Binesman Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidF Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 Cool Uruk Hai look! How long is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DavidF Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 I love it! I thought about doing one of these and planned to pound a hardened blade into it before HT to make it look like it had seen some battle and had some scars. It looks like it is was crafted in the underworld. Good job and I bet it was a blast to make! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Binesman Posted February 26, 2018 Author Share Posted February 26, 2018 Yeah it was a blast a friend and i actualy made it as a gift for a video game company producing a game we are eagerly awaiting. One of the "sides" in the game is a nordic like people so we wanted to make something that looked like it beloned to them and had seen a lot of battle. So we hammered heavy and didnt grind clean then after tempering we put boiled linseed oil on while still hot so it would darken and age the blade then scrubbed it in with scotchbrite pad. To end we only clean/polished the edges to 400grit so eaven though it was "old and battered" it was "maintained and deadly" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 Actually it looks like a fairly standard variation of a billhook used for centuries, especially for hedging. You may want to read up on stress concentrators as battle weapons would generally NOT have them "built in" Any smith that could forge and heat treat a weapon would be able to leave a smooth surface hammering. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidF Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 Thomas is just feeling under the weather which produces a multiplier for the crumudgeonry. Those aren’t smith’s Hammer strikes, they are deflections from a war hammer. And this isn’t a hedge trimmer, it’s an instrument of battle forged in Helm’s Deep (which coincidentally has a portal to NM/El Paso. Get feeling better Thomas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 There is a set of mountains around here that look perfect for Mordor...war time manufacture is generally lower on fit and finish---to a point! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidF Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 That is sooooo true! War time manufacture, you would probably be lucky to get a handle! LOL! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 I can see the Thesis title now "Quality control in the weapons industry during Saruman's tenure of Orthanc in the War of the Rings" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 Let's start with the cast blades shown in the film adaptation of The Fellowship of the Ring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Sells Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 had a guy that wanted me to teach him sword smithing, asked about if I do the casting here or at another location Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 Alan Williams was mentioning a chinese sword that looks like it was cast and then decarburized in ancient China---they used that technique for farming tools too. I have some basic questions I ask to see if a prospective student has any connection to reality...like how much should a sword weigh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 Well, the two-handed sword of the State Guard of Julius of Brunswick-Lunüneburg in the Cleveland Museum of Art weighs 8-1/2 lbs, but it's (A) ceremonial and (B) pretty huge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 Bearing swords are a special case; but even the zweihanders carried by the doppel soldiers may be 1/5th the weight I've had suggested to me by people. Remember the scene in "the 13th Warrior" where Antonio Banderas' character can't lift a sword that would have weighed 3 pounds or *less* and so ground off all the higher carbon edges to end up with a blade that could be out cut by a RR spike KSO? So much wrong in that scene; made me want to cry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 56 minutes ago, ThomasPowers said: Remember the scene in "the 13th Warrior" Never seen it, actually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 1 hour ago, ThomasPowers said: Remember the scene in "the 13th Warrior" Never seen it, actually. This one is lovely, though. http://www.clevelandart.org/art/1916.1508 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc1 Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 9 hours ago, Steve Sells said: had a guy that wanted me to teach him sword smithing, asked about if I do the casting here or at another location Should have said you do the casting in Hollywood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 Wasn't it "Robin Hood Prince of Thieves where they cast an arrowhead? (ah yes, IMDB even has it on their goofs page!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Binesman Posted March 2, 2018 Author Share Posted March 2, 2018 If i remember right game of thrones had a scene of them casting a sword as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 1 hour ago, Binesman said: If i remember right game of thrones had a scene of them casting a sword as well Yes, the opening scene of the episode "Two Swords", where Ned Stark's greatsword "Ice" is melted down and made into two smaller swords, later named "Widow's Wail" and "Oathkeeper". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Binesman Posted March 3, 2018 Author Share Posted March 3, 2018 Hmm somebody is a much bigger fan then i. Yes that sounds about like the scene i was thinking of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 Dramatically, it’s a great scene. Metallurgically, it’s annoying as all get-out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 I much prefer the forging a sword from the broken bits of another sword. That actually can make metallurgical sense: Why did it break---it was too brittle. What does welding up a billet generally do---lowers the carbon content. So the second sword should have a lower and better disperesed carbon content. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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