This style of sheath was typical of the Gotland seax from the Vendel period through the Viking age. It has no stitching. It is held together with meta...

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That is a nice JS set Jonatan. Varied blade and handle shapes. Nice choices of handle materials. Well done!

I am happy to carry on this tradition! I did not have an overly productive year in terms of quantity, but here is the last piece I finished. The patte...

Well, there is always breaking out the MIG welder and angle grinder.......

Somehow I missed this one. Nice job on the Damascus pattern.

Make a bunch of cleavers!

Nice work! The spear looks very cool. The Damascus on that Ulu came out sweet too. Forgewelding 5160 to mild steel is a difficult forge weld at best...

Back in the 20-teens we used to have a "Topic of the Month" and one or more of them (I forget) was about guard fit and shaping. This topic is still th...

Stainless HT foil. Cooking foil is aluminum

I always sanded the precut 2"X3" pieces to 220 grit. I recently took a class with Mokume expert Todd McDonah and he has a different method of cleaning...

BTW-What method have you been doing?

Somewhere on this forum I did a how-to on making mokume gane by almost the very same method you describe. Except, I do it in the forge and don't bothe...

5160 has a high chromium content that quickly forms a chrome oxide layer that likes to bugger the weld. It really doesn't like to weld to itself, but ...