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Viking utility knife
Some progress on my little utility Viking knife, 76x4-1,5 mm three-layer laminate file and spring steel blade, nice and slicey Scandi grind, silver mounting, reindeer antler and birchwood burr. The...
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Plan and broke
The plan was clear. My birthday had passed with the usual catastrophe, and I had just mopped up the shards and ruins of that what was left of my life afterwards as usual, so, in order to celebrate...
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Where there´s a will, there´s a way - and a fond thankyou to a load of friends
I wrote about my mishap recently. It was all my fault, really, of course. Of course, I could not afford a new frame. I had my phases, of course. At first, it was resignation. My bike stood in my attic...
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Grosses Messer-Update
I have been desperately in need to practice my swordsmithing abilities, so after talking to James Elmslie on the sword expo in Solingen last year and the lovely work of Jake Powning I felt inspired to...
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Rookie Ride, Foraging and cuppa coffee
It has been quite some time since I last offered a rookie training, and yeah, while it was stress that I gotted mobbed out of my own club for´t, I did not quite realize that I missed sharing knowledge...
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Into the twilight on a lunatic´s path
I tend to have only shitty days these days at work. Politics have always been somewhat psychologically challenged with a huge ego and stuff, but now it is nearing insane. But I know well it´s all my...
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A crossover design... for a Puukko
This is something I have in the works at the moment with some thoughts on knife design. The lecture on Puukko design by Anssi Ruusuvuori had my mind racing, and having looked at some modern Puukko...
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A rookie ride with catastrophes and cake and coffee...;-)
Two weeks ago we met again @Felsengarten in Hagen to get in some technical basics. The smiths and crafties seem to have developed an affinity for fat tires...;-) I claim to be innocent, no really, I...
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On the bench: Bushcraft Santoku and American Tanto
Now to something different: I was wanting to do a Santoku bushcraft design from laminate steel. This is in fact a first test on the design I made from Unimog spring steel, selectively tempered, 120x...
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Where I wander in silence there is no significance
The world has gone mad. PERIOD. I do not have anything else to say about this fact. Everyone knows it, and no one cares.And I find I get ever more detached from the madness. I simply cannot find it in...
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The quest for the Brakkersfelders Knopmetz and a lovely weekend with lovely...
It was long scheduled and thoroughly planned. We had arranged a lecture at our favourite ruin about the history of the local language, a dialect of Nether German, the "Plattdiütsch" still spoken by...
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New sheath for Úlenklawe
Here it is... I made a new sheath for Úlenkláwe, my "black handled knife". It is a dangler sheath to date, but may get some more attachments to be worn like a sgian achlais. 3 mm vegetable tanned...
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Progress on the sheath system for Úlenkláwe
Here´s an update on the sheath system for my Sica. It will be some kind of shoulder harness rig. I fitted the Paracord just for measure. The actual system will be made with handmade brass or steel...
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New sheath for a snack and allround bush knife
This is another simple sheath, for a snack and utility knife (the one that got stainless by accident ;-)). Nothing fancy, really, just plain vegetable tanned leather, lacquered with violin veneer and...
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Snufkin ride and that bastard cellphone
Feic, how I needed to get outside. But sometimes it´s hard to get your lame butt off the couch, as many of us know... so I was a bit late for a hike. So I originally had decided to cancel everything...
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Máandevvos es báren!
This is a project that has taken quite some time and energy to make-and was great fun to accomplish. It is a kind of talisman to me, for there is another unlikely Fimbulmyrk tale involved. Some of my...
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First try with a new camera to make a vid about Máandevos....
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A hike to Krenzer Hammer Schmiedefest (blacksmithing fair) 2016
It was that time of year again, and I had some time for a change. The fair at Krenzer Hammer ironforge, another historical smithy in the Ennepetal, which is still producing most excellent blacksmithing...
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Tomahawk for fun ;-)
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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Knives from way back then
We recently had a chat amongst us about progression and scrolls... and I thought about how I started. Sometimes it´s important to get back to do a reality check. These knives I forged in 1998 with a...
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