Bjornsvefn – New custom Viking sword

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...

White carved

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!

Eye of the gods

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,

Welding damascus billets my way – part 2

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.

Welding damascus billets my way – part 1

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.

Sword film

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

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

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

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

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...

Large fixed 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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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...

Work in progress

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...

Engraving steel

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

Melting Ice

While the snow and ice outside my windows is slowly melting away in the earliest...

Go Viking on a sheath!

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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...