Not the best picture, but gives a basic idea - the forge is a small wooden shed built against the gable of the crofthouse. Obviously, it's cold in this picture: when I have it hot (which takes a while) I'm too focussed on forging to think about photographing it! You can just make out the anvil in the foreground: this belonged to my great-grandfather, a smith in Argyll. Bob managed to get it back from his family's ancestral farm near Campbelltown. The Calor gas bottles on the extreme right are for the kitchen cooker, and nothing to do with the forge, although I hope at some point soon to get a gas forge as well as this basic coal one. I like working with the current forge, but it takes a long time to get up to temperature...

The main workshop. Again, not the best picture ever, partly because of the extremely bright north light from the big window, partly because it needs a good tidy here! But actually, this is how it mainly is when I'm working... You can see our other anvil, and part of the hammer collection, on the left. The lathe is on the right, and the gas bottle for the soldering torch in the middle. (That is an artifical leg - Bob's back-up peg-leg - behind it.) You can also see, beside the window, some old designs pinned up (behind them is a beaten copper phoenix head, from a weathervane Bob made years ago). This is not the only workshop, we have another with the grinding machines and other heavier machinery...