The magic troll mailed me the other day to show off pics of her new blades. The one above is one I am really fond of: It´s Hildiswin (pig-of-war) by Petr Florianek (
www.gullinbursti.cz), Czech sword- and bladesmith whom I admire quite a lot. The blade is wrought iron / high carbon steel three-layer laminate, which is very cleanly accomplished. There´s a boar inlay in silver wire, the handle is carved antler and oak burr, and the carving of a boar on the butt is antler, too, as is the mounting on the sheath. Petr sold it for 160,00€, and it drove me mad!!!! The knife handles very well, light and nimble, albeit abit too light for my liking, but then it is a neck knife, and nothing wrong with that. Also check out this guy´s facebook pages, lots of pics to drool over: www.facebook.com/pages/gullinbursti. Or any such like. I am still not on facebook, for I am not overly fond of their corporate policy.
The other is a more decent photo of my own work I posted recently.
This is the common birch polypore, fomitopsis betulina, also known as birch bracket or razor strop. For a bushcrafter, it is a treasure ...
Maybe you know this feeling: The woods call you, call you out into their solemn embrace. They call you in your everyday business, in work ...
On Sunday, Kai, his girlfriend Marie and myself met to have a cuppa and a cake at the various smithies and museums in the Muttental. We f...
Cool thing about the Vic is that it is totally inspiring arsing around carving. Just occurred to me- sometimes you maybe want a gift for the...
Kai has done it again! When I was on a visit at his place recently, he presented me his newest project. 1.2842 steel, blade 76 mm long,...
Today I have reached another milestone in my learning. Just started my first fire with flint and steel. The striker I forged myself ages a...
This knife you might be familiar with. It has a blade out of the St. Jakobus pilgrim´s trail that runs near my home. The trail is virtually ...
This my latest conceptual work. I found another chisel in the woods, and on the detour, I met a fox in the moonlight... so I came up with...
Last weekend Martin from Ireland came visiting to do some forging and general horsing around;-), and yeah, here´s the story;-). Martin a...