Allan Clark, of Armour Class (Glasgow, Scotland), was kind enough to send me these two pics of a Viking axe they made for one of their customers !

Beautiful looking piece, 'eh ! Mac

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Holy Krunk!

That's Beautiful!

By Odin's beard that is the nicest axe I have seen!

That's just what I've been looking for, or course I bet Mac already knew that ;)

Did Allan happen to say how much that axe cost?

Very cool! :cool:

Any more info would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Mike

Fine looking piece,
I wonder if the artwork is etched or blued,
it looks very well done,
Nicest example i've seen in a good while,
Thanks for sharing the pics Mac,
Out of interest did your holiday take you close enough to run in for a chat with these guys.

Hi Mac,
Be worth the effort,
2-3 years ago i was lucky enough to bump into Allan at a ren faire,
Allan and co seemed a right good bunch of chaps,
More so when he pulled out one of the company's higher end basket hilts,
Hidden from the mauling finger's,
Suffice to say, instant fan,
But to my shame i'm still yet to purchase from them,
But, i could say that about the majority of makers out there,
Not a problem as i've only got two hands though, :D

Thanks for sharing your pics from the trip, by the way,
Some good stuff, :)

Upon rereading Allan's message he'd mentioned that the knotwork design was "etched" !

Mac

This indeed is a beautiful piece!
I have a question though. Are these designs and the material execution historically accurate? I have little knowledge of period pieces. Thanks for the information. Jeremy

Intersting design for sure.