An interesting new short sword I made. Multibar, basket twist hilt.

Salem Straub

Salem Straub

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This is an improvisational short sword, pulling together disparate elements from various metal arts and points in history.

The blade is double edged, and hollow ground on a 4” wheel. It features a single fuller on each side, ground on a 2” wheel.

The blade is pattern welded in four bars, the cutting edges being solid CruForgeV, and the twisted center bars being 15n20 and CruForgeV in a merovingian twist pattern. The tip is forge welded in the “bird's beak” manner.

The quillons, grip, and pommel are all one piece, being forge welded, tig welded, and twisted together. The material is AISI 1018 mild steel. It features decorative collars of silicon bronze, forged and brazed around the steel.

The sword may be fully disassembled, by removing the turned silicon bronze finial nut, using the stainless and nickel silver takedown tool provided. Assembled nut and pommel form a fleur-de-lis motif, together.

Specs ae as follows.
Cutting edge: 17-1/8”
Overall length, handle installed: 22-5/8”
Max blade width: 1-3/32”
Max blade thickness: 3/16”
Width at quillons, tip to tip: 5-1/4”
Balance point is approximately 2-3/4” in front of the “guard.”

Here's some pics and a vid. Enjoy! Comments solicited.

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Thanks for looking,

Salem S.
 
I said this in the sale thread too, but this one deserves another look, thus is beautiful! The damascus and fullers... Wow!
 
I really like that! It has a raw and natural look to it, and is a perfect example of the beauty that a man and his hammer can create.
 
A lot of excellent workmanship there. That blade is very attractive. My own personal impression is that this blade would be well complimented by a more 'traditional' handle, something like a fluted wire wrapped ebony with appropriate guard. The forged 1018 handle is cool, and to be sure, took much skill to accomplish. And I can see the view that the juxtaposition of disparate themes can play off each other etc. No argument there. It's just that the blade is so classy that this handle style feels a bit primitive by comparison. Even so, I think the whole is fantastic. I respect the fact that you try different things and think outside the box.
 
Beautiful creation!! The pattern is perfect and the bird's mouth weld is top notch.
The handle deserves attention, we need a pictorial, at least to find out the brand of the special gloves you use to model glowing steel like it was clay!!!!
 
Wow, that is awesome, Salem! That fullered, pattern-welded blade came out beautifully!
 
what a great sword! The thing has Straub written all over it.
Love the little space age tool, nice surprise there :)
 
Thanks for the kind words, you all. Yes, it's a bit odd for some, looking at the rather elemental hilt with the more refined blade. This is an early experiment in a direction I'd like to explore much more fully, that is the miniaturization and adaptation of artist blacksmithing techniques and design elements, for use in knife, dagger, and sword fittings.
I have a lot of it in my head, much of it I have not developed the skill for as of yet. Forging small things is hard!

I really want to try one soon, in which the twisted basket handle with quillons is integral with a multibar twist blade. Still lots of experiments and failures to come no doubt, before I can pull that off.
 
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