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
26 episodes
Fishy Soap Dish-y???
This month's Challenge was to make a fish themed soap dish - cause who dosen’t want one of those.Kipling made a bookend like fish scene with LED lights but his epoxy might hide some of his details while Andrew tried epoxy for t...
Six Cans and a Candle
This month's Challenge was to create a candle holder with 6 tall beer cans.This challenge was just that: a challenge to create something out of such thin material. Kipling used the colour on the cans to make leaves for a ...
a Shrike is not a mammal!
This month's challenge will be to create an award using an animal from March Mammal Maddness. Kipling chased out a Northern Shrike (and yes we are aware a shrike is not a mammal) and got creative with the colouring and nam...
Fierce Courage
This month's Challenge is to create an art piece inspired from the phrase "fierce courage”. Kipling got out his casting equipment and made a copper child holding a teddy bear about to open their closet door with a ghost be...
Viking build with hidden compartment
This month's Challenge is to make a viking inspired piece with a hidden compartment.Andrew made a metal shield that stores post it notes inside. Kipling got a bit more completed and made a viking ship with a removable mas...
Lighthouses
This month's Challenge is to make an art piece with a lighthouse in it.Andrew made lots of metal scrolls from past work and made them into a crashing ocean that seems to threaten two small metal people in the...
Decorative Bird Set
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 s...
Hinged Bat
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...
Looney Reflection
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 fo...
Thermometers - the competition heats up!
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 dai...
Framed Shark Challenge
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.
Alice in Gardenland
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 spatt...
Recycled Copper Challenge
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...
Season One Rundown
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 o...
Geo-Critter Clash
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 cr...
"Wild City" Contest
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...
Monopoly Match Up
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 a...
Sleigh Skirmish
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.&nb...
Miniature Shop Showdown!
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 Chris...
Chess Challenge
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 ...
The Trivet Tussel
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 ou...
Animal Brooch Battle
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 ...
Metal Plant Match
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.. <...