Pelnar Handwerk

05/20/2024

Finally finished something.

10/27/2020

Quite some time ago we promised our friend and fencing coach a scabbard for his Albion Crecy but never got around to doing it.
Now we just found out he's moving across the country and we decided we couldn't let the job go undone forever. So with the deadline of about 3 days we rushed and got this knocked out.
Bit of a challenge to get the color matched to the hilt but I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out.

02/19/2020

Headed to a high school craft show near you!

10/12/2018

Looking for a nice home.

10/12/2018

Sold but more to come.

09/16/2018

Dog collar for an old friend. 3" wide and double layered, so his puppy can't chew on his throat anymore.
These can be made for humans too, just sayin...

08/26/2018

been a while since we've made a knife and we've been wanting to do a rondel for a long time. got this done just in time for our friend and HEMA instructor Angel's birthday. planning to make a half dozen or so more to sell in the near future

07/17/2018

Little something we've been tinkering around with.
Still needs a chape made and then some proper pictures taken

05/10/2018

Learning a thing or two from my betters at Arms and armor.

05/10/2018

Progress. Rebuilding the Cold Steel Hand and a Half sword's hilt and scabbard

04/27/2018

Having made only one full scabbard before this project, It was a pleasure having swords of this quality in my possession for the short time i did, and this was a great learning experience. moving forward i'll be focusing much more on the decorative details that i didn't have the time to put into this project, and improving on the little bits that i know could be done better and faster with experience.

it's not easy finding surviving examples of medieval scabbards, and it seems that most i've seen belonged to knights or royalty, found in burial tombs and seeming much fancier than any common citizen would have carried in my opinion. so, much of my design is drawn from other modern scabbard makers who i assume have done their homework better than I. because of this, i readily apologize if any techniques used were original ideas from the modern makers rather than historical details and i'll give credit if brought up.

Mike Edelson for one, shared his technique that i used for forming the wood cores, and it worked brilliantly. i highly recommend looking into it if you want to try scabbard making

09/27/2017

Bracers done, bit big for the customer so need to do some trimming before i hand them over.
A real exercise in tedium..

08/31/2017

New handle wrap for our clubmate's Regenyei.
Need to get better at making the seam invisible, but it'll hold..

08/23/2017

Custom grip and scabbard. Viscount hilt set from LG Martial Arts.
A lot of firsts for me on this project, but finally done and i'm pretty happy with it.

05/26/2017

Little thank you gift for Tristan Zukowski for coming to our HEMA club and running his test cutting clinic

07/28/2016

One for myself, after the bruising I took last weekend longsword fencing...

07/06/2016