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Originally posted by Ferrous Wheel
Sure can. I know that you, Yvsa, and Sarge expressed an innterest in such. If not engraving, I can do a deep etch of the runes just as easily, and less chance of messing up (engraving can be tricky, what with whirring skittering bits...)
If the engravings will go in the fuller, the fuller might be made a bit wider. Otherwise, it is quite traditional to put the runes just below the small fuller.
Also, I think each seax should have the tiw rune (upward pointing arrow). The use of the Tiw rune consecrates the blade for justice and victory in battle, as Tiw (Zio, Tiwas, Tyr, Saxnot -- depending on the time and region) is the proto sword god. Odin replaced this ancient god at the head of the norse pantheon, as a more dynamic and flashy god was needed to head up the Migration Age (viking expansion and conquest begins). Tyr is also the patron god of the Thing, the "Great Council" of the Norse.
Coincidentally (not!) the Sword of Shiva on khuks acts as the Tiw rune on knives and swords of the North.
The tiw rune could either be struck in the steel like the kamis do with the HI logo and their signatures, or etched on later, or carved into the handle.
P.S. I don't own a recent khuk with the big "L.B." signatures (for Bura, for example), just ones with the smiths makers' mark. but I would have reservations having a seax with these S.N. or L.B. letters on it. once you add the runes for period effect, you'll still have these modern english letters anachronistically glaring from the steel. No big issue, just a cosmetic one.
keith
So the question is: do we put runes on the wood model itself to be sent to the kamis, or not?
Adding the runes to the model for the kamis would present two potential problems that I see: (1) how the kamis decide to reproduce them & (2) additional time & labour, and thus cost (for those who aren't really interested in having runes).
The other question is, in addition to the Tyr rune, what would the row of runes be? Something like BURA ME FECIT?