Our story:
Strike while the iron is hot!
About The Dirty Smith Company
The DirtySmith® Company is a forge and fabrication design studio offering a range of design, forge and fabrication services to produce custom products.
Dirty Smith also teaches online, as well as leads workshops and demonstrations.
OUR APPROACH
Taking your concepts and inspiration, Rory uses his experience in building and design, draws inspiration from the early American “Arts and Crafts” philosophy and interpretation of the craftsman style to modern ironwork.
Custom Projects
An example of previous projects, but not limited to:
Custom Designed Fireplace tools,
FIreplace doors, Fireplace screens
Custom
hardware pulls
Custom Mirrors Security window/door grills
Forged decorative iron elements for wine cellars
Kitchen Range Hoods
Custom balusters for your railings
The Unspoken Philosophy of "Grit"
“Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.” -John Ortberg
"As psychologists have emphasized, achieving difficult, long-term goals requires the capacity for perseverance, or “grit.” We argue that grit is distinct from familiar philosophical notions like willpower and continence. Specifically, grit has an important epistemic dimension: quitting is often caused by a loss of confidence that continued effort will result in success. Correspondingly, successful exercises of grit often involve “epistemic resilience” in the face of setbacks suggesting that success is not forthcoming. We argue that resilient reasoning can be epistemically rational to some extent, though it depends in part on whether the agent’s circumstances involve severe material scarcity or oppression." -ASJC Scopus
Strike while the iron is hot!
Rory May
President / Designer / Blacksmith
Miss Emmy
Safety Inspector
Miss Molly
Marketing Director
Getting Involved in the Community
Rory has a history of participating in community events ranging from art shows, local news interviews, demos for public schools, public blacksmithing workshops/demonstrations, volunteering as a member of the Rocky Mountain Blacksmith Association board and newsletter editor, organizing/leading events across the United States ranging from: workshops in Colorado, Rochester and upstate New York, the New England Blacksmith Association conference in Vermont, and workshops in Virginia. 2019 Rory was invited to demonstrate a 3 day event forging iron at the Calgary Stampede in Calgary, Alberta, Canada where he produced a fire tool set that was auctioned at the event.
In 2014 Mike Rowe, host of CNN's TV Show Dirty Jobs, came to Dragon Forge LTD to produce an episode of "Somebody's Gotta Do It. Rory, Craig and Mr. Mike Rowe worked on the sign together for the show. Rory was given the task to design the sign for the logo and they built it that day.
Read an interview with Rory at: The Summit Daily
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