Bit of a gear shift... choppy, pokey and gougey.
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 10:07 am
No I'm not dead, just kinda shifted gears a lot.
Did these as prizes for the local Warlord tournaments not too long ago. Didn't get to go, but got them to my local baron in time that he could give them out. Don't honestly know who won them, or if they liked them at all. Lots of other people liked them, so despite how dissapointed I am with them, I guess they turned out ok. Picture is less ok, and it's all I have of them. I was REALLY rushed to get them done in time. Anyway...
Seax for the archers. Main guard for the rapier fighters. Rondel for the armored combatants.
They run about a cubit long overall give or take.
Materials are largely questionable. The steel is some kind of wonderful stuff I bought scrap. I could easily put a 3+ inch bend in the blade (give or take 14 inches length from tip to hilt) on the rapier prize and it would snap back without fail. The others don't flex. At least not under the power of my girly arms. Wood is... well, some is oak I think. The lighter is hard, dense and for lack of a better descriptor, gummy to work with. Random shit I bought at a specialty woods shop here. Was like a bundle of mixed hardwood as big around as a coffee can, strips from 4-8 feet, priced at $13, and I said, crap, I'll use it for SOMETHING someday. Brass on the seax is just 1/8" scrap I had laying around, and long brass 1/8" shank rivets with the heads nipped off. The guard/pommel on the rondel is 3 layers, 10g mild steel and brass of similar thickness, again scrap. Guard on the main guard was 1/4" round bar, forged square, with the curly bobs and the I cheated like a fiend and welded it all together (Less happy bout that, but I didn't have time or brain wattage to outer-figure a better solution). Pommel on that one is a slice of 5/8" steel salvaged from a blueprint machine.
Meh... Learned a LOT. Had fun. Made people happy (and more people jealous). I win t3h interwebtubes!
Did these as prizes for the local Warlord tournaments not too long ago. Didn't get to go, but got them to my local baron in time that he could give them out. Don't honestly know who won them, or if they liked them at all. Lots of other people liked them, so despite how dissapointed I am with them, I guess they turned out ok. Picture is less ok, and it's all I have of them. I was REALLY rushed to get them done in time. Anyway...
Seax for the archers. Main guard for the rapier fighters. Rondel for the armored combatants.
They run about a cubit long overall give or take.
Materials are largely questionable. The steel is some kind of wonderful stuff I bought scrap. I could easily put a 3+ inch bend in the blade (give or take 14 inches length from tip to hilt) on the rapier prize and it would snap back without fail. The others don't flex. At least not under the power of my girly arms. Wood is... well, some is oak I think. The lighter is hard, dense and for lack of a better descriptor, gummy to work with. Random shit I bought at a specialty woods shop here. Was like a bundle of mixed hardwood as big around as a coffee can, strips from 4-8 feet, priced at $13, and I said, crap, I'll use it for SOMETHING someday. Brass on the seax is just 1/8" scrap I had laying around, and long brass 1/8" shank rivets with the heads nipped off. The guard/pommel on the rondel is 3 layers, 10g mild steel and brass of similar thickness, again scrap. Guard on the main guard was 1/4" round bar, forged square, with the curly bobs and the I cheated like a fiend and welded it all together (Less happy bout that, but I didn't have time or brain wattage to outer-figure a better solution). Pommel on that one is a slice of 5/8" steel salvaged from a blueprint machine.
Meh... Learned a LOT. Had fun. Made people happy (and more people jealous). I win t3h interwebtubes!
could be that I am biased though.