Fishing Hook

A fun door handle or towel rack for the cabin.  I make this hook when doing blacksmith demonstrations. After, I bring it back to the shop and finish it up for sale up here in Lake Country.

If you see something you like on this blog or have an idea of your own, feel free to contact me and discuss your one-of-a-kind piece. You can text or call 218-686-9164 or email at me at olsonironworks@gmail.com

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Story Board Sculptures

Story board sculptures are not only good for a student to understand the process of forging a particular item.  They also educate the customer on the skill and patience that is needed to accomplish a project.

Here I’ve turned a story board sculpture into a business card holder that will sit on my display table.

If you see something you like on this blog or have an idea of your own, feel free to contact me and discuss your one-of-a-kind piece. You can text or call 218-686-9164 or email at me at olsonironworks@gmail.com

Crysknife

Since reading Frank Herbert’s novel Dune, I have always had a fascination with the Fremen desert warriors depicted in the book along with their Crysknife.

I’ve even commissioned knife maker Jerry Hobbs to hammer forge one from my own design. You can read more about that journey by clicking HERE.

However, I just had to make one myself.

If you couldn’t tell, my creation is the one on the bottom with the red handle.  It’s made from a farrier rasp.

If you see something you like (besides this knife) on this blog or have an idea of your own, feel free to contact me and discuss your one-of-a-kind piece. You can text or call 218-686-9164 or email at me at olsonironworks@gmail.com

Spoons & Forks

“Do not try and bend the spoon, that’s impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth…there is no spoon. Then you’ll see that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.“―Spoon Boy (The Matrix)

 

It’s fun to re-create eating utensils from centuries ago.

I’m teaching a fork and spoon class in a couple weeks at the newly founded Pine to Prairie Folk School, so I’m doing my due diligence and making a bunch to get my technique down.

If you see something you like on this blog or have an idea of your own, feel free to contact me and discuss your one-of-a-kind piece. You can text or call 218-686-9164 or email at me at olsonironworks@gmail.com