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Brisbane man Joel Hunter is forging a career as an armourer
When Brisbane man Joel Hunter finished school a few years back, he had plenty of pathways to choose from.
“I could go down the university pathway, that was all set up for me,” the 20-year-old told ABC Radio Brisbane.
“But I said, ‘You know what? I’m going to see if I can take this passion and turn it into something.'”
That passion was medieval history, and Joel has been hard at work forging a career as an armourer, sculping reproductions of historic pieces that knights wore hundreds of years ago.
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)“When I was a kid, you’d see knights and you’d see armour and you’re like, ‘That’s so cool, I wish I could swing a sword,'” Joel said.
“But as I got older, I…
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