This will be an ever evolving list of useful links to blogs, reference sites, sellers, etc., mainly for me, but maybe you will find something useful for your next project or to satisfy your curiosity. Please message me with suggestions or if you find a dead link (I hate pages with tons of dead links). Note: I do not like to use Bitly or other URL shorteners since they hid the real link and, as a Info Sec Engineer, I have seen plenty abuse of this.

Blacksmithing

• Making nails: https://piehtoolco.com/Product_Info/nailheading.htm

Coffee (my life blood)

• Mean Bean Coffee (try the Black Magic blend): https://meanbeancoffeeroasters.com/

Fighting

Illumination/Scribe Arts

• Guilding: http://www.illuminatedpage.com/gilding.html

• Pigments: https://www.masterpigments.com/
• For all your painting and calligraphy needs: https://www.johnnealbooks.com/
• Visigoth Script: http://www.litteravisigothica.com/articulo/calligraphy-learning-to-write-in-visigothic-script-i
• English Hand Writing 1500-1700: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/ehoc/index.html
• Jerry Tresser (This is the guy who literally wrote to book on gilding. He isn’t getting any younger so you should get his stuff while you can): https://jtresser.com/
• Natural Ink: https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/how-to-make-ink-foragers-guide-to-natural-inkmaking?fbclid=IwAR137lb9VfYD5osPiEQ1jEOVziIiXbImy3UVZ_LBFD8j7I-OQu0X3RIWE2s

Jewelry

• Birka Type 8 Chain: https://medievalhomecompanion.com/2018/04/30/birka-type-8-chain/

Locks

• Viking Locks: http://www.fjellborg.org/Style1Locks.htm

Medieval DIY

• Lantern: http://www.oocities.org/firespiter/lantern/lantern.htm

Metalworking

• Viking Needle Case: https://ragnvaeig.dreamwidth.org/410058.html
• Chain making: https://wire-wrap-tutorials.com/chain-making-tutorial/

Miscellaneous

• All Thing Birka Sweden: https://earlysweden.wordpress.com/

SCA

Swords

Things other than Medieval that I like

Woodworking

• Norwegian Tine Boxes: https://www.lumberjocks.com/projects/46441