Matthew Paul Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 Well, I'm not sure if this really belongs in Swordsmithing or the knife area, but I'll put it here. I based this design off of a bunch of different photographs of Scottish Short Blades. It's a little shorter than most of what I found, but seeing as this was my first attempt at making a sword style blade, I figured that would be good. It is forged from 3/16" thick 1095. The spacer for the guard was made from Brass. The guard is forged 1018 steel and the handle material is locally harvested American Hornbeam (Ironwood) with a Laurel Spacer. The pommel is also forged from 1018 with a brass end cap and a riveted tang. The blade length is 9 1/2", the handle area is just over 4" and the overall length is 14 1/4". It is a full height convex "grind" with a stone finish. I will just need to bring it to the local Scabbard maker (Yes there actually is one) to have a wooden scabbard made. Thanks for looking, Matthew M Paul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robakyo Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Nice looking blade. Seems like it could take some punishment. I like the brass guard spacer with the filework. Your fit and finish look really good. I think that leaving the texture from forging the guard and the pommel end was a good choice. Cleaning that up wouldn't have looked as interesting. Someone in this area is an actual Scabbard maker? That is really fascinating and surprising! Robert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel.85 Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 Awesome! great work, I like the finish of it all. One itsy critique from me would be that the brass end cap looks much "cleaner" than the rest(could just be the pictures) I like the roughness of the rest of it, that being said, you did better than I could so don't take my suggestion to strongly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 I agree with Daniel; I might suggest peening the brass end cap with a small pointed peen to make it fit in better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Paul Posted August 19, 2012 Author Share Posted August 19, 2012 Thank you fellas, I took your advice and gave the end cap some texture. It looks much better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2Tim215 Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Looks authentic and deadly - nice ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
switchjv Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 really nice work! great details Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
395743 Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 Nice! I love Scottish blades! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arqueroalpha Posted November 11, 2012 Share Posted November 11, 2012 oh man! That blade is really nice I like it so much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Yates Posted November 11, 2012 Share Posted November 11, 2012 Gladiator blade for sure . Sam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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