Hello. I’m Owen Phillips - Blacksmith and Bladesmith at Gate Foot Forge. Fifteen years ago I finished a degree in Industrial Design, where I built on a childhood spent tinkering and a particularly helpful High School design and technology department, and came out with the skills to visualise and create beautiful products and a great deal of practical fabrication and machining skills… and then accidentally slung it all away to spend a decade and a half sitting on my arse staring at a screen as a graphic designer. Then, during late 2019 and into 2020 I again accidentally transitioned into being a full-time professional Blacksmith - basically as a hobby that got out of control!