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Grimnir
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Wooden strap end, Viking style
This is another little thing I've been working on, and one I wanted to ask a question on. Namely, how do you sand something like this without ruining it? There's a lot of fuzzies and areas where it could do wih it but I daren't get the dremel out and I just don't get how to do that level of detail without sanding half the design flat!
Oh, it's a copy of a Viking era strap end from Jorvik (York) and it 4" long by an inch at the widest. It's from a piece of found wood I split and made this section by batoning it and whittling it flat 
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sally_in_wales
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Lovely
Go for a tool finish, so scrape it in sections with a blade rather than sanding it. Very little sanding was done at that period and a good tool finish is often much more pleasing than a sanded one anyway
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Slim
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It'll be smooth and lovely once it's been handled enough, eh?
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vegplot
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Sharp tools and as Sally says scrapers.
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Blacksmith
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Found this bronze one.
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