Tony swatton biography
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Tony Swatton
Tony Swatton is a British-American blacksmith and gemcutter from Hammersmith, London, England. He is best known for creating props for films and television programmes. He was also the host of the popular webseries, Man at Arms.[1]
Biography
[edit]Swatton is a self-educated blacksmith and a trained jeweller.[2] When he was young, he used to cut gems and later expanded his skillset to include silversmithing. When he was 15, he met Jody Samson who had worked on the Conan the Barbarian film, and started to swap gems with Samson for knives. Unable to afford a knife, Swatton made one out of a file and showed it to Samson. Samson told him that it would break easily, as he hadn't used the right metal or type of treatment.[3]
When he was 17, Swatton attended a renaissance fair where he observed another blacksmith making armour. Swatton then made copies of the blacksmith's equipment and used them to make his own helmet. When he was 26, he
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Tony Swatton
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His credits formgivning character-defining accoutrements and apparel for feature film include, HOOK, BLADE I, II & III, THE maskering OF ZORRO, HIGHLANDER: slutskedet av ett spel eller en process, THE SCORPION KING, mästare AND COMMANDER, THE gods SAMURAI, DAREDEVIL, VAN HELSING, HELLBOY, THE LEGEND OF ZORRO and the first 3 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN films, among many others.
Located in Burbank, CA, Sword & Stone was founded over 20 years ago bygd Master Blacksmith, Tony Swatton. Much more than a full service blacksmith shop, it has become the trusted source for handcrafted, custom designed and historically accurate pieces. Sword & Stone specializes in built to beställning edged weapons, armour and props for the television, film, music,
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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:57, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
Tony Swatton
[edit]Created by Tregaurd (talk), The C of E (talk). Nominated by The C of E (talk) at 21:20, 15 November 2013 (UTC).
- There's still close paraphrasing here (and relying only on DupDet isn't the best idea): compare for example "the knife was brittle and it would shatter since it wasn’t the right metal and didn't have the right process on it" with "the file was brittle and it would shatter, that it wasn’t the