Had some diamond sharpener lying around and figured I´d give it a new appearance. You can turn it over and have a strop also that can be fixed with the screw-on ferrule. The strop I roughened up a bit.
Handle is vine - infested birchwood. I like the rustic appearance and I think I will make a knife handle in that style also... it´s just a bit difficult to find a suitable piece for the hand, but this one came along quite nicely...
Those are the adventures of Mr. Fimbulmyrk, in bushcraft and blacksmithing, mountainbiking and hiking, reenactment, writing, singing, dancing, stargazing and having a piece of cake and a coffee. Pray have a seat and look around you, but be warned - the forest´s twilight is ferocious at times.
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This is part of my not exactly tiny collection of German hunting knives, representatives of a very distinct and ancient style of knife. Y...
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Now, this was hardcore. On Sunday I had two demos: First in the Bethaus smithy in Witten, and then it was our traditional Sunday hammer-in ...
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On request I am doing a personal evaluation of a very classic bushcraft combination. The famed Roselli hunter and carpenter´s knife. I pur...
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I had found an old graphite electrode in the woods and thought I would like to try to make a pen after the concept by Konrad Gessner (https:...
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I finished those two knives the other day and thought I´d give you some decent pics. Both are made from spring steel, with a selective te...
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Last Saturday several institutions in Schwelm met for a bit of care work for a site where we planted underbrush as a hideout for roe deer an...
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So, I went for a brief stroll and stumbled across this piece of tempered and rotten saw blade steel. I figured i´d try a bit of "survi...
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My Nessie is coming along quite nicely... seems my strand of bad luck has run out.I like it so far. It´s not perfect, as usual, but I have ...
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On the bench... with a lousy pic by my old camera... a tomahawk I made for fun throwing. The head is spring steel, haft is yew....
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In the thicket, under the crescent moon... the fox is hiding on its prowl. In the dark soil, rich and of musky scent, a bar o...