Built to last.
Bespoke hand tools, scabbards and blade work — forged, carved and restored with a Celtic, Germanic and grim-dark hand.
Making things suck less, one job at a time.
Old steel, new life.
The Blood Shed is Jack's workshop. Everything that leaves it is made or mended by hand, to be used hard and kept for a long time.
The look draws on neo-pagan and druidic tradition — knotwork, serpents, spirals and runes — rather than the plundering-Viking cliché. Craft, harvest and fire, not raids.
- 01Bespoke hand toolsMade to fit the hand and the job.
- 02Scabbards & sheathsBuilt around your blade, decorated to suit.
- 03Blade restoration & customisationCleaning, re-hafting, re-finishing, re-handling.
- 04Light wood & metal craftingSigns, racks, small commissions.
- 05Garden furniture & ornamentsPieces made to stand up to the weather.
- 06General repair & modificationIf it’s broken or could be better, ask.
Recent work
A maker's mark.
Every piece is signed with a bind rune — three Elder Futhark runes cut into one stave. Read together they spell Jack. The word comes from the Latin sigillum: a seal, a stamp, an identifying mark.
- ᛃJēra · J · “year, good harvest”Reward for hard work and the turn of seasons — restoration, re-hafting, new life in old steel.
- ᚨAnsuz · A · “god, mouth”Ancestral wisdom and divine order — the blueprint, the structural logic, precise intent.
- ᚲKaunan · K · “torch”Controlled fire — forging, heat-treating, the blowtorch and the welder.
Got something that needs fixing, or making?
Send Jack a message with what you're after — a photo of the job helps. Every piece is quoted individually.