Norsk Skottbenk Union – Foreining for fremje av skottbenken, strykebenken og rettbenken
And you thought Wagner’s Ring Cycle was epic…. How better to celebrate marriage than with Viking helmets and shattered wine glasses? In this fourth and final installment, the plan was to make my ring from whatever gold was left after making her ring. But alas, I did not have enough gold left to make a whole second ring. I had two choices. Buy more gold, or make my ring out of something else.
I had contemplated this possibility some time ago and already knew my answer. Being a blacksmith, I thought it would be cool to forge my ring from steel and to inlay a thin band of the gold into the steel. I may well have opted for this even if I had had enough gold to make a second ring.
[Brief aria for teutonic tenor]—“Ode to My Scrap Pile.”
Norsk Skottbenk Union – Foreining for fremje av skottbenken, strykebenken og rettbenken