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Generation X guy who work as traditional blacksmith and jewelry artist in a small countryside town from southeastern part of Finland. I run also small farmstead on same place where my family started it about 150 years ago. The site is located quite close to Russian border.

My favourite hobby is collecting books & comics and most of them are western style stuff, but my interests are slowly moving more close to japanese popular culture in nowadays.
I have admired traditional japanese metal works and their other craft traditions for many years, and like the most from Edo or Meiji period mixed metal tsubas and Inro, Netsuke & Okimono related art objects. (You can find a nice collection of photographs from my Pinterest-link.)

I'm also a huge fan of viking era history, post apocalyptic science fiction, old folklore, heavy metal music and steampunk style artistic designs. Pictures from my metal works & other crafts.