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This month's Challenge is framed shark, to honor Shark Week.

Andrew bent and welded up wire and mounted it to a fancy light box and Kipling took coloured wire and made a pride shark with a copper wire background.

This month we talk about new tools and new sources for material and our esoteric eggels gets us laughing about great costumes of the past..

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Challenge will be posted for live voting on June 27, 2025

The July/August Challenge will be to create a frame for a thermometer.

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This month's Challenge is a garden decoration inspired by Alice in Wonderland.

Andrew forged a shepherd's hook with a cheshire cat face that hangs in front of a sign and Kipling made a cheshire cat face that watches over a spattering of other components that make up a bird bath and feeder..

This month our esoteric eggels gets us talking about our gardens and pets.

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Challenge will be posted for live voting on May 29, 2025

June’s Challenge will honor Shark Week and we are set to create Framed Shark art.

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This month's Challenge is to create a candle holder for a pile of old copper pipe.

Andrew created a feather candle stand with shiny feathers behind to reflect light and Kipling made a hinged tea light holder that all folds up to a nice sun decoration.

This month our esoteric eggels gets us talking about our musical talents and Andrew talks about his new small flypress.

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Challenge will be posted for live voting on April 25, 2025

May’s Challenge is set to create a garden decoration inspired by Alice in Wonderland.

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This time we recap our first season of podcasting.

Our favorite challenges and the challenges we might want to forget. Hear more detail about the challenges by the numbers.

We also get into a little bit more of our market sales and how these challenges help stock our tables and entertain both our customers and us.

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This month's Challenge is an original animal created by mashing up two or more other animals.

This challenge was inspired by a high school assignment and the fun had following March Mammal Madness (linked below). Andrew created a Koala Spider trying to make the creepy spider cute and Kipling made a Bat-Eared Falpion, combining a falcon and scorpion with bat ears.

This month our esoteric eggels and share our favorite smell memory and Andrew asks what piece of large equipment each wants.

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For all you March Mammal Madness go to https://libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalMadness

Challenge will be posted for live voting on March 24, 2025

April’s Challenge is set to use some used copper pile to create something new.

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This month's Challenge is an art piece inspired by the term “Wild City”.

This challenge stands out as just an art piece, when most of our creations have some type of function these purposes are just art. Andrew made a city covered by grass and dandelions he calls “Weeds above us” and Kipling made a copper tree as it up roots a house he calls “treed House”

This month our esoteric eggels and share our favorite wildlife sightings and we have chat about our current shop wonders and woe which oddly are magnets this time.

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Challenge will be posted for live voting on Feb 28, 2025

March’s Challenge is set to create a unique animal mash up.

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This month's Challenge is an original cast copper Monopoly piece.

We both had issues learning the new skills needed to create successful castings from melted copper. In the end Kipling made a sleigh a rustic Aladdin lamp and Andrew made a polished mini anvil.

As is now tradition we talk about some esoteric eggels and share our favorite pranks we have pulled and chat about our current shop wonders and woes.

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Challenge will be posted for live voting on Jan 27, 2025

February's Challenge is set to be an art piece based on the idea of “wild city”

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This month's Challenge is a sleigh shaped candy dish.

Kipling made a sleigh with a great tufted pillow seat out of copper and aluminum and Andrew made a sleigh from steel and struggled to find the inspiration on this project.

As is now tradition we talk about some esoteric eggels and share our favorite Christmas foods and Andrew asks what material other than metal that we want to make something from..

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Challenge will be posted for live voting on Dec 20, 2024

January’s Challenge is set to be a cast copper Monopoly piece.

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