Things can get even better though, especially when the Discworld Master combines everything in one, together with some magical thunderbolt iron. What you get is one DIY-Sword.
With help from his friend Jake Keen — an expert on ancient metal-making techniques — the author dug up 81kg of ore and smelted it in the grounds of his house, using a makeshift kiln built from clay and hay and fuelled with damp sheep manure.
Pratchett, who has Alzheimer’s disease, also said he had thrown in “several pieces of meteorites — thunderbolt iron, you see — highly magical, you’ve got to chuck that stuff in whether you believe in it or not”.
After days of hammering the metal into bars, he took it to a blacksmith, whom he helped to shape it into a blade, which was finished with silverwork.
Source: News.com.au.
You don’t have to hire a henchman anymore now if you urgently want to get rid of the lover of your g/f or b/f. Help comes in form of this handy, DIY guillotine.
