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Blade is forged 5160 with a wide fuller, hilt is brass with traditional two part peened pommel.Related content
Comments: 25
Amazing. Best viking sword so far that I've seen 
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Thanks! A lot of it can be learned from books and practice. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me, Ill answer what I can.
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Yes true that. Ok. What books do you recommend?
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The complete bladesmith by Jim Hrisoulas is a good one.
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Let me dig through my referance library. A lot of the titles are old and hard to find, but Ive got some on knife making that are easier to track down and the info translates over to sword making since the principles are similar for the most part.
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Yeah that's usually the case. What are they called and such? Thaaaank youuuu
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Looks like most of the ones I have are available on Amazon. Do a search on knife making and several good books pop up. Avoid "Step by step knifemaking". His methods are not terribly well thought out. Still an ok book, but some of the stuff he does is pretty far from the best way of doing things. Custom knife making by Tim McCreight is a good basic beginners book.
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Ok
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Made a katana blade that was traditionaly heat treated but shaped using modern methods.
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Now that you knida mentioned Japanese, have you ever made a Katana?
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Glad you like it. I seem to end up making more seax's than anything else these days.
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I've been making them for a few years and I'm seeing folks asking for more germanic war knives,
like albion swords..The Cherusker (Germanic Single Edged).
They call it a sword I know it as a war knife.
its not that far from a bowie knife.
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Yeah, its always a crapshoot to which way the markets gonna swing. Im making a bunch of roman weapons currently.
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I agree,I got some war knives or seaxs to do for event in Ohio,But more are asking for The roman weapons..
people watch a hit movie and there is the new trend...
it fellows hollywood..lol
thanks for the reply
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Yes. Ive been a swordsmith for about 15 years now.
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amazing! have always been interested in the old style weaponry like swords and crossbows
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Me too. Been fascinated with european and japanese history and weaponry since I was a little kid.
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so what do you use an anvil or something?
or is there a new style of smithing
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Hammer, anvil and a propane forge.
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