Friday, November 2, 2007

country elf

the great lord of the forge wanted me to write up a blurb for his ebay store..........on a term i started using recently to apply to his more residential smithwork.................

yes, i did say country elf.

to start off with, i have to explain what he's been doing recently. he's been getting bored with just jewelry, just stuff that's medeival........just stuff that's documentable.............just stuff that he's been doing forever (or variations thereof)..........
so he's started doing different things, like windchimes, dinner triangles, plant hooks, steak flippers; and he's working on things like candleholders, towel rings and bars, toilet paper and paper towel holders, probably eventually doing drawer pulls and pot racks, maybe even lamps and chandleirs (no i can't spell that correctly!).............

these are all things that many modern smiths do, and are generally labeled country craft items. modernly, the country craft movement makes them with twists, hearts, stars, things of this nature (i know you get the picture!)..........

he's doing them with dragons, leaves, snakes, vines...........they tend to look very organic, vaguely elvish even................

this led me to label them country elf.

said label (delivered deadpan, while in the truck) almost caused him to swerve off the road as it registered what i said and he snarfed...............

country elf is (obviously) a fusion between high/middle elvish and country craft........traditionally forged items in a country style infused with whimsical and fanciful elements........as if a backwoods country farmer-type elvish blacksmith started producing items for modern use..........

does this make any sense?? i'll link to the ebay store, once some of this stuff is posted.........see if there is any consensus on this..........
or if i just come up with a better description..........

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