Your first question may be “why ‘The Forgery‘, doesn’t a blacksmith work in a ‘smithy’?”.
The answer, of course, is yes. The workshop of a blacksmith has traditionally been called a smithy. However, I really, really don’t like that term. I’m not sure why, but it irks me for some reason.
So when it came time to choose a domain name for this site, I had to think of something different. A lot of smiths use ‘The Something-or-Other Forge’ (i.e. Great Oak Forge, Running Deer Forge, or whatever). That’s fine, but I couldn’t think of an appropriate Something-or-Other that seemed to fit, and that was available.
Others use ‘Something-or-Other Ironworks‘. Again, the same problem as above. ‘Ironworks’ also seems a bit too industrial / large-scale for what I’ll be doing. And besides that, such names are all too often used by fabricators, not just by smiths.
For the longest time, I just couldn’t think of anything – and then ‘The Forgery’ just popped in my head one day, and I liked it. I think it’s a bit of a whimsical play on words. My long term goals also include doing restoration work, and doing replicas of period hardware. If I do end up doing that type of work, perhaps I can market my reproductions as “Authentic Forgeries“.
What do you think?
