I make strange things out of scrap metal

BorboroForge roughly means "filth-forge." The name comes from Borborophorba, an ancient epithet of Hekate usually translated as "eater of filth." I liked the idea of taking something discarded and turning it into something worth keeping, so that's what I do. Scrap metal becomes ritual tools, jewelry, blades, and the occasional weird little sculpture.

This site grew around the workshop. It's part gallery, part notebook, and part shelf full of reference books with scraps of paper sticking out of them. The metalwork is still at the center, but I also write about plants, historical magic, alloys, and whatever else I've fallen down a research hole about. Most of the tools here exist because I wanted to use them and couldn't find a version that worked the way I wanted.

What's here

The Gallery is where I keep photos of finished work: offering plates, jewelry, ritual tools, blades, and creatures cast in metal. The Custom Metalwork page explains commissions and the practical details. These are objects meant to be handled, so materials, size, finish, and how the thing actually feels matter more to me than fancy language about it.

Portland Wild Apothecary is my field guide to useful, edible, weedy, dye, fiber, and culturally interesting plants around Portland. It includes identification notes and a growing plant ID glossary. The Herbal First Aid Kit is the cautious end of that interest: what people actually keep around, what an herb may be useful for, where the evidence gets thin, and when the right answer is to get medical help.

The occult reference pages are less mystical fog machine, more usable map. There are tools for Hekate's epithets, magical correspondences, planetary magic squares, PGM pronunciation, Grammatomanteia, planetary hours, and Tarot Compressed. I built them to make dense or badly organized material easier to explore without pretending the uncertain parts are settled.

Then there's the plain shop-floor stuff: alloy recipes with notes about how the metals behave, and melting temperature tables for the days when my memory is less reliable than a chart. Which is most days involving a furnace.