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This month's Challenge is to use metal to create a bat decoration that includes hinges in the piece somewhere.

Kipling used repousse and chasing to form a bat out of copper adding a lever and spring to his piece to make an automatic opening action. Andrew made a metal bay with hinged wings, cuter and with brass brushing on the inside to reflex a hidden candle.

This month we talk about where we are and what our goals are as makers. Our esoteric eggel gets us talking about our favorite monsters.

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Challenge will be posted for live voting on November 6 2025

The November’s Challenge will be to create a collection of three unique birds that all go together as a set.

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This month's Challenge is to use metal to make a mirror into a piece of loon themed art.

No one wants the bad luck of breaking a mirror and this one has us both on edge.

Kipling used repousse and chasing to form a loon into a piece of copper adding cutouts to show the mirror underneath. Andrew made a thick frame for his mirror in order to reflex the forged metal waves while adding a polished loon on the mirror.

This month we talk about where we get inspiration and form our ideas and our esoteric eggel gets us talking about our favorite reality tv shows.

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Challenge will be posted for live voting on Sept 29 2025

The October Challenge will be to create a piece of Bat decoration that includes at least one hinge for movement.

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This month's Challenge is to make a unique thermometer.

Who really uses thermometers anymore anyway… we each broke a few glass thermometer bulbs building our version of a unique thermometer..

Andrew made a metal daisy-like flower and the leaves come out at the correct temperatures and Kipling took fun weather related sayings and made them into temperature makers out of brass and copper.

This month we talk about what we do with errors and our esoteric eggel gets us resighting nursery rhymes.

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Challenge will be posted for live voting on Aug 28, 2025

The September Challenge will be to create a loon decoration that includes a mirror.

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This month's Challenge is framed shark, to honor Shark Week.

Andrew bent and welded up wire and mounted it to a fancy light box and Kipling took coloured wire and made a pride shark with a copper wire background.

This month we talk about new tools and new sources for material and our esoteric eggels gets us laughing about great costumes of the past..

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Challenge will be posted for live voting on June 27, 2025

The July/August Challenge will be to create a frame for a thermometer.

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This month's Challenge is a garden decoration inspired by Alice in Wonderland.

Andrew forged a shepherd's hook with a cheshire cat face that hangs in front of a sign and Kipling made a cheshire cat face that watches over a spattering of other components that make up a bird bath and feeder..

This month our esoteric eggels gets us talking about our gardens and pets.

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Challenge will be posted for live voting on May 29, 2025

June’s Challenge will honor Shark Week and we are set to create Framed Shark art.

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This month's Challenge is to create a candle holder for a pile of old copper pipe.

Andrew created a feather candle stand with shiny feathers behind to reflect light and Kipling made a hinged tea light holder that all folds up to a nice sun decoration.

This month our esoteric eggels gets us talking about our musical talents and Andrew talks about his new small flypress.

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Challenge will be posted for live voting on April 25, 2025

May’s Challenge is set to create a garden decoration inspired by Alice in Wonderland.

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This time we recap our first season of podcasting.

Our favorite challenges and the challenges we might want to forget. Hear more detail about the challenges by the numbers.

We also get into a little bit more of our market sales and how these challenges help stock our tables and entertain both our customers and us.

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This month's Challenge is an original animal created by mashing up two or more other animals.

This challenge was inspired by a high school assignment and the fun had following March Mammal Madness (linked below). Andrew created a Koala Spider trying to make the creepy spider cute and Kipling made a Bat-Eared Falpion, combining a falcon and scorpion with bat ears.

This month our esoteric eggels and share our favorite smell memory and Andrew asks what piece of large equipment each wants.

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For all you March Mammal Madness go to https://libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalMadness

Challenge will be posted for live voting on March 24, 2025

April’s Challenge is set to use some used copper pile to create something new.

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