Greg Ramsey
Makes swords, drinks beer, dances with wolves.
Greg Ramsey’s soul is sword shaped. From his first reading of The Lord of the Rings to his first experience wielding (foam) swords with friends in the woods outside his childhood home, Greg’s world has been filled with blades and battle cries. Greg spent most of his 20s and 30s performing at the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire as knight, knave, pirate, and king. As a gifted actor-combatant and certified teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors and Certified Fight Director with the Society of Canadian Fight Directors, Greg honed his skill with blades and trained others in the art of war. It was only natural that his path would eventually lead to forging. A few beers with his friend Eitri led to the birth of the Drunken Smithy. Now Greg spends his days bending steel to his will in the fiery forges of the Drunken Smithy. And it is awesome!
Eitri Jones
Bends the elements to his will to make mad, beautiful creations.
Eitri made his first knives and swords when he was but a young lad. After his first taste of the steel he was hooked, and soon took to learning welding and other forms of metal working. Eitri graduated from California University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Chemistry. Recently he has been giving blacksmithing demos at the New Jersey and Pennsylvania Renaissance Faires.
He is a builder and fixer, but mostly mad scientist. He likes to make beautiful powerful things. Slightly obsessed and always ready for a the next crazy project, we are never sure if he is drunk or just crazy.
Nick
Nick has been forging at the Drunken Smithy on and off for almost a decade. His journey with the smithy began through a quickly-made friendship with owners Eitri and Greg at the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire. With a background in machining, he initially helped with G and M coding, and ended up sticking around to lend a hand on other projects. Over the years, he’s made many axes, swords, daggers, and more!
Currently, he serves as the Training Manager for the instructors who teach the forging workshops at Drunken Smithy. Between teaching classes and instructors or working on historical pieces and fantasy-inspired weapons, you can find him in the Mead Hall playing games and sampling meads and ciders on tap!
Sean
Sean got interested in blacksmithing while watching the demos at Colonial Williamsburg and the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire. Having a love of high fantasy, Dungeons and Dragons, and heavy metal music, Sean completed vo-tech programs for metal fabrication and machining as well as various blacksmithing workshops eventually taking his first bladesmithing class with Greg in 2016 at Drunken Smithy. He eventually saved up and bought a home forge where he and his friends practiced smithing on and off for years, always having a great time.
Sean now works as one of the lead instructors at Drunken Smithy. When not in class, Sean can be found forging skullys or fantasy-inspired swords, axes, knives, and more! He is also one of the axe throwing hosts and co-hosts the Drunken Smithy Axe Throwing League.
Christian
Christian got his start at The Smithy as multiple instructors have, as a student. Having always wanted to work steel, Christian made a simple offer, “You teach me to work steel, and I can work precious metals for The Smithy.” Starting with the creation of the Silver Ring Class, they worked and trained until he was capable of leading classes himself.
Christian’s start in metalworking, as he likes to put it, is a bit of a long story. It started during his very last semester of high school where he took a Metals & Jewelry class. Putting words to feelings, Metalworking clicked with him, and he went on to college. There, he took every Metals and Jewelry class offered. Leaving college, Christian then went on to wedding/luxury & jewelry repair for about 2 years before joining Drunken Smithy as their Singing Silversmith. He can be heard sometimes in his workshop singing to the beat of his own hammer.
Libby
Libby Jones is a copper smith and instructor for copper and jewelry classes as well as an axe-throwing host. Her parents, Eitri (Co-Owner) and Lyndsay (Office Manager), are her bosses, so she doesn’t know whether she gets in more trouble than other smiths or less. When not tinkering away at the shop, she’s doing theater or tending to shop dog, Honey Mead.
Honey
Woof Woof! Honey Mead welcomes you to the smithy as our sociable Shop Dog. She gets her name from our popular mead drinks sold at the Mead Hall. Honey is fully Golden Retriever and also fully fed – don’t be fooled by her puppy dog eyes while you eat your forge roasted sausage!
