Heavy Machinery and Red Hot Peppers...

(photograph from Jim's website)

This is really something! When I tried to imagine what a blacksmith shop would look like, I had this vision of little fire going in a corner, and someone banging on a piece of glowing metal with an enormous hammer. Last weekend that picture was replaced with the amazingly, beautiful machines at Jim Austin's Alchemy Metalworks. I had never seen anything like this. Little mountains of metal dust cover the ground of the hangar, that is filled with machines that make you wonder how anyone could have ever moved them in there. Jim does custom metal work and shows his product line on his website... if you ever need anything metal, than this is the guy for you!



(I took this picture of Jim's kitchen counter which looks very different from mine..)