That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for May 23, 2019

“Will I get my money back if that sword doesn’t kill the dragon?”

“I don’t know guys, it looks too pointy to me. I might hurt some one with it”

Oh my stars you boys are sooo buff!

“Quick, scratch my back! A little higher! Ahhhhhhh, that’s it. Thanks. “

Yes, yes, I wanted a sword; but does it have to require all that banging?

Forged in Fire – Pilot episode.

“Can you make the handle red to match my cape?”

The Weapon repair shop – swords fixed while you wait.

Glock perfection

..and there in the blacksmith’s lair/ Wotan had Hephaestus prepare/ the merciless blade/ with which would be “spayed”/ any fool who crack’d wise ’bout his hair !

No no no! You heathens have no sense of rhythm at all. Let’s take it from the top, and this time try to clang the hammer on the UP beat!

Guy at far right, “This job blows.”

Wearing this skirt makes me feel stabby.

“Make a sword for another pretty boy. That’s all we do anymore, make a sword for another pretty boy. I’m outa here come payday.”

Verdi finds inspiration for the Anvil Chorus.

I like the rhythm of your hammer. " You put your right hand in. You put your tight hand out. You put your right hand in and you shake it all about….."

Apparently Hauschild was thoroughly into the Nibelung sagas. Here we have Siegfried in Regin’s forge. Problem: Siegfried and Regin aren’t in the same story. The story about Regin involves Sigurd, not Siegfried. Looks as though somebody’s got the title wrong over at Wikipedia Commons.

“The sword’s fine, but you in the back, I said hold the anchovies.”

O. M. G. I need tableware for 12 by tonight and you’re still working on the first butter knife!

Completion of the new swords for the circus progressed slowly, because the sword-swallower kept wanting to “test” them.

Looks like they have a great pizza oven…

" Remember, when you’ve finished your signature blade, our panel of judges will put it through rigorous testing for strength, sharpness, and durability in a kill test on a ballistic dummy, an antler chop, and the apple slice. "

Cease all productivity until the questions about my inability to lead have stopped.

On a too practical note…. Glock’s have a plastic frame, which isn’t forged. A metal frame 1911 with wood grips is possible, though.

Siegfried at Regin’s forge: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Siegfried_dans_la_forge_de_Regin.jpg 

(best viewed by Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this painting (may be a fresco; I’m awaiting word from its current-location – File information is in flux), including a Description (points to a much clearer, though watermarked, image).

http://www.askart.com/artist/Wilhelm_Hauschild/11038541/Wilhelm_Hauschild.aspx 

has info about the artist. Other than what’s perhaps indirectly pointed to by the first URL: 

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Hauschild_%28Maler%29 

(again in German that Chrome can automatically translate) and links it points to, I was unable to find other info about this artist (that Chrome could automatically translate). Perhaps those who read German can find more. This is the first work by him used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2208 (May 22, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Now remember that this one is for John Bolton, so it has to look really grand when the old boy waves it about. Which means you should not sharpen the blade!

A glock en no spiel?

Oooh, this sword is so shiny. No one will notice that this dress makes my butt look big.

The sword is nearly finished, one more heat cycle and I will have to figure out which of these buff guys I will plunge it into to for the hardening affect.

hold on smithy is that valerian steel? I have dragons to kill.

blacksmith: I wear this cloth around my waist so the sparks don’t burn my “dagger”.if you know what I mean.

“Is it true blondes have more fun?”

Though we don’t get to see them plunging burning swords into slave bodies to cool them. They cooled faster than in water. Must have been the nitrogen in the living bodies. If it were true.