I live in southern Sweden in a small village called Agunnaryd with my wife and 2 kids. Its in the middle of one of the largest connected woods in the country. Hunting and fishing are natural here and they are my other big interests. 

In Sweden we use knives with blade lengths of around 80-90 mm (about 3.5 inches)when we go hunting. So my blades are seldom longer than that, its different to American hunting knives. In 1995 I took part in a course in knife making and after that I was hooked. I think its more and more fun to make knives, there is always a new challenge to overcome.
I make knives just to have something to do and its great to meet other people who have the same interest. I get lots of mail from people asking for catalogues and when I say that I never make 2 knives the same, they have difficulty understanding that. When I go out to my workshop to make a knife, I just pick up a blade, look at it, pick up some handle material and chose on that. Once I start to make the knife, I never know how it will turn out until its done.
I love to work in crosscut masur (masur birch). There is something magical about this. You can colour the wood in a thousand different ways. When I do that I usually start with black and then sandpaper of the most of it, then I do the same again with dark brown up to yellow.

After each colour I use finer sandpaper. You can work up a big deep color in the wood this way. I also do this with red, blue and other colours. Other materials I use are Maple burl, Ebony, Birch burl, Amboina, Alder burl.
After I'm done with the knife I take a long hard look at it and design and build a sheath for that knife and that knife only. Visual elements and color in the sheath echo elements in the knife. Each sheath fits like a glove and is made to give years of good use.
I always do the sheath in leather. I use 2 sorts of skin. In Swedish, Rarandslader and Sharflader. Rarandslader is not tanned all the way through. This leather is hard and robust. Sharf leather is softer and easier to make a pattern in."
Swedish steel is of the finest quality and very clean. Much of the quality steel from Solingen in Germany is imported from Sweden and even the Norwegians and the Finns import it although it is not always easy to get them to admit that. For this and other reasons, knives made in Scandanavian countries enjoy their well deserved reputation.
We have many good bladesmiths in Sweden. I use blades from Stefan Brostrom, Johan Gustavsson, Christer Henriksson and Bengt Olsson and other blade smiths.
I never do 2 knives exactly like each other, I don’t have any determined rules to work to so every knife is a special project.