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August Update 2019

Visiting Fawn

Here are a few photos of my runic woodworking projects recently as well as a sunrise on the lift bridge in Duluth, MN and an encounter with a fawn in southern MN.

I am preparing for a busy September where I will have my work for sale at the Little Falls Arts in the Park, Hutchinson Art Show, and the Norsk Høstfest in Minot North Dakota!

Runice Magnetic Knife Block

Runic Wood Chest with Mammen Style Figure

Runice Magnetic Knife Block

Runic Black Walnut Serving Board

Duluth Lift Bridge Sunrise

Visiting Fawn

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Woodworking and Art Show Update

Post author By Cole Nyquist
Post date June 30, 2019
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Hopperstad Stav Church - Moorhead, MN

I have been working on woodworking as well as photography, but haven’t posted much lately so I thought it was time for a few updates. Some of these items sold at the recent Midwest Viking Festival at the Hjemkomst museum in Moorhead, MN, but there are plenty more to come!

Runic Serving Board

Black Walnut Lake Superior Agate and Rock Table

Runic Black Walnut Chest with Old Norse Art

Runic Walking Staff

Hopperstad Stav Church – Moorhead, MN

Hjemkomst Reproduction Viking Ship – Moorhead, MN

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Fall Woodworking Update

Campfire Lamp with Flickering LED Bulb

Here are a few project updates for my new woodworking projects this year. I tried to make a few new ideas including a burning log lamp and wood sided bags. I hope you enjoy the update!

Campfire Lamp with Flickering LED Bulb

Lake Superior Rock and Agate Resin Oak Slab Table with Hairpin Legs

Black Walnut Cutting Board with Runic Inscription

Black Walnut Keepsake Box with Runic Inscription

Aspen Sided Leather Bag with Tree of Gondor Wood Burn

Aspen Sided Leather Bag with Pine Tree Wood Burn

Black Walnut Lake Superior Rock and Agate Resin Table with Hairpin Legs

Dala Rocking Horse

Tags Agate, Agates, Bag, Black Walnut, box, Coffee Table, Dala Horse, Dala Rocking Horse, fire, hairpin legs, jewelry box, Lamp, Leather, Leather bag, Oak, Purse, Resin, Rock, Rocking Horse, Rocks, Runes, Runic, Runic Inscriptions, Slab, slab table, Table Lamp, tables, Wood-burning

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Summer Woodworking Projects

Post author By Cole Nyquist
Post date July 8, 2018
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Live-edge Oak Desk/Breakfast Table

Here is a quick update of a few of my recent woodworking projects from this spring and summer. The coffee table, sofa table, jewelry box, and magnetic knife block are made from black walnut wood which my great-grandfather cut and milled decades ago from our family farm in southern Minnesota. The oak desk/breakfast table is made from live edge wood that we milled with a chainsaw from an old dead oak tree on the same farm/woodlands of our family. The interesting character to the wood is from partial rot, weather damage, and insects and makes for a very unique piece.

Black Walnut Jewelry Box with Runic Inscription and patterns from Sami, Kpele, Norse, and Japanese Art

Black Walnut Magnetic Knife Block

Black Walnut Coffee Table

Black Walnut Sofa Table

Live-edge Oak Desk/Breakfast Table

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Red Oak Slab Table with Black Walnut Butterfly Inlay and Runic Verse from the Vǫluspá in the Old Norse Poetic Edda

Post author By Cole Nyquist
Post date November 14, 2017
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Red Oak Slab Table with Black Walnut Butterfly Inlay and Runic Old Norse Verse

This end table is made from a chainsaw cut naturally fallen oak tree from southern MN. The edges are chiseled free of bark and rot and dried for over a year. The crack which opened up during the drying process has been held together by three black walnut butterfly inlays for strength and decoration. The oak slab is mounted on raw steel legs which also brace the cracks in the wood. Around the edge is an Old Norse verse written in Elder Futhark runes from the Vǫluspá in the Poetic Edda.

The verse reads:

Vǫluspá 3

Ár var alda

þar er Ymir byggði,

vara sandr né sær

né svalar unnir,

jörð fannst æva

né upphiminn,

gap var Ginnunga,

en gras hvergi.

The Seeress´s Prophecy 3

Young were the years,

when Ymir made his settlement,

there was no sand nor sea,

nor cool waves,

earth was nowhere

nor the sky above,

chaos yawned,

grass was nowhere.

