Need help making a decision.

[m_brothers]

I'm trying to come up with a name for my smithy. Any names or ideas would be helpful.

So far, the best ones I've got are

silver creek forge
gray wolf forge
white wolf forge

[RainsFire]

Shmiti's smithy?
Honking chicken furnace!!
The hot place!

I dunno man, I think its something a person has to think up themselves..
your's sound good

[m_brothers]

only problem with scf is that i wont always be by it, as in i will most likely move as i get older.

[the_sandy_creek_forge]

that's not the ONLY problem with SCF. The other problem is that I AM SCF!!!!

I thought the same thing when I chose Sandy Creek Forge.....but then I realized that even if I ever did find a place in town for the forge.... Sandy Creek Forge still has a nice rustic ring to it, whether it's by the creek or not. But yeh, like rainsfire said, it's kind of a personal thing.

-Aaron @ the SCF

[dief]

Pick a name that fits you and, all else being equal, has a good marketing ring to it.

I selected Desert Rat Forge. I live out in the desert and friends have referred to me as a desert rat for years. Around here "desert rat" evokes the image of a unique "excentric" crusty old fart. I play up the part for clients. I even have two burros that greet folks that come to my shop.

[Finnr]

I use Finnr Bjornsson Studios, Finnr Bjornsson is my SCA name and most people know me by it.
Finnr / Art

[m_brothers]

Okay. Lol Aaron, I forgot that your initials so to speak are SCF, gonna have to think about this one. hehe.

I like grey.....and my family like silver....so i'lll make my decision soon i hope.

[blubrick]

If it's a decision you are having difficulties with, can I recommend that you utilize a digital decision maker?

This is a round metallic device composed of copper and nickel, often bearing the images of an eagle on one face and a certain distinguished gentleman on the other. You quite possibly have several in your pocket right now.

Cast it toward the heavens and recite the following arcane incantation: "Heads it's Grey - Tails it's Silver!". The gods will smile and when your cupronickel disk comes to rest, you will find your decision has been made for you.

[m_brothers]

lol, blubrick, good idea, im gonna go do that right now.

[mcraigl]

Ah.. I was wondering about this same thing and ran some stuff past Mark Aspery about why he doesn't have some cool sounding name, or a cool looking touchmark. His response was that when somebody sees a piece of work that he's done he wants them to know that it was Mark Aspery that made it. That's why his touchmark is Aspery. Rather than some cool sounding name, or design or whatever. The more I thought about it, the more it made sense to me. I guess I'd rather have folks be amazed by, or talk about, or muse over my work and the quality of it rather than the cool / catchy name of my smithy or how novel my touchmark is. So for now, my touchmark will be my initials.