Zweihammer's Scabbard

Vitus von Atzinger · Post by **Vitus von Atzinger** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 7:12 pm

This is Zweihammer's dagger scabbard and hand-dyed belts. By tomorrow all will be finished.

Vitus von Atzinger · Post by **Vitus von Atzinger** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 7:12 pm

From higher...

Glaukos the Athenian · Thu Jul 10, 2008 5:39 am

Wow Sir Vitus, that chape is awesome. It looks like the Hoplite sword chapes, or the winged La Tene or Hallstat chapes

Very nice!

RofN

Eyvandr · Post by **Eyvandr** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 11:33 am

Now thats a thing of beauty! Looks great Vitus... Hopefully we can get him to post some photos of it with the dagger once they are joined.

Vitus von Atzinger · Post by **Vitus von Atzinger** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 12:12 pm

There is a small plate that he is to center on the small of his back. The scabbard is attached by hoops to this plate. The right-side loop is smaller to offset hang that the weight of a hilt may bring. The belts were left long so that he can cut them himself.

Vitus von Atzinger · Post by **Vitus von Atzinger** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 12:13 pm

From on high.

Vitus von Atzinger · Post by **Vitus von Atzinger** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 12:14 pm

This piece was a bitch. Dying those little squares with baby paintbrushes was a nightmare.
I tried to give the man what he wanted...

Eyvandr · Post by **Eyvandr** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 12:52 pm

I feel ya brother... When I did the handle for the dagger I first tried to do a true basket weave like I did for Sir Brion of Bellatrix, but decided that cutting and then painting the squares made way more sense in this case. It was a total pain in the butt...

Also not sure if you heard, Erik is getting honored with his Laural at our Purg here in another month or so.

Zweihammer · Post by **Zweihammer** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 1:03 pm

Damn, that is fantastic!

That is going to look so sweet against my new wool 'Rock from Sophia_K. You have done such a great job, Vitus, I truly appreciate it. I look forward to introducing it to Eyvandr's work. Will definitely post pics when all is said and done.

Wicked sweet, Sir Vitus.

I can't wait to gack people!

I told myself I wasn't going to cry.

Sniff.