[ Ian's smile is muted, a little wry, but unmissable all the same. He hasn't shown many people this - the ones that he has aren't in his life anymore (not a surprise to him). The few times he's gotten the chance to display it have always gone a little something like this, and while he hasn't done anything to earn the awe it's still a little gratifying to see nonetheless.

He gives the hilt a little wave, take it. ]

Yeah. It's one component, small, simple. As long as it's not much more complicated than that I can do it pretty consistently. You start mixing material and adding size or complexity and it taps out pretty quick.

[ But two solid-steel single piece knives shouldn't be hard. He could make a half dozen or so before they stopped forming and came out as fragmented, useless little pieces. Try that too many times and he can't make anything at all for a while. ]

So if you want a gun or something, that's not really in my wheelhouse. It's the bullets, mostly, the gunpowder isn't... familiar. Easy. Screwdrivers and steak knives I can do all day.

[ Which is why he doesn't consider it all that much better than actual engineering. He can only make piece parts with magic or whatever you wanna call it. When it comes to using them, assembling them, finding creative applications for them... that matters a hell of a lot more than just having them. ]