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Published: 2018-09-01 21:20:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 697; Favourites: 15; Downloads: 0
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This was commissioned as the prototype for both steel and wooden swords that I am currently making. Be a few differences between this and those, wood burning instead of carving, little bit different handle mainly.Poplar blade, cherry guard and pommel, oak and cedar handle.
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Nice!
Shape, workmanship, and material.
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Okej but what width and thickness does the blade have?
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thickness starts at 1/4" at the hilt, tapers to around 1/8", width is around 2.5" at the widest
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Would you care to tell me the dimensions of the sword?
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20" blade from tip to guard, 5" hilt from blade to the end of the pommel
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The engraving is incredible and love the glossy shine. The handle seems pretty ergonomic too. I'm assuming the blade length is short due to historical accuracy/specifications, though I think it would have looked even better longer and slightly less wide. As a novice wooden sword maker myself, I wanted to ask if it's possible to make a strongly curved blade out of wood (like a kilij or shamshir), or would the grain impose problems? Would love to see you make some futuristic blades, perhaps with glowing paint or el wire integrated into it.
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The drawing he gave me was going on a playing card, and had very stylized proportions, he wanted a 20"ish inch blade, but with similar proportions, if I were designing it i'd have narrowed the blade *shrug*.
It can be done, I'd go with poplar for the blade and steam bend it as much as possible to the shape (poplar because harder woods don't steam bend as easily), then cut it the rest of the way, and put a reinforcing strip along the spine made from a harder wood, kind of line the spine of this
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Eh, not particularly interested in futurey blades, prefer historical or ones that could have been used historically if they'd existed.
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I see. Thanks for the advice!
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Guy that commissioned it said he based the design off of an Icelandic (or was it Finnish...) sword
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ΠΎΠΊ,Β It still looks very similar
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Blade is VERY similar to a mainz type gladius, only real difference in the shape is that the gladius narrows more in the leaf, so that the overall shape still tapers, whereas this one flares out to the same width as the base
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Very complex alloy, virtually no iron content, great grain structure though
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Jokes aside, the engraving on the crossguard is awesome.
Though, did the client specifically request poplar wood? I looked it up, and appanrely it is a rather soft wood (I guessed that fron the color, too)
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He wanted a light color wood, and thus far poplar does the best job of staying light after finishing of any wood I've used.
If it was going to be a practice sword I'd have gone with something like hickory or white oak.
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