Luke Proctor

I am an artist blacksmith. The techniques I use have been used by smiths for thousands of years all around the world. I use traditional forging techniques and joinery to create contemporary work. I start with metal cut to a per-determined length and then heat it in one of my forges, I use both coke and propane gas. I then use either my pneumatic power hammer or hand hammers at the anvil but most often I will use both. The majority of my tooling has been made by myself, I use different tool steels for hot cutting chisels, drifts, punches, and hammers. The style I have developed is in part inspired by the Danish Modern and Modern Scandinavian styles. I focus on keeping clean simple lines and forging every part of each piece to to shape the metal hot. The joinery becomes the aesthetic part of the piece. a focal point it is out front to be seen and can not be faked. Each piece I make represents hard honest work the is thought of to be sophisticated in its simplicity.