Asterisck

I didn't actually blue any of the steel, that is probably just the lighting. I left the scabbard plain so she could have input on how to make it look, we'll be laser engraving and or burning runes and/or knot patterns into the wood, adding the chape and top fitting and modifying it for straps once we figure out how she wants to wear it. Then we'll varnish the hell out of it with something nice and durable. I put 2 solid months into this sword. I had a lot of things to figure out and try on practice pieces before I did the real one. Made 2 practice blades out of plasma cut mild plate steel to test my grinding, weight, design, and balance. I know the screws were a blatant anachronism, but I was running out of time to finish. I finished the pommel 2 days before I proposed. With it being my first sword and first blade of any kind I wanted to make sure it was serviceable over full historical accuracy. They definitely had 2 piece pommels that were riveted and I might make some custom screws that I can install and grind the heads down so it looks like a peened and ground rivet, I just didn't have the time to pull it off.

My girlfriend(now fiancé) has a good deal of various Nordic ancestry and choose to make a sword as the primary instrument of proposal. Swords were a sign of status and wealth at the time of the Vikings. So I decided to lean into that.

I made this sword to propose to my girlfriend. Blade is 1.33 lbs 26.5 inch blade and 33 inch overall length. 1075 steel quenched in Parks 50 and tempered in 500F avocado oil. Guard is 1045 steel with hand graved copper inlay. Handle is purple heart. Pommel is cast aluminum bronze with twisted silver wire and a 1045 steel base held together with brass screws. Tang is threaded with 1/4-28 to hold the handle together. Scabbard is CNC carved Alder and then sanded to a nice oval cross section. Total weight is 2.2 lbs and the balance point is 4.5 inches from the guard, vibration node at the middle finger of the grip.

Something I recently made for a friend.