Aries Designs
Master Artemius Andreas Magnus (Mark Schwartz)
What I make: Custom jewelry, glass beads, stained glass, award medallions, lapidary (cabochons and soon faceting stones), and period replica pieces.
I take custom orders for pretty much anything I make. If there is something you would like made, I will be happy to work with you on the design so you get what you want.
A little background: I am a Laurel in the Barony of Delftwood and have been in the SCA for … a long time. I have been working in my crafts for over twenty years. I continue to learn and evolve my skills in new areas and techniques.
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Payment methods: Credit card, Paypal, check, cash
Sunshadow Design
Meet The Artist: Master John Michael Thorpe (MKA Page Steinhardt) has been working with metal since age 10. in 1987 he worked up from polisher to bench goldsmith in a wholesale trade shop, and then worked in high end jewelry stores doing repairs and custom fabrications as a bench jeweler for several years to refine the mechanics of the craft, while developing his own stylistic approach to goldsmithing. Utilizing traditional jewelry techniques, including repousse, solid fabrication, forging, sand casting and lost wax casting, he works primarily in 14 karat gold and sterling silver, but has added cast bronze as the price of precious metals skyrocketed to keep some of the work reasonably accessibly priced. In the last 15 years he started bringing those skills to making coronets, laurel wreaths, and other regalia for members of the SCA.
Decorative metal work is one of the oldest forms of art. Many of the designs are based upon historical pieces, updated with a contemporary flair and an eye towards new stone and metal combinations.
Custom work is really his specialty as he enjoys the collaborative process involved in working with clients to design custom pieces that combine their unique style with his artistic metal representations, so if you would like to create something extra special, Email info.sunshadowsdesign@gmail.com
One of his sidelines was making custom knives. This gained a lot of attention in May of 2016 when he won the History Channel competition bladesmithing show Forged in Fire. Suddenly bladesmithing was drawing a lot more attention than making coronets, then a run on the extreme cutting sports show “Knife or Death” brought sharp cutting swords into the public eye.
He began making fencing swords in 1987, when he started fencing in the Society for Creative Anachronism. He wasn’t able to find any well made fencing sword hilts on the market, so he made himself one. People started to ask him to make them swords, and eventually custom SCA list legal fencing swords and parts became a regular part of the business.
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Rencraft
Cool Craniums
Vessel Vixen
Gryphon’s Moon
