Welcome to my new blog, My parents, teacher and almost everyone who knows me will tell you I was born 100 years too late, I know it's kind of a cliche' but in my case it's truer than most. I spend my days using pre-Christian metalworking techniques to reproduce artifacts for museums, reenactors, and National Park Service historic sites, or using those technques to create new ironwork with traditional methods and "feel". You can check out my work on my Facebook page under Prairie Elk Forge.
It's hard for me to adapt to this new fangled contraption but my children and wife assure me that folks out in cyber space will find some of what I do every day interesting. Remember I was dragged kicking and screaming into the 20th Century...the 21st Century is a daunting place for a guy who spent his whole life working out the technology from the previous millenium!
I started today like everyday feeding my saddle horses and my nieghbors down on the banks of the Musselshell River in central Montana, it was about five degrees below zero
and they were all glad to see me.
I spent the balance of the day working on a pair of table lamps for a great client from Western Montana. I was fortunate enough to spend the better part of a year working on her house, everything from the door hardware and fire screens to all the custom lighting. A freind of mine and I collaborated on a sofa table for her last Summmer, his firm built the woodwork, and I built the ironwork. The table incorporated wood salvaged from an old tobbbacco barn her husbands grandfather built in Georgia, iron that I forged came from the railroad watering tower built here in Lavina Montana in 1884, and sandstone with a petroglph of two sandhill cranes. So I was happy to have the opprotunity to make her table lamps.
I got pretty well done with them today and have only the wiring to complete the project.
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