The English translations are from The Poetic Edda: A New Translation by Carolyne Larrington. Oxford University Press. 1996

ᚨᚱ ᚹᚨᚱ ᚨᛚᛞᚨ ᚦᚨᚱ ᛖᚱ ᛉᛗᛁᚱ ᛒᛉᚷᚷᚦᛁ ᚹᚨᚱᚨ ᛊᚨᚾᛞᚱ ᚾᛖ ᛊᛇᚱ ᚾᛖ ᛊᚹᚨᛚᚨᚱ ᚢᚾᚾᛁᚱ ᛃᛟᚱᚦ ᚠᚨᚾᚾᛊᛏ ᛇᚨ ᚾᛖ ᚢᛈᛈᚺᛁᛗᛁᚾᚾ ᚷᚨᛈ ᚨᚱ ᚷᛁᚾᚾᚢᚾᚷᚨ ᛖᚾ ᚷᚱᚨᛊ ᚺᛖᚱᚷᛁ

Red Oak Slab Table with Black Walnut Butterfly Inlay and Runic Old Norse Verse

Tags Black Walnut, Butterfly Inlay, Crack, Forest, Live-edge, Live-edge Table, Live-edge wood, Natural, Nature, Oak, Old Norse, Poem, Poetry, Raw Steel Legs, Red Oak, Rune, Runes, Runic, Runic Inscriptions, tree, Tree Rings, Viking, Wood, wood-burn, Wood-burning, Woodworking

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New Runic Cutting Boards

Black Walnut Runic Cutting/Serving Board

Black Walnut and Elm cutting/serving boards with Elder Futhark and Medieval Futhark Runic Inscriptions from Havamal in Old Norse.

Black Walnut Runic Cutting/Serving Board

Elm Runic Cutting/Serving Board

Black Walnut Runic Cutting/Serving Board

Tags Black Walnut, Butcher Blocks, Cutting Boards, Elm, Hávamál, Old Norse, Poem, Poetry, Runes, Runic, Runic Inscriptions, Serving Boards, Wood, Wood-burning, Woodworking

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Recent Project Updates

Dala Rocking Horse

A few recent cutting boards and the Dala Rocking Horse which I built for my niece! Cutting Boards are Black Walnut and Elm and two include runic inscriptions of Old Norse wisdom literature from Havamal.

Black Walnut Cutting/Serving Board

Black Walnut Cutting/Serving Board with Cherry Butterfly Inlay

Elm Cutting/Serving Board

Black Walnut Cutting/Serving Board with Runic Inscription

Dala Rocking Horse

Tags Black Walnut, Cutting Boards, Dala Horse, Dala Rocking Horse, Elm, Horse, Nordic, Paint, Painting, Rocking Horse, Scandinavian, Serving Boards, Swedish, Wood, Woodworking

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Lake Superior Rock and Resin Tables and Wood-Burns

Post author By Cole Nyquist
Post date September 5, 2017
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Live - Edge Lake Superior Rock and Agate Resin Table - Black Walnut

In preparation for upcoming Art Shows which I will be attending this month (in Little Falls September 9-10 and Crosslake September 30th), I have just finished two additional Lake Superior Rock and Agate Resin Coffee/End Tables, one with Black Walnut wood and the other, most likely, with Cottonwood. In this post, I have also included photos of some of my fan wood-burns from LoTR and GoT inspired Minnesota.

Live – Edge Lake Superior Rock and Agate Resin Table – Black Walnut

Lake Superior Rock and Agate Resin Table – Black Walnut

Live – Edge Lake Superior Rock and Agate Resin Table – Black Walnut

Live – Edge Lake Superior Rock and Agate Resin Table – Cotton Wood

Argonath Large Wood-Burn

Minnesota State GoT Inspired Wood-Burn

Tags Agate, Agates, Black Walnut, Coffee Table, Cottonwood, End Table, hairpin legs, Lake, Resin, River, Rock, Rocks, Stones, Stream, Table, tables, Tidepool, Wood, wood-burn, Wood-burning, Woodworking

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Cutting and Serving Boards

Post author By Cole Nyquist
Post date July 13, 2017
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Black Walnut Serving Boards with Runic Inscriptions from Hávamál

My most recent project was to make a variety of cutting and serving boards out of black walnut, oak, and cedar. Some of these boards are charred with a blow torch in an attempt at the Japanese Shou Sugi Ban style of cedar wood charring which I also performed on oak and walnut. The charring makes the wood UV, weather, rot, and bug resistant and makes for a unique look and interesting creation process.

Two of these boards have runic inscriptions of Gnomic/Wisdom sayings from Hávamál in the Old Norse Poetic Edda. The chosen verses for these boards deal with friendship and hospitality which I thought was most fitting for something which can be used for entertaining.

The axe/cleaver styled board has a verse which translates:

34. It’s a great detour to a bad friend’s house,

even though he lives on the route;

but to a good friend’s the way lies straight,

even though he lives far off.

Afhvart mikit er til ills vinar

þótt á brautu búi

en til góðs vinar liggja gagnvegir

þótt hann sé firr farinn.