Projects

Although my projects generally focus on viking age pieces, there’s lots of fascinating and amazing historical artifacts from many time periods that I take interest in.  Several years ago I stumbled upon this 3rd century CE Roman multitool and was intrigued by it. Amazing that this complex piece, so like a modern multitool, was made […]

Another tarsoly – the original consists of a lightly graved silver plate that is highly worn from years of use. The graving, even on the best preserved bottom section of the plate, is not very deep compared to other examples. The background is stippled with an array of very small circles.  Also, the entire surface

Another SCA peerage medallion, this one for the elevation in Drachenwald.  The medallion design was inspired by a small number of disc-shaped pendants depicting animals. One example is a find with a two-headed bird from Gnezdovo shown below. I’ve found additional examples on auction sites and other unverifiable online sources of animal shapes depicting birds

Throughout the history of the trade of precious metals, having means to judge the metal’s purity has been essential to ward of forgery and adulteration.  While various chemical and/or heat-based methods have been known for hundreds of years, a simpler nondestructive method using a touchstone is probably much older. The metal in question would be rubbed

This is a set of three silver pendants made using the techniques of granulation and filigree inspired by Viking Age disk shaped pendants. Two of the pendants have a shield-shaped design and a third is a zoomorphic figure. They were inspired by extant designs found in museums and online auctions. Pendant 1 My first attempt

A Laurel/Pelican medallion for Countess Richenda de la Selva on the occasion of her elevation tot the oder of the Pelican, using filigree & granulation techniques similar to those used for my bucket shaped pendants.  Richenda’s persona is 15th c Swedish, so the design reflects an attempt at a later aesthetic than typical for viking

I ran across some objects on auction sites (worthpoint.com, invaluable.com, drouot.com & others) labelled variously as Viking Bucket Pendant, Scandinavian Pre-Viking Bucket Pendant, Anglo-Saxon / Viking Filigree Bucket Pendant, Pre-Viking Filigree Aroma Bucket Pendant, or Bucket Pendant from the Pagan Anglo-Saxon and Viking Times.  There is a wide variety of different information regarding their time

After visiting the National Museum of Denmark, I became interested in silver cups from the Viking age.  One of the most famous viking age silver cups is a round bottomed cup from the Lejre hoard with cast details and gilding near the rim.  I’ve seen several reproductions of this cup, and the original is shown

3rd set of viking scales, with case based off of Gotland find (below). The balance itself was inspired by this illustration. Here is the case before polishing And here is the finished balance/scales with the case.

Kubbstol amulets are a type of small chair shaped pendant from the viking age found in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Germany. There are over 20 known examples in a variety of shapes and with a variety of decorations made from bone, amber, and metal (silver & bronze).  The piece above was the inspiration for my

After making my first set of scales and researching various different extant samples, I became interested in making a set inspired by a particular style which featured a silver finish with exposed gold color in the pans. The first example of the style I ran into was this set found near Trondheim. Looking at the

This page contains is a description of the process of making a pair of kolti (temple pendants) and diadem inspired by historical finds from medieval Kyivan Rus culture.

A set of brass viking scales with case.

A Tarsoly inspired by one found in Karos-Eperjeszög II, grave 52

A county coronet modeled after baltic/latgalian circlets.

On this page I’ve compiled several other smaller and older projects I’ve made over the years. As I find more old photos or make new small stuff I’ll add more.