made a metal daisy-like flower and the leaves come out at the correct temperatures and Kipling took fun weather related sayings and made them into temperature makers out of brass and copper.
This month we talk about wha...
This month's Challenge is framed shark, to honor Shark Week.
Andrew bent and welded up wire and mounted it to a fancy light box and Kipling took coloured wire and made a pride shark with a copper wire background.
This month we talk about new tools and new sources for material and our esoteric eggels gets us laughing about great costumes of the past..
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This month's Challenge is a garden decoration inspired by Alice in Wonderland.
Andrew forged a shepherd's hook with a cheshire cat face that hangs in front of a sign and Kipling made a cheshire cat face that watches over a spattering of other components that make up a bird bath and feeder..
This month our esoteric eggels gets us talking about our gardens and pets.
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This month's Challenge is to create a candle holder for a pile of old copper pipe.
Andrew created a feather candle stand with shiny feathers behind to reflect light and Kipling made a hinged tea light holder that all folds up to a nice sun decoration.
This month our esoteric eggels gets us talking about our musical talents and Andrew talks about his new small flypress.
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This time we recap our first season of podcasting.
Our favorite challenges and the challenges we might want to forget. Hear more detail about the challenges by the numbers.
We also get into a little bit more of our market sales and how these challenges help stock our tables and entertain both our customers and us.
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This month's Challenge is an original animal created by mashing up two or more other animals.
This challenge was inspired by a high school assignment and the fun had following March Mammal Madness (linked below). Andrew created a Koala Spider trying to make the creepy spider cute and Kipling made a Bat-Eared Falpion, combining a falcon and scorpion with bat ears.
This month our esoteric eggels and share our favori...
This month's Challenge is an art piece inspired by the term “Wild City”.
This challenge stands out as just an art piece, when most of our creations have some type of function these purposes are just art. Andrew made a city covered by grass and dandelions he calls “Weeds above us” and Kipling made a copper tree as it up roots a house he calls “treed House”
This month our esoteric eggels and share our favorite wild...
This month's Challenge is an original cast copper Monopoly piece.
We both had issues learning the new skills needed to create successful castings from melted copper. In the end Kipling made a sleigh a rustic Aladdin lamp and Andrew made a polished mini anvil.
As is now tradition we talk about some esoteric eggels and share our favorite pranks we have pulled and chat about our current shop wonders and woes.
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This month's Challenge is a sleigh shaped candy dish.
Kipling made a sleigh with a great tufted pillow seat out of copper and aluminum and Andrew made a sleigh from steel and struggled to find the inspiration on this project.
As is now tradition we talk about some esoteric eggels and share our favorite Christmas foods and Andrew asks what material other than metal that we want to make something from..
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This month's Challenge is a Miniature Christmas Village house.
Kipling made a tinsmith shop out of copper and Andrew made a steel blacksmith shop (because of course he did.) These are meant to be added to a miniature Christmas village display.
As is now tradition we talk about some esoteric eggels and share our favorite Christmas decorations and we talk about Dolly Parton again.
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This month's Challenge is a chess set.
Kipling made a set of different flowers out of copper and Andrew made steel gnomes. Kipling is a better chess player but can he make a better set of pieces? We have been making these for months
As is now tradition we talk about some esoteric eggels and share our favorite halloween decorations and we both added something new to our shows.
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This month's Challenge is a Trivet.
Kipling made a brass celtic knot and Andrew made a steel pineapple. Yes they both work as trivets or hot plates.
As per usual we talk about some esoteric eggels and share our favourite recipe and Andrew Asks a somewhat related question to our work..
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This month's Challenge is a Animal Brooch . It had to be an animal we had not made before, and it had to be small enough to be worn as a brooch.
Kipling used copper and epoxy to make a loon brooch. While Andrew made a wire frame silhouette of a wolf with scrolls inside out of a coat hanger.
As now tradition, we talk about our shop woes and wonders and share an esoteric eggle about our favorite chores.
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This month's Challenge is a Metal House Plant .
Kipling made a copper money plant from scrap copper cutoffs using a broken texturing die and Andrew made a steel Venus Flytrap with multiple heads and sharp pokey bits..
As now tradition we talk about our shop woes and wonders and share some this time some vintage musical esoteric eggels too.
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This month's Challenge is a Bird Bookend.
Kipling made a brass and cooper woodpecker with fancy cutouts and Andrew made a humming bird with small flowers on a heavy metal base.
As now tradition we talk about our shop woes and wonders and share some esoteric eggels too.
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This month's Challenge is Fairy Doors.
Kipling made a whimsical fairy doors based on the four elements and Andrew made a more traditional door with forged hardware.
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Challenge posted on April 29, 2024
May's Challenge is set to be a bird bookend.
This month's Challenge is Bookmarks.
Kipling made a bunch of different bookmark designs using new patina techniques and Andrew tried his hand at copper inlay on a flattened piece of wrought iron.
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Challenge posted on March 25, 2024
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