The other side of the pillow

e-hon 絵本 -  “One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji” (Fugaku hyakkei 富嶽百景), ca. 1849, encre sur papier

An interesting German dagger, 19th century.

Ulu Dawn .

 A Neo-tribal style Ulu knife I made up for a very good customer in the US who had grown up in Alaska .

 The blade is recycled high carbon saw blade steel with forge finish and has a Nessmuk style tip one end and a more pointed drop point at the other .

The handle is Red deer stag antler from the herd I used to look after , the cut ends have been sealed with copper dust / epoxy mix .

The pins are square head copper boat nails , scavenged from an old wreck on the Jurassic coast and the tang has been wrapped in 3 strand braided sinew .

Pocket Catapult.

 Kindly sent to me by the folks at Survival depot with the idea of modding it up . The one piece stainless steel construction comes with tubular rubber bands and some practice marbles.

 I used to shot them all the time as a kid and fancy getting back into it with the plan to make my own too .

My plan for this is to strip off the paracord wrap , purchase some flat Therabands and pimp it up as a woods walking slingshot using a stash of ball bearings I have stripped out of wheel bearing braces .