A cheap hardware store axe I ground into a 10th century style Viking axe. Ash handle, rust bluing.3yr ⋅ MartinFields ⋅ r/Axecraft
A cheap hardware store axe I ground into a 10th century style axe with an ash handle3yr ⋅ MartinFields ⋅ r/Bladesmith
I ground out a francisca axe from a hatchet. A very simple project with an angle grinder.4yr ⋅ MartinFields ⋅ r/Bladesmith
Seeing everyone's spring garden has me pretty jealous here in Montreal where we are getting slammed again with freezing rain.5yr ⋅ MartinFields ⋅ r/gardening
I made myself a nice little bearded hatchet for roughing out work from an old hatchet.5yr ⋅ MartinFields ⋅ r/woodworking
I just tried out Turquoise dust inlays. I think I'll be looking out for cracked wood in my scrap pile from now on.9yr ⋅ MartinFields ⋅ r/woodworking
My first pipe on the lathe is a little unorthodox. Lots of fun to make though.6yr ⋅ MartinFields ⋅ r/turning
I try my hand at some Kintsugi style inlays with copper and it ends up looking like glitter9yr ⋅ MartinFields ⋅ r/somethingimade
Anyone else see decent hackles in that recent dinosaur feather fossil found in amber?5yr ⋅ MartinFields ⋅ r/flytying
Made a Guksi/Kuksa for my father out of a pin cherry burl. The inlays are turquoise set with cyanoacrylate (foodsafe when cured).5yr ⋅ MartinFields ⋅ r/woodworking
Sometimes the finest wood comes from the ugliest of sources. This root cluster survived a forest fire 20 odd years ago.6yr ⋅ MartinFields ⋅ r/woodworking
Stone dust inlays can be made with almost any pretty and soft stone.9yr ⋅ MartinFields ⋅ r/woodworking
As an archaeologist I often miss my rats for weeks at a time. It's good to be back home for a little bit.11yr ⋅ MartinFields ⋅ r/RATS
Just finished making a very lightweight roughing out hatchet. Weighs half what the original axe did, allows for more precise work and doesn't tire out my forearm.4yr ⋅ MartinFields ⋅ r/Bowyer
I found a scraggly root cluster in the taiga a couple years back and made a pipe from it6yr ⋅ MartinFields ⋅ r/somethingimade
I made a hook from a sewing needle and took a few pumpkinseeds with a pole and a furled line8yr ⋅ MartinFields ⋅ r/Fishing
Something a little different: a small pipe made from a root and a rock.9yr ⋅ MartinFields ⋅ r/PipeTobacco
This is how horn is usually glued to the wood core. The teeth are a lot of work, but provide a higher surface area for the glue11yr ⋅ MartinFields ⋅ r/Bowyer
Some of the first bows were anything but crude. The Hjarnø bow, made 5 000 years ago in Denmark11yr ⋅ MartinFields ⋅ r/Archery
Very simple to make and almost indestructible; bamboo arrows are almost all I shoot.12yr ⋅ MartinFields ⋅ r/Bowyer
I read tenkara hooks used to be made from sewing needles so I bent one with a lighter and some pliers. It's a bit crude but the pumpkinseeds loved it.8yr ⋅ MartinFields ⋅ r/Tenkara
I've got dozens of these small (0-2mm) organisms growing off the glass. Anyone have an idea what they could be?6yr ⋅ MartinFields ⋅ r/Aquariums
Small cutting board made from firewood (Common Buckthorn and Norway Maple)12yr ⋅ MartinFields ⋅ r/woodworking
No posts here in the last few months, how about a linen backed red oak flatbow to spruce things up?13yr ⋅ MartinFields ⋅ r/Bowyer
