
2014: Year of the Free Range Chicken
2014 was a very successful year for Mark Gilsdorf, Artist-Blacksmith, LLC. This was my first full year working full-time as a blacksmith, after seven years puttering around as a hobby. As my friend Lisa likes to say, I’m “free range” now. I was able to develop a number of small forged objects for sale, some of which proved to be very popular. One-hundred and ninety-one bottle openers found their way into people’s homes this past year, one-hundred and twenty-seven of them with