Hugginn and Muninn...Laburnum Shawl Pins...

I've been busy making more tuning pegs for Ben's larger Ngombi harp. He can now play happily without the harp de-tuning...

Once that job was finished I wanted to explore the possibilities of using little Hugginn and Muninn on a couple of shawl pins. 

The Saxon spoon I made some weeks ago with little Munninn sat on the end, was received very well, and stirred a lot of interest in people...

 

And Sarah has finally finished her shawl.  

I had previously carved her a pin that looks a little like Odin.

Which gave me an idea...

Hugginn and Muninn.

Munnin...

Hugginn...

I have carved these two pins from a billet of Laburnum. 

An incredibly hard and beautiful wood.

 Coffee coloured on one side and cream on the other...

 I used a flame to blacken one of them...

 And left the other one natural in colour...

I started carving the first pin using a MaChris made from 01 steel and found that the 01 is a little fragile for this tough wood.

The result was micro sized chips on the cutting edge. 

So I bought out the big guns...A MaChris carving knife made from Silver Steel.

(  BS-1407 ) 

This hard steel coped with the Laburnum without a murmur...

One of these may be travelling up the road in a few days...

 I'm not sure if I will have to post them or whether they will make the journey under their own steam...

I've also been finishing of  a basket of Kuksa blanks...

 And I have also made myself a new spoon from a nice piece of Apple...

This one is staying in my kitchen...

Well...I have to get working on putting sharp edges on my knives and Axes as I have a couple of chaps arriving at the end of the week for a Kuksa carving course. I am thoroughly looking forward to introducing another couple of people to the carving/Bushcraft world...

Happy Days...

Enjoy...J