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hellize In reply to SMKNIVES [2016-03-31 22:27:46 +0000 UTC]

thanks a lot

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hellize In reply to skipshot [2016-02-20 21:29:50 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, but my makers mark is on the other side, it's a moose hoof print On this side you can find the initiatives "D" and "H" from the darkest hour name.

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skipshot In reply to hellize [2016-02-21 01:50:26 +0000 UTC]

ehhe, sorry. didn't realize it was yours.  I do like the challis look of the DH.

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hellize In reply to skipshot [2016-02-21 09:07:23 +0000 UTC]

No problem Others also asked if I had changed my makers mark.

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hellize In reply to Erik-Blackboar [2016-02-20 08:34:01 +0000 UTC]

Nah...there is no reason to be angry! These last pieces are the fruits of the last 2-3 months, I just forgot to publish them. So I am not really that productive, but the contrary, I consider myself quite lazy
Anyway, if you can make such an awesome helmet (especially using 3 mm steel, which is just painful to form), I don't understand how can you have trouble with a puukko?! 
Get back to the shop and finish that puukko!!!

Oh and don't forget to show it

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Erik-Blackboar In reply to hellize [2016-02-20 18:18:27 +0000 UTC]

Oh! I am flattered that you think that the helmet I made is awesome. I certainly do not. I would've made it differently if it was up to me... But yeah, it WAS damn painful to form, managed to sprain/overwork both of my wrists for two damn weeks. 

Still, for a few months, it ain't bad. And I certainly deem myself lazy as well. But forging is my passion. Problem is that I am too preoccupied with forging school stuff, or worse, doing other stuff for school, because students are cheap workforce. And I WOULD go back to the shop and finish the puukko, if I could. The weather is finally getting better, so I'll be able to forge with my pal on the weekends, but first, I have to forge a reconstruction of a late 14th century plough, which is due on friday. :/ 

Anyway, I certainly will post it on DA, finally something pretty and pattern-welded! I mean, when I dip it in acid, the patterns already show, but man oh man, the amount of grinding. I am not used to that! It is such an alien thing to me to just forge the billet and grind the shapes in, I'm used to forging it!  

Oh, and thanks for the watch!

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hellize In reply to Erik-Blackboar [2016-02-20 21:41:34 +0000 UTC]

I was just pulling your leg take your time! 
I somehow find laziness productive in a way. I mean, my best ideas come when I am idling around, doing nothing. When I rush or do something without joy, because it has to be done, it usually gets crappy.

So, why don't you make another helmet, which is to your liking?
Well, if I remember right, ploughs are damn big pieces of metal. Guess your wrist will be put to the test once again

Yeah, you can't escape grinding. I'm more of a "heath that thing and beat the crap out of it" guy too, and don't like grinding either, but it's necessary. 

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Erik-Blackboar In reply to hellize [2016-02-21 15:52:34 +0000 UTC]

Exactly! Sometimes, I wake up in the middle of the night, talk about something random with someone, take a walk in the forest, read some book or just play some game for a while and suddenly, an idea comes to my mind and I immediadely need to either tell someone, draw it or write it down to memorise it. I hate when something gets forced or rushed.

 Well, I am planning to do. I wish to make another spangenhelm, but this time my own. Maybe with a bit of bronze or copper implemented in there, and I wish to forge and attach a boar figurine to the "crest" somehow, in migration-peroid / Hobbit's Iron Hill dwarves style. Or to make it "boar-ish" some other way. Maybe forge the crest to look like boar's bristles, a more snout-ish nasal, attach boar tusks to the (or instead of!) cheekguards. We'll see. I also want to try raise a single-piece nasal helmet and make something really fantasy, so either a dwarven OR an orcish helm(et)! I get divided between those two races a lot... so I roll with barbarians, best of both worlds.

 And yeah. I don't mind a bit of grinding, but it is so different with damascus. My first damascus blade, i think I told you earlier about it, the one with 24 layers of iron and old car spring... I forged it out too thin, forged in the bevel, and now it looks as if there were only about three layers. Found out the hard way that you have to grind into the layers to make them appear!

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hellize In reply to Erik-Blackboar [2016-02-22 20:56:23 +0000 UTC]

Yup, I agree

Hardcore smiths would snort, hearing you want to blend viking spangenhelm with orc and dwarf stuff but I like the idea very much! Do it!

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Erik-Blackboar In reply to hellize [2016-02-24 23:06:12 +0000 UTC]

Oh, also, I like your new knives. What bone (animal and part) do you use for the bolsters? We have some domestic pig femurs, I'll get femurs of free-range pigs soon, and I want to get a wild boar, too. It'd be interesting to see the differences. Also, any tips on working with bone?

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Erik-Blackboar In reply to hellize [2016-02-24 23:04:18 +0000 UTC]

Hey, I told nothing about vikings. And also I meant forging -a fancy boar spangenhelm - a simple, raised nasal helmet -orc or dwarf helm.  

And as you expected, forging the plough is taking it's toll on me and my forging pal. We are ever so slightly going mad from it. Y'know, forging the knife piece that is about half a meter long, 15mm thick and about 5,5cm broad out of 1,5%C tool steel was the easy part. Drawing the bit that turns the earth over from 12x25x1,3cm piece of vehicle armour steel... Ouch. Also, I managed to break my camera today. Gods dammit. Let's just hope the archeologist will like it. Duh, I wanna get back to making my puukko!

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