Here are things rugged and hand-forged, things reflecting the very humanity that crafted it, perfect in their imperfections.Ĭorey Simon is a United Methodist pastor living in Michigan with his wife and pets. In a world of perfectly polished and emotionless tools birthed from unfeeling beasts, hatching their children in factories and warehouses, sending them into the world to serve and sew death, here are things which require calloused hands and sweaty brows. It’s true: these tools are nowhere near as polished as the factory-produced guns they once were, nor are they as clean as the garden tools you could pick up at any hardware store. Beat the Unbeaten: Scrap Steel Challenge. You will not find a better quality knife anywhere for the price. In the year and a half since this first forgery class, I’ve been converting gun after gun into garden tool in my home blacksmithing space, seeing things once made to be tools of death transformed into servants of life. Metalworking contest in which bladesmiths compete to craft an ornamental weapon. We have the highest quality handmade knives on eBay. Swords are in short supply these days, but guns are plentiful. Soon this scrap of metal, once manufactured in order to take life, is now converted into something handmade, designed to grow and produce: a garden tool.Īnd they shall beat their swords into plowshares. I pull out what I’ve prepared for today: the barrel of my 9mm handgun, inexpertly cut from the rest of the gun which now sits useless at home.Įach hit echoes the sound the handgun once made in its former life, before angle grinder and screwdriver had their way, beginning the process of renewal. It’s the second day at the forge, and the sound of hammers and the fumes of coal smoke surround me as my classmates work on their own projects.
Forged in Fire by Corey Simon, Geez 59: Powers and Principalities.
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