The Armour Archive

i DROPPED a wallhanger 2-handed claymore and the hilt parts broke off of the rod tang. ( it had been glued back together after that happened last time and thusly i had an idea! (oh noez!) i went down stairs with bolt cutters and a hammer : i hammered off the guard and snipped the tang off : it is now about a bazillion times more durable and i think i can put the guard back on when i dremel it a bit (if my grandpa lets me use his dremel) and then i will have a sword thats a bit short for a hand and a half and a little long for a one handed sword ...
umm yeah: sorry about the rant about nothing and has anyone ever done this to a broken wall hanger?

I've tried...not much success. In my experience, it turns out that shite steel remains so even when made shorter...

Do not use a Dremel to do the rough stock removal. Use a hacksaw.

Where you want the new tang to start drill two holes on either side. This will allow you to radius the shoulders of the tang. The radius will provide strength in that spot. The reason many wall-hanger type swords fail at the tang is because the shoulders have a 90 degree angle which is not strong.

Use the hacksaw (with a metal cutting blade) to remove any material yiou don't want until you get the tang shaped. Then go back and do the finer material removal and shaping with a file or the Dremel at this stage. YOu can also use an angle grinder but be very careful. Angle grinders rotate at very high RPMs and the kick back can really do some damage to you body.

lordeduffy wrote:i DROPPED a wallhanger 2-handed claymore and the hilt parts broke off of the rod tang. ( it had been glued back together after that happened last time and thusly i had an idea! (oh noez!) i went down stairs with bolt cutters and a hammer : i hammered off the guard and snipped the tang off : it is now about a bazillion times more durable and i think i can put the guard back on when i dremel it a bit (if my grandpa lets me use his dremel) and then i will have a sword thats a bit short for a hand and a half and a little long for a one handed sword ...
umm yeah: sorry about the rant about nothing and has anyone ever done this to a broken wall hanger?

My wedding gift from my wife, a six foot "beer bewer's sword" broke at a demo, when someone stuck it in the ground, but not far enough, and it fell and smacked the hilt on a bench, breaking the rather wussy tongue that was left.

I had the guy who broke it weld a new piece in, and die the end with the right thread for the brass furniture, and it's good as new. (Better, actually).


Course, I didn't expect "battle ready" when I bought it. It's a shiny showpiece.

an't that stuff usually made out of stainless?

BobKnight wrote:an't that stuff usually made out of stainless?

Quite often. My old wall hanger (much sentimental value as it was a gift) was made from a leaf spring. The tang was poorly made so I cut it off and made a new one as I described above. It handles much better and can actually be used for light cutting now.

BobKnight wrote:an't that stuff usually made out of stainless?

probably pot metal on the hilt