{"id":113,"date":"2007-12-04T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T04:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/blog\/none\/from-humble-beginnings"},"modified":"2007-12-04T21:16:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T04:16:00","slug":"from-humble-beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/2007\/12\/04\/from-humble-beginnings\/","title":{"rendered":"From humble beginnings&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So,<\/p>\n<p>For the last 20 or so years, if I ever wanted to really work out, or have a formal garb occasion, or in any size, way, shape or form hold in my hands a real sword&#8230; I&#8217;ve had to borrow one.<\/p>\n<p>This, soon, will no longer be the case. I have, based on lots of first-hand experience with them, decided that the time has finally come for me to commission a blade made by the Master Bladesmith, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atar.com\">Jim Hrisoulas<\/a>&#8230; Atar, the blacksmith of legend at Faire&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I have commissioned a cable sword, first of it&#8217;s kind to come out of his shop, after many, many daggers. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Today I recieved the first in a series of pictures as my blade is forged. Today&#8217;s task was to remove the protective coating on the cable strands prepatory to the welding of the cable:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/terrawolf.smugmug.com\/photos\/228869474-S.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/terrawolf.smugmug.com\/photos\/228869474-S.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>which must first be done by disassembling and then heating and scrubbing the bundled cables. It is from these humbling beginnings:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/terrawolf.smugmug.com\/photos\/228869486-S.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/terrawolf.smugmug.com\/photos\/228869486-S.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/terrawolf.smugmug.com\/photos\/228869495-S.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/terrawolf.smugmug.com\/photos\/228869495-S.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That will issue forth one of the finest swords a man could hope for.<\/p>\n<p>Part two, coming soon!<\/p>\n<p>Best,<\/p>\n<p>Mark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, For the last 20 or so years, if I ever wanted to really work out, or have a formal garb occasion, or in any size, way, shape or form hold in my hands a real sword&#8230; I&#8217;ve had to borrow one. This, soon, will no longer be the case. I have, based on lots &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/2007\/12\/04\/from-humble-beginnings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From humble beginnings&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,154,235,250,283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}