Just in case you need to cut some cake—a real Viking axe. It was surprisingly light and definitely scary.
Steve Wheeler: searching for shibumi. 渋い —an almost unreachable level of excellence. It’s best described as a form of eloquent silence that speaks for itself.
Animal horns used for the knife handles. Since horns are a result of tough coating of keratin, they last a lot longer than material like bone, which may seem stronger, but isn’t.
If you look at the frame-like objects below the light, you’ll see a fantail (yes, that’s a bird). The fantails enter the workshop in search of insects.
The knives—and the coffee—have to meet this standard.
Steve also writes sci-fi novels. “I create the models,” he says, “to feel what the character is feeling and seeing”. The character’s head moves as well.
Time for a coffee, all the way from a Raglan supplier.
Swords, knives, the cat (Luna) and Layla (the dog). See below.
Hidden in a walking stick.
The entrance to the workshop.
The Eskdale “train stop”, near where Steve Wheeler creates his works of art.
