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A lot of complex hilts were forge brazed (mechanically assembled, fluxed and then held over the coal forge until the brass slumped)-it's tricky...
It keeps popping up in my head as the Slim Shady lodge...
When I get orders for swords the finish goes 220 greaseless on hard felt, 400 greaseless on a hardsewn wheelc cut & color and buff. All the sabers...
Gonna try to make it for a day at least
In that case Captain, I agree-I used to get in a little trouble for handling a sport saber like a heavy saber :D They are different animals...
There's a looong history of dueling with the heavy saber-Poland, Hungary, the caucasus-not to mention Napoleonic era Prussia and France (watch...
A double edged blade that long is a lousy tool-stick with the Imacasa or get a parang or golok from Condor or MyParang-it'll cost about the same...
That's not an NCO. It's probably a monosteel commissioned officer's sword and nothing to write home about, but it's not an NCO. They were machine...
The hilt on that first sword is one I've been wanting to reproduce ever since I saw it in the Tower of London book back in the '90's. Very, very nice
Interesting, Horseclover-I'm use to calling all the Prussian deep-curve sabers "Blüchers". Mine is an 1848, then-which while it is perhaps not the...
There was a guy walking around with it-traded him a mid-sized barong (he was Pinoy and was stoked to get it, and I really liked the sword)
I believe they can only do long stuff if it's air-hardening. I think I know some folks that do longer stuff. I temper the whole sword to 59-60...
I didn't know Peters could do oil quenched steel over 20something inches-that's good news if they can. I haaaaate hardening sword blades. I've...
I have been getting the saber bug for about 25 years now, on and off: (top one is the Blücher, third one down is my first one from about...
I have a Blücher artillery saber I can pull some measurements from as well. It's been arsenal shortened to late 19th cent. specs but it's a really...
I make k-bits, I've trained with them for nearly 25 years, and I never carry one. Joe was right about a shorty wharncliffe-I would add that if you...
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Yeah I got reeeeaally lucky
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I wouldn't recommend putting a chisel on something that's already a "v" geometry wise
