Back from Sweden with lots of steel

veubent

veubent

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Hey everyone, i just returned from a month of touring Sweden with my girlfriend and family. While there i saw alot and had the time of my life. I attended the Scandinavian Knife Makiing Championship and let me tell you, it was awsome. It was held up North in a town called Ludvika. While there i bought my first custom knife. In Sweden i also bought lots of Moras and a Gransfors Bruks axe. I got lots of pics for you all. O and a surprise i got from a neighbor over there was a custom blade and a chunck of bog cured oak. I carved a temp. handle out of birch firewood for the blade. Heres the pics

Granfors Bruks Axe
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The bog oak
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With the blade
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A old razor i found in a antique store
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The Moras
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The Custom
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The score
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looks great, I have in-laws in sweeden, I might just have to pay them a visit.

Were the knives and axe cheaper there than here?
 
You...are....so...LUCKY! :eek: I LOVE the blade that you put the bog oak handle on. It just looks awsome! ;)
 
To answer your question yes the blades and axe were cheaper there. I bought the moras for around 3-10 bucks each at different hardware stores. And i got the Axe at another hardware store for 70 bucks. It was hard not to buy more knifes when everywhere you go sells Moras.
 
Oooo shinies !! :D

I dig that Granfors... and the bog oak.. Out of curiosity , is the bog oak heavy and dense ? does it have an interesting smell to it ? I would love to score some , one of these days

Tostig
 
Nice axe! I actually visited the Gränsfors Axe factory this summer. Small factory out in nowere in Hälsingland county. I´m am from sweden so it isn´t that strange.
The make the axes from scratch using (very) old machines. In one corner of the building there were big metall plates on the floor and in the next room two men did the final grinding on the edge. It was noisy and smelly! Talked alot to the man that heat-treatened the axes, one by one. It took about 20 seconds per axe to heat it and cool it (in a bucket of water). They hardened the axes up to 65 Rockwell. Very exiting! I bought the "Small Forest Axe" (wich he said was the best and most useful axe they makes). Think I paid round 60 dollars for it at the factory. Sorry but I didn´t had my camera with me.

http://www.gransfors.com/htm_eng/index.html
 
The bog oak is pretty heavy when considering it is a small piece. It does not smell like anything really. The man that gave it to me was sure it was around 1000 years old. Very cool piece of wood.
 
Sorry to repeat myself but how did you get them to your place? I mean, how do the airplane company deal with people who want to travel with big bunch of knives and axe? :D
 
As long as you remember to check every knife under the plain its not an issue. Same with firearms as long as there locked and your not travelling with any ammo.
 
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