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=Tony Swatton= Tony Swatton is a blacksmith, jeweler and gemcutter best known for forging props for films and TV Shows while also making weapons and armour based on popular TV Shows, Movies, Video games and Anime, and also the creator of Sword and Stone website dedicated the different works that he has made throughout his career.

Background
Swatton is a self-taught Blacksmith. However, before working as a Blacksmith, he would instead cut gems. Starting at the age of 7, he would refer to himself as a "Gem Hound" or "Pebble Pup", by the age of 15 he had moved on to Silversmithing, Swatton then decided he wanted to work on more than just silver and gems, going as far as "pestering" Jody Samson to critique a knife that he had made with Samson explaining that the file was brittle and it would shatter, that it wasn’t the right metal or the right process on it. Samson would give Swatton tips on how to better his skills while still keeping in contact with one another between 1994-1998. By the age of 17 Swatton had begun to craft his own helmets. He was given the inspiration by visiting a renaissance fair, while watching another blacksmith make armour and hearing that it would take 1 or 2 years in lead time to be fully finished and ready. Swatton went home, replicated the other blacksmiths tools and crafted his own helmet. Around the age of 26 he opened his own store in "North Hollywood", stating that some of the first customers that he received were Euro Disney and Michael Jackson

Notable Works
One of Tony Swattons more notable crafts has been the crafting of Wolverine (comics) claws from the popular comic book "X-Men" published by Marvel having gained more than 2 million views on youtube. While also taking on many requests he hasn't been limited to only comic book weapons, he has also taken his chance to make weapons from a wide range of different mediums, these include Adventure Timea popular cartoon that is broadcasted on the Cartoon Network channel, creating Finn the Human's signature sword, HBO's popular TV series Game of Thrones creating Jaime Lannister's sword, Bleach(anime) a popular Japanese creating the main character Ichigo Kurosaki's sword Manga/Anime and Square Enix's massively popular Playstation 1 video game Final Fantasy 7 forging Cloud Strife's Buster Sword. In anticipation for the release of Assassins Creed IV Swatton had made a replica of a Cutlass and the staple Hidden blade (Assassins Creed) used by the various main characters featured in the games.

Film Credits
Swatton has been credited and even gone uncredited in many films and TV shows for his contribution to the props departments, making weapons or armour for them, some of the credited performances that he has been given are as follows :
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