Just a quick update on what is up to now: Arm ring from table cutlery...
Another one from bronze...
This one I found in the forest in a very strange manner: I followed two wild pigs into a holly thicket, and they just looked at me and began digging in the ground, looked at me again and went on their merry way... where they had dug, there was a junkheap of an old farmhouse, and there it was I found this piece of silver. Of course I had to punch a Celtic wild boar into it...
Top to bottom: Three-layer laminate, Damascus, three layer laminate blades with reindeer antler, birchwood burr and bog oak from a mine in Witten.
...and a blacksmith´s knife from spring steel. That did not turn out too well....
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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Sitting beside the creek, I brought myself some aged yew for a coat hanger. The branch needs to have another branch forking away asymmetri...
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I had some HSS steel (DMo5) lying around, pre-hardened to 64HRC and gave it a go to make some carving knives from it. Now you often hear t...
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Some time ago I took out the old sewing kit. I had this felted wool cloth lying around not doing anything for ages, and I wanted to save i...
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Came across a tree full of wonderful oyster mushrooms and took home some of them. I gave them a quick boil and boiled some red lentils (ab...
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You all have read my post about the Knifemaker´s Fair in Solingen Klingenmuseum which...
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This is a very traditional knife from Solingen. In Solingen it is called a Hippekniep or Notschlachter (emergency butcher's knife), but...
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The other day I came across some wild bamboo that is invasive to Germany, so out came the pocket knife. I sawed off a section, carved off...
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It is a bit difficult to me at the moment. I had to move out of the smithy again, so no blacksmithing at the moment. I had been betrayed ...
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At my recent visit to Solingen I also dropped by the Otter knives booth. Now they were very persuasive;-) and I got this beautiful tradit...