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Actually, I forgot what the site was called and took forever to find it again xD I'll be looking through all these posts carefully - some real good advice here! In the meantime (learning to be a blacksmith isn't exactly an overnight thing) I'll be paying a local blacksmith to make the stands for me. (no volunteers, I already found him! :D)

Hello everyone - much Googling has led me here! I currently work with a store through which I sell pendants and rings - these are made by designing them in a computer and then 3D printing them in Stainless Steel. However, this method is limited in its application, and prohibitively expensive, especially when making something that ought to be quite simple (relatively speaking) to do the 'honest' way. I don't know how many Skyrim players we have here, but I'm attempting to recreate the 'horn candles' that populate the game. Images below. I have my wax, I have my cow horns, and I was planning to 3D print plastic 'holders' and paint them to look iron. The results of the iron spray paint, while certainly fine for their purposes, simply do not satisfy me. I love authenticity and want to deliver it. With that in mind, can someone direct me where to begin learning? Due to both the store's rules on handmade and my own stubborn pride, it won't suffice to simply have someone else make them. The thing I love about handmade and doing it yourself is that the designs will lead you to skills and opportunities you wouldn't have considered otherwise. I do not intend to simply learn how to do this so that I can make this one product; being skilled in blacksmithing will open a whole new world to me that I intend to use to its fullest.