Puukko

1095/L6/15n20 blade, She Oak handle, silicon bronze spacers.

Puukko

1095/15n20 pattern welded blade and spacers, She Oak handle. Leather wrapped wooden core sheath.

Chip carving knives

1095 blade with Mahogany handles.

These two knives feature long narrow tangs which extend nearly to the end of the handle and are friction fit. This allows the blade to be removed from the handle for ease of sharpening and lapping the back surface.

Timber Framing Slick

Forged with an integral socket out of 5160, this slick is designed for preparing mortises, tenons, and bearing faces of large timber construction. On the handle end of the socket there is an additional collar forge welded around the opening to provide strength to the socket seam and prevent spreading during use with a mallet. On the striking end of the handle, a similar band prevents splitting of the wood during use.

Carving Axe

Mild steel body with a 1095 welded bit and She Oak handle.

This axe was designed for green wood carving and features an octagonal handle with three primary locations along its haft for different holding methods depending on the the amount of power and dexterity needed while carving.

Hatchet

Mild steel body with a 1095 welded bit and She Oak handle.

The handle length and profile for this hatchet are similar to the carving axe above but without the octagonalization. With a lighter head and smaller edge, it is intended for stowage in a pack and longer journeys where a half or full length axe is unnecessary.

Hewing Axe

2,5lb head on a 32” haft.

Four piece construction of a mild steel body and three layer beard of mild steel and 01. The broad axe or hewing axe is a specialized type of axe and generally comes in two varieties depending on the handle length. Some are much shorter and are used to hew flat faces onto a beam resting around waist height; this, being the other, has a longer handle to hew timbers near the feet. Unlike the heads of other common axes, the eye and face profile is asymmetric and has one completely flat side which allows hewing of timbers with a larger registration area to create planar surfaces. Both left- and right-handed versions exist depending on how it is held in relation to the body.

Pack Axe

Mild steel body with a 1095/15n20 pattern welded bit.

Similar in length and weight to a traditional Scandinavian forest axe, this is designed to be light and fast for limbing trees or chopping small firewood. Although not large enough for any moderate felling operations, it is still able to clear brush and smaller diameter trees.

Adz

Solid 4140 head with a She Oak handle.

The adz comes in many varieties and designs, from very aggressive curves to perfectly flat. This adz is gentler in sweep and with a full length handle is used by standing on the work piece and swinging downward to remove material that would otherwise be difficult to access with an axe or chisel. Other adzes are used with one hand and sport shorter handles and smaller heads. This specific profile is designed for use in large timber construction where a live edge log face is scribed into the next horizontal timber above it, then guttered to seat over that live edge face.

Hand Axes

Solid 4140 heads with She Oak handles.

In Viking Axe typology as outlined by Jan Peterson, these fall somewhere in between a more easterly Type C and the transitional bearded axes of Type B and Type D.

Type C axes are the only general classification which does not have the pseudo langet flaring of the cheeks on both top and bottom of the eye. However, the Type C is more typically characterized by a longer, narrower body and deeply established beard whereas the Type B is shorter and the mass closer to the haft. Of the Type D, as represented here, the body is broader and edge more supported by a wider face. As is typical in many patterns of Viking era axes, true Type D classification would tend to favour an upsweep along the upper half rather than a straight line like in the Type C.

Blackbriar, the Elder

Blackbriar, a longsword and its companion dagger, are both forged from bands of hairpin wrapped straight laminate 1095/15n20 patternwelded steel. The Elder, with a band of wrought iron between the edge and core bars, follows stylistically from the dagger which served as a proof of concept and learning exercise in lost wax casting. Both blades feature cast bronze fittings alongside antler for the handles, and a deep etched blade kept dark in the evocation of an elder world untamed by exploration.