Bjornsvefn – New custom Viking sword
Huge project I have been working on for months. It´s a Viking inspired custom sword fully engraved with a ebony handle and a etched pattern welded steel blade. A fully worked rawhide leather sheath. It´s name is Bjornsvefn, an old Norse name translated to 'bear...
Black iron
New year new knives. I present to you Black iron!
White carved
I hope you all have had a great summer. Myself is still recovering from all the rest I have received and it might still be some time before I´m back to full capacity. Here is a fresh knife for your eyes only!
Engraved blade
Fully engraved blade - pretty big.
Eye of the gods
My latest knife is a fully engraved knife with stainless steel sides and a Viking ship knife stand. Hand made from start to finish,
Steel engraving on bolster
Steel engravings design
Today I have been engraving some small details on a steel bolster. Here is how the design looks at the drawing table.
Building a stand
Building a knife stand. Stainless steel and engravings... nice:)
Welding damascus billets my way – part 2
This is my technique when welding many pattern welded steel billets at the same time. It´s of course not how everybody does it. Some may even disagree with me but I have found this way to be the most efficient both regarding time and resources.
Engraved blade
Welding damascus billets my way – part 1
This is my technique when welding many pattern welded steel billets at the same time. It´s of course not how everybody does it. Some may even disagree with me but I have found this way to be the most efficient both regarding time and resources.
A tale of ice and fire in April
Engraving day
Showing a sword blade
Sword film
A quick presentation we did showing one of my handmade swords. This particular one was a huge engraving project with a fully engraved stainless steel handle. Please give us a break regarding the non matching cloths - the filming was done very quickly in our yard.
Vendel inspired sword
I do not do historical replicas but I´m more then often inspired by craftsmen of the past. Here is a sword clearly inspired by the Vendel era (pre Viking) of Scandinavia.
Balders bowie
New large American bowie style knife with a norse design theme. Total length: 35cm / 13.77 inch Blade length: 22cm / 8.66 inch Blade: Handforged camouflage damascus carbon steel blade Guard: Forged and hardened carbon steel guard. Front bolster: Hand engraved...
Revolver grip gun
Here is something pretty different. A gun-grip knife looking like a revolver with a D-guard. 5 bar multibar twist steel, etched braids. Fully engraved stainless steel handle with copper inlays. Rawhide leather sheath. Total length: 40,5 cm (15.9 inch)
Vallheim.com Online
My little side-project is finally online. www.vallheim.com
Four custom knives avalible for sale
I added four new custom knives to my brand new webb shop. Check out the shop here.
Vallheim
The first prototypes of my grand jewelry project is finally in my hands! I can only say that they beats even my high expectations:) I can´t even start explaining how much work that’s involved creating a product like this but now I'm almost...
Hardening sword blade
Large fixed blade
Fully engraved hand-made knife with hand forged mosaic blade, truly packed with all the goodies from my arsenal of skills. The blade is a handforged 5 bar mosaic damascus construction with a hollow grinded cutting edge, all made out of Uddeholm 20C and 15N20 tool...
Pendants
I´m finally done with my first model of a coming jewelry collection I´m working on. I´m only writing this to get your attention when it´s some steps left to a finished product, but I´m very happy I made it this far. If I were a novice in 3D modeling before I can...
Fixed damascus knife avalible
Here is a large fixed blade knife available for purchase. It´s a hand forged 3 bar damascus blade with explosion edges and twist middle section. A mammoth front bolster makes up the handle, together with stabilized spruce wood and green colored stabilized Buckey wood....
Fixed blade
Here is a large fully engraved fixed blade. It´s a hand forged sandwich blade with a carbon steel core and stainless steel sides. Sides are fully engraved stainless steel, all in my Viking-inspired knot-pattern with textured copper overlays. Rawhide leather sheath....
Backlock folder
Here is a large fully engraved back-lock folder. It´s a hand forged sandwich blade with a carbon steel core and stainless steel sides. Sides are fully engraved stainless steel, all in my Viking-inspired knot-pattern with textured copper overlays. The design is my...
Spirits of the earth
I have done very few matching knife-sets but now it´s time for another one. Roughness with some style I would say, where high contrast dramatic details meets clean lines. All handmade from scratch of course. It´s soon midnight here in Sweden and I have just watched...
Back from FicX Paris show
Back to the rainy Swedish summer with clouds of bloodsucking mosquito chasing me and my dog down the narrow forest paths at the mountain side behind my house. It feels nice breathing the clean Swedish country-side-air again - I´m clearly not a big-city guy; big crowds...
FicX Paris
Around 1 month left to the FicX Paris show and I´m starting to feel the stress. Got one fully engraved fixed blade soon done and a very nice backlock-folder lying on my bench. I really hope I manage to finish the folder. Regardless I think it will be as nice show as...
Sword in Progress
So, I have been making this sword for the last months. Still a long way to go, but it´s slowly starting to look like something. I don´t do historical replicas but you can see the historical influences in my work. This handle is clearly inspired from the Vendel era...
Use or art, your call
I do not always make dedicated art-knives, sometimes less is...
Work in progress
Right now It´s very quiet from me and that's not because I´m dead (despite the week with flue I had to suffer trough). I´m working on a bunch of very big projects including a full film-tutorial on how to make a Scandinavian sheath. Right now I have filmed over 107...
Looking for Jack
When it comes to displaying a knife, especially here on the internet, it can be extremely hard to...
Engraving steel
I can´t claim to be a veteran within steel-engravings - I have been doing it for about 1,5 years now and I´m still working to find my place and my style withing this very special line of trade. The summer of 2013 master engraver David Riccardo from the US came to...
Melting Ice
While the snow and ice outside my windows is slowly melting away in the earliest...
Go Viking on a sheath!
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?
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
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
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 level of detail...
Nordic Dream
This knife was my first fully engraved blade. I have been doing highly detailed dramatic pattern welded blades for a very long time, and it do feels nice to make something different. The blade is a laminate blade with stainless steel sides and a carbon steel cutting...
Purple heart
Purple Heart Total length: 27cm (10.6 inch) 3 bar handforged pattern-welded blade. Stabilized purple and blue birch and natural colored mammoth bone. Hand tooled leather sheath.
Launching a new webbpage
Times are changing and so must also the one who tries to keep his place in this strange world. I have been making knives since 1999 and have from day one been showing my work on the Internet. You can probably say that my generation, the -80 generation was the first...