Roman Sandals Viking Beads Viking Seax Turn Shoes Projects Main	Wisby Iron Knife The original was excavated in the wisby graves, it was a iron knife with a wooden handle. i used mild steel bar stock for the blade and white birch for the handle. the tang was heated to red and then burnt into the handle, then a iron rivet was used to hold it in place. The sheath was constructed like other seax and saxon knife finds, veg tan leather was soaked and then clamped around the blade to hold its shape, then rivited with brass and copper rivets.