Shillelagh Prototype

Been testing out the best way to make a shillelagh this week, since I don't have to do any carving there rather simple for me to do, just trim of the ends at the needed length and shape the nob. The big thing to figure out was how to do the finish, the black color originally being archived by sticking the stick up a chimney and smoking it till it turns black.


Used the closest thing to blackthorn I could find, a piece of wood from a old plum tree I cut down a couple months ago, removed the outer bark, used power saw to shape nob to the rough shape, and then used a black stain with polyurethane, looks good but think I might try some other method in the future.


Then used a sanding drum on my dremel tool too shape the nob.



And then finished the nob with danish oil.

Sword Project

Finished drawing a new version of my design for bronze sword project, only this one shows whole sword and in full 1/1 scale, now just have to figure out that whole getting molten metal to do my bidding part...

Sketchbook Randomness

sketch of a bronze sword I want to make, not sure if you could cast such a intricate hilt, grip, and pommel as one piece with the blade...

Sketchbook Randomness

DeviantArt

I've add some of my old stuff to Deviant Art,
http://nategreenleaf.deviantart.com/

nothing new...

...nothing new to report, no stuff done lately due to the combination of lack of tools, crumby winter weather, and lack of motivation...

New Walkingstick

The newest walking stick I've started working on, I'm wanting to get away from using a bunch of Celtic knotwork on this one, I'm going decorating it with woodspirt faces, green man, plant based knotwork, etc.

So far, I've roughed out a couple tree spirit faces.


And I've started carving a berserker, based on design from the Isle of Lewis chess set,

its basically a knight biting the top of his shield, giving it a great buck toothed look.