Melting Ice

Melting Ice

by | Mar 6, 2015 | Fixed-blades | 3 comments

Total length: 28,5 cm (11.2 inch) Blade: 15 cm (5.9 inch) Handle: 20 000 year old mammoth tusk and hand-engraved reindeer antler. Sheath: Rawhide leather. This knife is sold While the snow and ice outside my windows is slowly melting away in the earliest spring ever...
Go Viking on a sheath!

Go Viking on a sheath!

by | Mar 2, 2015 | Video, Words from André | 2 comments

To follow up my last post about what tools I use when I work my leather sheaths, I rigged the camera to show you how it looks like when I actually uses them. The leather is a piece of moist Rawhide leather. You can see the final result in this post.
What’s in the leather-box?

What’s in the leather-box?

by | Feb 25, 2015 | Words from André | 0 comments

All sheaths I make is made from Rawhide leather. Making a Scandinavian knife-sheath does not require much tools, the trick is to learn how the leather works and do the right measurements to fit the knife properly. The leather is always tooled while wet and is, when...
Looking back

Looking back

by | Feb 22, 2015 | Fixed-blades | 1 comment

I have updated my gallery-plugin (very neat:)) and also added allot of detailed pictures on different projects throughout the years and this one got my attention. Do you remember this little fella from 5 years back? Made in 2010, (all finished beginning of 2011,...
Wave illusions

Wave illusions

by | Feb 20, 2015 | Engravings, Fixed-blades | 3 comments

The mind can easily be fooled by optical illusions were lines and shadows tricks us into thinking something is different from reality. I have played with the thoughts of engraving something that “bend” reality a little bit and gives the knife an extra...