by André | Jun 23, 2015 | Fixed-blades, Words from André |
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...
by André | May 17, 2015 | Engravings, Words from André |
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...
by André | May 13, 2015 | Engravings, Words from André |
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...
by André | Apr 24, 2015 | Words from André |
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...
by André | Mar 8, 2015 | Engravings, Words from André |
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...
by André | Mar 2, 2015 | Video, Words from André |
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.