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, placed in the 2011 gallery). Some heavy metal work on this one – pattern welded steel, 925 Silver, 20 000 years old Mammoth engraved by my friend Rickard Perman, neodynium magnets… well, for a art-knife lover, this piece got allot to appreciate.

I call it Magnodagger due to magnets locking the sheath to the knife and also holding the knife in place on the display-stand.

This knife came from a very unfortunate event. If you compare the blade of the Magnodagger with the blade of the viking-dagger Segerfaders Fingirin (Odins Finger), also from 2011, you can see that the pattern of the steel is the same. Segerfaders Fingirin were an order I made for a client but when I hardened the blade it bent due to the tension in the steel. This is not at all uncommon and always happens to very long blades.
What you do then is heat the blade a little bit and straighten it up, but be very careful… it does cool down and return to it´s fragile state very quick… and if you are bending it too hard at that point, it will break in half.

So, I broke the blade and was forced to forge, grind and etch a new blade for Segerfaders Fingirin. Very frustrated indeed. BUT… the tip of the broken blade were still intact, and when I don´t like to throw functional stuff away, I decided to think outside the box and made Magnodagger from that unsuccessful piece of steel.

“All is well that ends well”

Check out more work from that year in my 2011 gallery