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Hello everyone 
I had another one of those traditional mental breezes not long time ago, so I quickly dressed up in my medieval outfit (which is a white linen shirt and a tan viking style trousers, shamelessly accompanied by my hiking gore-tex boots since I can't figure out how to make a proper turn-shoe
-guess my leather is too thick, but I'm not sure, maybe I'm just clumsy) and I epicly traveled about 50 meters in the backyard, like Mel Gibson in Braveheart, when they ran on the mountain spine 
(how cool was that?!) to shoot a few arrows into the trunk of the old dried out appletree.
I felt myself pretty damn awesome 8), but the neighbours only saw an idiot running around in some rags :C and looking on their faces, they were seriously thinking about calling the asylum :lol:
Anyway, I managed not to massacre myself or my best friend, Lola with the bow
Ending up only with a few broken arrows (that apple tree proved to be quite a versatile opponent) and a nice idea of a medieval nordic styled knife. So after the glorious victory over the trunk I rushed to the shop and started to realize it.
And now behold the pics (cause I know, all you guys carry about is the pics
)
And some specs:
-the full length is 26 cm.
-the blade is 14 cm long, 32 mm wide and 4 mm thick, forged of a 5160 steel core for the edge, mistery steel in the middle and wrought iron as the outer mantle. It has 5 layers in total!
-the handle is dark walnut and beech with carved knotwork.
-the sheath is hand stiched of veg tanned cow hide.
Hope you guys like it as I much as I enjoyed making it
I had another one of those traditional mental breezes not long time ago, so I quickly dressed up in my medieval outfit (which is a white linen shirt and a tan viking style trousers, shamelessly accompanied by my hiking gore-tex boots since I can't figure out how to make a proper turn-shoe
-guess my leather is too thick, but I'm not sure, maybe I'm just clumsy) and I epicly traveled about 50 meters in the backyard, like Mel Gibson in Braveheart, when they ran on the mountain spine (how cool was that?!) to shoot a few arrows into the trunk of the old dried out appletree.I felt myself pretty damn awesome 8), but the neighbours only saw an idiot running around in some rags :C and looking on their faces, they were seriously thinking about calling the asylum :lol:
Anyway, I managed not to massacre myself or my best friend, Lola with the bow
Ending up only with a few broken arrows (that apple tree proved to be quite a versatile opponent) and a nice idea of a medieval nordic styled knife. So after the glorious victory over the trunk I rushed to the shop and started to realize it.
And now behold the pics (cause I know, all you guys carry about is the pics
)
And some specs:
-the full length is 26 cm.
-the blade is 14 cm long, 32 mm wide and 4 mm thick, forged of a 5160 steel core for the edge, mistery steel in the middle and wrought iron as the outer mantle. It has 5 layers in total!
-the handle is dark walnut and beech with carved knotwork.
-the sheath is hand stiched of veg tanned cow hide.
Hope you guys like it as I much as I enjoyed making it
