Though largely self-taught, Hardy acknowledges the work of modern masters Al Pacetti and Mark Drain, but he looks back as well, to such turn-of-the-century craftsman as the Tiffany company. Their influences inform Scott's drive to give contemporary expression to historic western forms.

It is through this amalgam of old and new he seeks to retrieve what has been lost to decades of mass-production and to recapture a time when the unique beauty of a thing was every bit as important as its utility and durability. c