Sword 1.7m long

[Phil Patrick]

HOLY SMOKES!!
Valentin,, what on Earth do you plan on attacking with that thing?! An elephant?

Neat design, I love how the twist flows into the blade section,, keep up with the pictures,, I want to see how this turns out.

Thanks

[Valentin]

Ok new pictures about the sword in progress and a movie but this will take a litle time to upload i will get back about this to you ...i 'll let the pictures do the speaking still far away from over

[ApprenticeMan]

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeet.

[Phil Patrick]

Very cool,,, the worlds biggest salami slicer!

[Valentin]

OK u can watch the video of a texuring over here Forging a sword | Fier Forjat Timisoara just scroll down until u reach
The progres of today -=Today 01.02.2008=- Hope that u enjoy it

[Valentin]

I started grinding and i am here

[larrynjr]

A very fine looking blade, Great work Valentin!

[Covforge]

Nice work
Travis

[Valentin]

Well... I whoud have 2 questions
1.How to give it an atique look
2.How mutch shoud i charge for it ? beeing my 1st blade (the gas for the forge was 60USD, materials 20 ) and the work ...around 25 hours- lot of thie spent heating it up.Shoud i give it for free to the guy.

[larrynjr]

I'm not sure on how to give it an antique finish, acid bath / vinegar maybe?

As for charging, I would certainly charge something, cost of materials plus a reasonable hourly rate. If there are other items you normally make that would be of an equivelent size / shape and you have a "normal" or know how long it takes to make that item I'd charge the shop rate for that.

When I worked computer / network support for other businesses and took longer to fix something then I thought it should take, I'd charge the number of hours it should have taken. Or if I had to do research to fix it and it was a general software issue (could or might happen at any type of business, not particular to theirs or their specialty software) I would charge a fair rate.
If you plan to never make another sword you might charge more for specialty work but if you think you'll do more swords in the future. Charge a reasonable amount that covers costs and normal forging time.