Blacksmith Basics: Armor Edition; Thursday, Second Period [08/18].

[special_rabbit]

"Well, everyone," said Amaya, with a nod, once it was time to get class started...and, subsequently, finished, for the semester, "today's our last class, so we'll be going over the three finishing steps of armor work, which is joining, polishing, and finishing. They're relatively simple concepts, so it shouldn't take too much time, and then it's pretty much your time to do what you need to do to get your pieces close to finished. Making a piece of armor's a bit more involve, in general, than the daggers we would have been making in a weapons-focused class, so if you find yourself still without much of a piece by the end of the class, don't worry about it too much. If you're set on finishing, you can always swing by and work on it here at the forge, I certainly don't mind, but, even if you don't, at least you'll be walking away from here with a few new techniques under your belt, whether you decide to pursue it further or not.

"Of course, any lingering questions you might have about the processes, the techniques, or even blacksmithing as a career or an art, I'll be happy to field those, too, but first, let's take a look at what's typically needed in the last stages, although, really, they're fairly self-explanatory by the name, so you probably know what's about to come up next."