Mjolnir for Christmas: One Helluva Deadline

[trestle]

Nice work ColdDeadHand, your sister should be quite surprised!

 

[ColdDeadHand]

I have leather on the way.
Plan from here:
Black out Odin's right eye.
Patina the metal.
Light sand the handle and do one more coat of polyurethane, let dry about 36 hours and do a real light sand w. 400 grit to make the handle grippy.
Leather wrap on the handle, up by the head.
Leather belt loop for carrying.

 

[ColdDeadHand]

Call him Thor and you're good to go!

If you do an image search for Mjolnir you often see an upside-down Odin on the head. I think that's so when you lay the hammer down on the ground with the handle up, then Odin is right-side-up.
I'll just etch a little more and take out the eye, no biggie, I already coated the area again with nail lacquer.

And thanks to you all for all your encouragement.

 

[rbeggs]

That looks cool! And looks like a lot of work...

 

[Dr. Scott]

A thoughtful gift. She will be thrilled. Thanks for sharing, CDH.

 

[ColdDeadHand]

Here's a pic with the belt loop. I'm a total beginner with the leather work, but it should hold well, all saddle stitched, none of that sewing awl crap here.
Did not use dye, kept it natural but darkened it with a good coat of Snow-Proof.

Now to add the neck guard/fist grip.

 

[Square_peg]

This is a very cool project. Thanks for sharing the work in progress photos.

 

[scouter27]

looking good

 

[ColdDeadHand]

Thanks so much to everyone who advised along the way.
I'm ready to call it: DONE! Not touching a thing, boxing it and sending it.

 

[Dr. Scott]

Congratulations on the coolest Xmas gift of 2014! Great job! Thanks for taking us along.