In the Order of All Nighters

Good morning and welcome to another For the Honor Forge blogpost. I'm your host, Stephen and today I will talk about staying up too late and not being able to focus on what I want  to write about.

I'm joking, but seriously I have been staying up way too much these past few weeks. My school schedule keeps me very busy. Anywho, tonight's, or this morning's, adventures in staying awake when it is dark out came about from my earnest desire to fulfil orders from my Etsy shop. Over the past 3 months I have  completed 10 online orders. I have 3 more orders to send off as soon as I can. I have already painted them and they are drying. I will need to check the paint job to ensure they look good in the light of course.

This brings me to my next topic: popularity of products. A few months ago I sent out a survey asking what you my dear readers would like see more of. Bows and armor were your answers. I am sorry to say I still have not completed my steel spaulders.

However I have presented unto you my PVC bows. These are actually quite popular and surpassed my sword sales, which surprised me greatly. I thought plastic swords with scabbards would be a great hit… I enjoyed making them and I still have plenty in stock.

As fun as plastic is to work with, I am a blacksmith, I work with fire and steel. I wan to show this in my product lines. Friday night I finally got back to my forge to practice some basic metal moving techniques to keep from getting rusty. I ended up experimenting with making spearheads. I'll load up some pictures when I can.
If you go to my Etsy store you will notice that I do have one of my steel products for sale, a sword. That blade took almost a year to make. Not because of constant work but because I was too busy to finish it. Well, it is finished now and some brave soul may purchase it.

​Besides the sword, I am also adding another new product that I am very pleased with, Wooden Shields. This particular on is the first from the line and I plan on making not only wood shields but plastic ones and, of course,  steel. Steel shields will of course be on a custom order basis for now but hopefully soon I will build up a stock of those and wooden shields. I recently picked up materials for the plastic shields. I need to experiment a little in how to efficiently make them but I promise you these will be exciting.

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Well, that is all for now. Let me know if you have any comments or questions. Best way to contact me is through my email: forthehonorforge@gmail.com

I look forward to hearing from you.