An episode about the tools I personally use for leathercraft.

Art has objective parameters, and beauty is much the same. This is part 2 of a 3 part miniseries on the objective standards given for the crafts specifically and art generally. 

Art and beauty have objective standards. This is a miniseries on that reality, and I relate it all back to blacksmithing and leathercraft, eventually. 

In this episode I give a recap from a day's experience at the Feast of the Hunter's Moon in Tippecanoe County, Indiana. From there I discuss a portion of the book "The Art of Blacksmithing" about how the blacksmith is gone in the sense of a necessary community member but survives through artistic participants and preservationists today. 

The armor of God and the old armorers and leathermakers are discussed. 

Here I give two more positive aspects of young men being given the opportunity to undergo an apprenticeship. 

In this first episode of a little miniseries, I discuss the need young men have for apprenticeships. 

Do things well! 

In this episode I talk about some of the positive aspects of a renewed desire for things handmade and homegrown while also discussing the pitfalls therein.