I Now Have My Hair Daggers Up!
October 9th, 2009 -- Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »I have been working for several years on making workable designs on hair daggers. I love all kinds of swords and daggers and have many hair swords and daggers, some that I have bought and many that I have made.
I have worked on the designs that are based on actual swords and daggers and I have used beads and other things over the years to create the look and feel of a real sword or dagger.
I started with beads in the beginning. Mainly because that is what I started working with at a very young age. But I then went on to other mediums.
I feel that the best way to grow as an artist and not become stale, is to branch out and try new things and designs. So that you stretch yourself and grow, both in scope and knowledge. To stop learning as an artist is the beginning of the end to creativity.
I have worked very hard learning to master the art of beading, and I have learned a great deal and will continue to learn new techniques and methods, but in making swords and hair daggers, I found that beading would just take you so far. I wanted more. So I branched out and learned to carve wood and other materials. I learned to work with metals and other materials have been used to create swords and daggers for centuries. Now I am happy to say that I have arrived at a place that I am happy to share more of them with my customers rather than just family and friends.
I also wanted to create a line of hair daggers that would be made for those who loved the idea of hair swords and daggers but only wear wooden hair sticks and accessories.
I hope that you enjoy them as much as I have enjoyed making them and bringing them to life.
This one is bone copper and aluminum.
This is cracked glass beads and spacer beads that I welded together, on an aluminum hair stick.
This is a dragon shelot and katana. Katana’s are interesting in that the original designs were copied from Korea and China and were straight and not the curve that we see today.
Here is the top of the katana. Showing the tsuka and tsuba which are the grip and the hilt.
Here is a pirate cutlass.
A sword and wand set.
The same sword and wand, with matching shelot.
This is actually a Viking Pin, but it is very dagger like.
This is a hair dagger that is shaped like an Indian dagger. It is made of acrylic countertop material and is very strong. It looks just like an Aloe Vera leaf. It almost feels like one too. 
Here is a Celtic Wooden Hair Dagger, I love the copper spirals and the copper serpentine design down the blade.
This one is from copper that I beat and beat until incredibly hard. It turned out lovely.
Here are a few things from my shop. Thanks for looking.
Raven.