Carsten

Some times it is the simple things in life. Like listening to medieval music while you put points on your gambeson so you can attach your new and lovely jack chains, so you are ready for the big larp event at Hammershus #larp #armour #diy

The excitement is real. Still haven’t found a rapier school, but I am going for a massive fight event at the largest castle ruin in Northern Europe as a consolation price

Not a bad place to hang out with friends.
#reenactment #livinghistory #viking

Now that is very exciting

Listening to the adventures of Tom Swan, while carving a new spoon is an excellent way to spent the evening.
#christiancameron #woodworking #whittling

Protip for a cheap level up of your kicking. Stinging nettle salt. Dirt cheap to make.
Stingingnettles are wonderful plants with plenty of usage, from dying cloth, to making cheese, to add a little something something to your roast meat.
They are also a wonderful substitute for blanched spinach.

The feeling when you had a bunch of audible credits saved up and can just get an entire series

I am located in southern Denmark. I know there is a hema club relatively close by. but if memory serves they primarily does longsword

a man wearing a suit and tie is standing in a field of yellow flowers ALT: a man wearing a suit and tie is standing in a field of yellow flowers

Waiting for @phokion.bsky.social to write the French Ambassador.
Guess I have to see if I can find a rapier school near me.

Few authors manage to pull me in so fast and so completely ad @phokion.bsky.social does in his new book The Venetian Heretic.
I can’t wait to listen to it all.
The combination of Christians writing skills and Peter Noble as a narrator is simply amazing.

I now qualify as a hobbit I think.
I have whittled my first pipe! And learned how to spell whittle… here it is compared to my regular pipe… I think I did well. Willow stem and maple head
#woodworking #whittling #pipe #pipesmoking #hobbit #shire #tolkien

Welp found the before picture.
Whole new handle. Gave the blade a dirty polish (I need a belt sander, so badly).
Zebrano handle, polished to 600 grit. Which is of course silly.
Lovely piece with many years of service left.
And a photogenic cherry tree
#knifemaking #diy #woodworking #metalworking

Bit of a chill day. Getting to grips with this cleaver.
#knifemaking #diy

Well. I promised to have it ready for the summer holiday…. Last year….
Mahogany, oak and Douglas.
#woodworking #diy #betterlatethannever

Nice but of field archery today with my niece and a few others from the club. Including my best target so far. Two in the heart.
#fieldarchery #traditional #archery #outdoors

If it breaks the line in counts…
Hence why I use 11/32 arrows…

It was mainly luck. Roughly one out of 4 arrows hit.

70 paces, 3/4 arrows in target. There’s a learning curve and a half, but it is getting there.
#archery #longbow #outdoors

Sometimes you just have to shoot them in the mouth heart and dick

It was finally real spring weather this Monday. So we got to use the outdoor range.
60 meters to the bear. First time I actually shot at anything at that distance. Could be much better lol
#archery #longbow #woodenarrows #spring #outdoors

I need a better setup for soldering, and to learn that skill lol.
But here it is. The throat for my Tod cutler dagger’s sheath.
While not perfect, it is good enough.
#reenactment #history #metalwork #diy #knifemaking

It is brass, but it’s a weird alloy that turned copper colour when I annealed it

I swear this was an accident.
Was just trying to learn a new skill, and boom! I made a thing!
It’s not perfect but it’s mine!
#repoussé #knifemaking #history #leatherwork #metalwork #reenactment #whoops

That does look like an excellent way to spend a day.
Hopefully you returned home with more arrows than I did the last time I went 3D shooting

And now to something a bit different.
Using some skills from leatherworking to teach myself ripousé work. My drawing skills are definitely lackluster, but fun work non the less.
#scabbardmaking #leatherwork #metalwork #history #reenactment

…. That’s it! Imma pull a Collin and take a crowbar to my old HP

I very much failed to repeat it xD
I am left handed but I have always shot right handed.

Hmmm… perhaps I should switch to shooting left handed after all…
#archery

It took ages and it isn’t amazing. But I finished the first one. Next one will be stitched up in the flat instead of the edge.
If anyone knows of a good way to do that let me know.
#knifemaking #diy #leatherwork #scabbardmaking #larp

Longtime no see!
When I go larping I usually bring at least one chefs knife. Until now it had just been wrapped in paper and making tape, but no more. After having made one more camping chefs knife, I am making sheaths for them. Wood core with leather cover.
#larp #diy #knifemaking #scabbardmaking