AB Forge

03/05/2026

Good to catch up with at Butser's Beltane celebration, and I picked up this excellent belt pouch. Thanks Jess 🙏

27/04/2026

A clutch of bushcraft and whittling tools now in the hands of the commissionee.

AEB-L Kukri and whittling tools, 1095 bushcrafter, English burr oak handles, veg tanned kukri sheath and slip covers.

The bushcrafter has a cross draw sheath (not shown)

18/04/2026

Though she be but small, she is fierce....

28/03/2026

The Marlow Warlord, a C6th King's grave, also featured a small personal iron knife, probably held in a pouch with his fire steel and personal grooming items.

The blade is just over 2", and the boxwood handle while speculative (as there no remaining evidence in the grave), it is plausible.

28/03/2026

I was invited by Rod Hughes to collaborate on a project for Brett Thorn of to make a reconstruction of The Marlow Warlord Sword.

This is the outcome. I was involved mainly with the blade construction, with Rod dealing with the beautiful horn handle and other components and sheath mounts, with WoolleyMama making the excellent scabbard.

More to come!

Please visit the museum to see a wonderful immersive anglo-saxon exhibition.

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19/03/2026

A brace of three bar nordic seax on the bench awaiting glue up and shaping.

Wrought, pattern-welded and carbon steel stack, with blond cow horn bolster and spalted beech.

18/03/2026

Now let loose into the wild .... a bushcrafters tool built for some punishment. It was a wrench letting this one go!

5160 steel, 5mm at the ricasso, 2mm red liners, some simply stunning English burr oak scales, 10mm bronze pins, 10mm brass chamfered lanyard tube, all clad in hand stitched 3.5mm English veg tanned leather in a cross draw pancake style.

14/03/2026

11/03/2026

And off they go ...