(SCA) My new Dane ax

BjÃ¸rn · Post by **BjÃ¸rn** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 5:57 pm

Well, I finally finished my dane ax today. I started it in July and happy with the results. I made it using Sir Justus's technique for a leather ax (thanks Justus). I modified the technique a little. Half of the ax head is minicell foam and leather. I wraped a piece of leather around the ax and haft to hold it together, and tooled the leather wrap with the gripping dragon design from the mammen ax. I painted in the tooling with silver acrylic paint to make it look like silver inlay. I also stained the haft with rosewood stain to make it look more like wood. I look forward to fighting with it tommorow. Here are few pictures of it as the paint is drying.

Bjorn

Dagonet · Post by **Dagonet** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 6:06 pm

That looks awesome!

BjÃ¸rn · Post by **BjÃ¸rn** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 6:14 pm

Thank you, if you are heading to Melrakki's Pennsic Pity Party, please feel free to try it out and tell me how it handles.

Bjorn

Dagonet · Post by **Dagonet** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 11:30 am

I'm not going to make it, unfortunately. I will look forward to trying it out sometime though.

audax · Post by **audax** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 1:53 pm

That is pretty sweet, man. I really appreciate the effort you went to, to replicate the Mammen inlay.

I am going to have a go at making a lugged spear using leather to create the outline of the spearhead. We'll see how it goes but I'm really enjoying everbody elses work.

Thanks guys.

audax