Lauri #2 finished.

Last wednesday I finished up the second knife, and today I managed to go and take some pictures of what I think has become a nice little set of knives.

The new knife.

#1 is the upper one, the newly finished #2 is the lower one. 

It has become a nice set. Initially I was worried that these tiny blades would not be of much use but it turns out that they make very functional and comfortable blades. Two down, Three to go! I`m excited to start on the other blades now. I need to get some new epoxy and then I can start on number 3. I have an idea of what I want to do with it but I`ll need to sit down with a sheet of paper and a pencil. It`ll be my first try in peening the tang.

On the walk I took through a local bit of woods I found some interesting things that I cannot resist to post some pictures of here. First up is a carcass of a bird that was hanging from a tree. All the meat had pretty much rotten away, but the bones and tendons of the wings were there, attached. I really wonder how it ended up there. Do birds of prey devour their lunch in treetops and then drop the remains when they had enough? This bird has been hanging there for quite a while already, and in some way I thought it was quite pretty with the sun shining through.

Another thing that scored very high on the "weird things to find in the woods"-list is this benchgrinder I found in the middle of nowhere. Mounted on a heavy steel pole the whole thing weighs a ton. It is a large powerful grinder as well, not your average small one. Who dragged this here, and why? I`ll probably never know...