sorry that this took so long to get done, but sometimes "life" happens...anyway here is the completed three core twist/counter-twist offest interupt pattern sword with a three piece bovine ivory (bone( grip with bronze and silver mounts. This one turned out OK so it seems.

Sorry that the photos aren't all that hot but hey, I never claimed to be a photographer...

JPH

Wow, beautiful sword Jim.

btw, did you recieve my email or pm through here? I am coming to Vegas next month and would like to stop in and say hi.

Hello:

I just posted the entire walk through article on my website en toto...for those interested..

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look for "articles by Jim" in the menu and click you will be taken to a sub menu listing all the artciles to date..

Fred: I didn't recieve any message..so what's the scoop??

JPH

JIM-- Thanks-- for the great written article on the composite pattern welding.

You have it as plain as it could be written, pictures are great.

Good job.

Chuck Bennett

Chuck:

Thank you for the kind words.. I try to keep this as easy to understand and follow and to be as striaghtforward as I can when writing. Sometimes it's difficult to know whether or not I actually succeeded....

All in all I think the article truend out OK...

Take care

JPH

App:

Welding is welding...it's not that hard to do, besides it is a basic skill after all..The hard part is getting the twists even and everything alaigned right. Now THAT is a real PITA to get done right. But the welding is just welding..

While you do need to know how to make 100% perfect welds 100% of the time, it's really not all that hard to do if you follow the "rules of welding"...It's just that when you do a sword in this fashion it's a bunch of rerally long welds..

JPH

Very good Jim, beautiful sword, i looked at your website (very nice i must say) article, very thorough and easy to understand, for me anyways, i hope to make something as nice as that someday soon, once again great work

Ron