In their studio, across the driveway from their home, the Schriefers make all their swords from hickory boards from Sanford’s Seacoast Hardwood Lumber and Plywood. A dense and rugged wood, hickory ...

Some people forge swords of steel while others carve them from wood so that you can see the pickaxe fly like a boomerang. What you’ve probably never done is made a kickass sword from post-it notes.