This is my sisters recreation of a Ironage knife! (She gave it to me for my 30th birthday.) I have made the scabbard!
Sha has made it from schratch, collected bogore (sp?), done alot with the iron I haven´t got the words for in English and the forged the blade. Pretty cool for a 19 years old I think... hehe!

Again sorry for the quality of the pictures.

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Hi Martin,

Looks very nice, I think! Looks very similar to the modern Norwegian "tolle kniv".

Now that sister of yours sounds interesting, any pic of her :p hehe Just joking! :D

Cheers,
Henrik

Very cool indeed! Some sister you've got there. I was pleased when my daughter made me a cardboard gladius!
Regards
Geoff

Swedes will never cease to astonish me. Women will forge blades, while men will work leather and it will be to make scabbards.

Well, it is often said that over there it is a matriarcate, and this will be a proof.

Dear Martin,
I know how you feel. My cousin is petite and does all the usual girly stuff, ballet, horseback riding,
shopping ad nauseum etc. But she is also a cracker jack body man who can cut, sand and fill, weld,
hang the doors and bonnet (with perfect lines) prep and then paint a car like a '66 XK-E type. If I'm
lucky she lets me do some wet sanding. LOL

Swell knife!

Doug Gentner

Traditionally all over the world the smith work was surrounded by an aura of magic, also it was an absolutely male kind of work.

My wife was born in a craftsmen family but she would not approach a screwdriver, mostly on the ground that manual jobs are dirty businneses.

Anyway, I guess a psychoanalist could have a lot to say about the choice of this kind of knife, which has an unusually big and round handle and a tiny blade.

It is an unconsciously chosen female shape, it is not a case if it was chosen by a woman.

Even the sickle's shape has been associated to femininity, as far as I an remember some scholars in the past hypotized that sickles were the product of a matriarcal society.