Introduction:

Every once in a while as summer nears it's end, a childhood memory comes creeping into my mind. I suppose we all have one, or rather several memories from childhood. Little moments that has left impressions which for one reason or another simply does not fade away with time - as so many others...​

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This particular memory of mine is from a clearing in a spruce forest in which I used to play. I suppose I could have been no more than six years old, and I had wandered into this dark spruce forest. These forests usually are just that, dark, as the thick needled branches block out most of the sunlight.

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In this particular forest however, there was a small clearing. It couldn't have been more than a very few square meters in size, but it was large enough to host the most peculiar forest floor. At the right time when the flowers would be in full bloom, the forest floor in this particular little clearing would  be absolutely covered with blue Liverleaf and Bluebell flowers, like a gigantic blue blanket.

The sun would pierce through the opening in the clearing, setting all the particles in the air along with the flora on the forest floor ablaze in a golden hue!

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Description - blade:

The blade is forged in a san-mai lamination consisting of twisted 15n20 and truck shaft steel for the core, laminated between two sheets of 15n20 nickel steel.

The blade is differentially hardened using clay, and consists of a hard edge and soft body and spine.

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The blade is further more engraved and inlaid with copper and 24kt golden Bluebell and Liverleaf flowers. In each of the three Liverleaf flowers there are set one Ø2mm natural blue Sapphire.

 

Hardness at edge: 58 HRC

Description - handle:

The handle is full tang, laminated between two sheets of crushed carbon fiber. Three Corby-bolts holds the three pieces together reinforced by epoxy glue.

A wheat pattern is engraved all along the tang and towards the very tip of the blade.

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Description - sheath:

The sheath is made out of tooled Schaff leather, dyed and stained black, treated with antique leather wax. A golden brass frame, hand cut, filed and polished is stitched onto the sheath using saddle makers stitches.

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In the center of the sheath there is a monogram engraved into a small plate of twisted pattern welded steel, inlaid with 24kt gold.