His history teacher there, Juansher Jurkhadze, was a collector of antique art and sparked Laghidze's interest in swords and armor.

In addition to his studies, he took a course on Georgian weaponry, researched traditional armor and swords, and regularly visited the Simon Janashia Museum of Georgia.

His work was praised by experts such as Kote Cholokashvili, art critic Guram Gabashvili, and artist Temur Sulkhanishvili.

[4][5] After completing his university studies in 1989, Laghidze started working as a metal restorer at the National Monument Protection Service at the Open-Air Museum of Ethnography in Tbilisi.

His work was selected by the Ministry of Culture for exhibitions at the Artists' House in Tbilisi and a show in Burg Hasseg/Hall in Tyrol, Austria.

He carried out restoration projects and researched traditional methods for making Georgian steel, known as bulati, used to manufacture high-quality weapons.

This caught the attention of Jan Piet Puype, curator of the Dutch Army Museum in Delft, which led to major commissions.

[2][3] In 2022, an overview exhibition of his work was held at the Markiezenhof in Bergen op Zoom, titled The Iron Secret Keeper.