No, not my doom, or anything else negative. Just possibly the greatest boon to armor-crafters and/or other blacksmiths across the globe.
It is... drum roll please... a swage block!
For those of y'all who don't know what it is, look it up. For those too lazy to do so, basically it is a lump of solid steel with bowl shapes and spoon shapes engraved into it, and different angles and other shapes around the rim. This may seem entirely useless to non-smiths, scratching their heads over the curious ramblings of this viking smith over a 20 lb. block of metal with shapes in it, but to smiths, it is rather invaluable. Particularly those who craft armor and are desperately in need of dishing triangles of steel sheeting into a full Norse spangenhelm.
Anyhoo, on a slightly more serious matter, college begins again on Tuesday, and from thereon out it will be a struggle. Not that college itself is a struggle, no. It is satisfyingly challenging, aye, but with certain bad days ahead, and all, it is becoming a rather pressing thing to find other Christians on campus.
God bless y'all.
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