Viking Age knife.

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A late 9th to early 11th century every day knife. It has a wrought-iron backed blade with a carbon steel edge forge welded in place, hilted with cutler's resin into a piece hawthor n. The blade is based on one of the Coppergate finds and the spine of the clipped point is peaked. Blade length is just shy of 8cm, width 19mm, and it's a respectable 6mm thick! The sheath is an interpretation of one found in Upper Thames Street, London, and is hand tooled with a half tunnel stitched seam. As I use modern veg tan, and chemical dyes to try and replicated bark tanned colours, the contrast created when tooling is lost. So, I've used Antique Wax to bring back a little of that contrast and make the tooling more visible; hopefully, without over doing it! Show more