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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2009 4:19:07 GMT
Picked up the bare leafblade that Rick Barrett had on his website for the longest time (that no one snagged up!). It's 8670M, which is sort of kinda similar to L6, a very tough steel. Rick said it is polished up to 400, still blue from HT in the salts. Sat down tonight to start planning out what I want to do with it. Busted out some tractor printer paper I got from a good friend and traced out the blade and though some different things out. Using some cool techniques I am barely scratching the surface of, in a very basic way, I laid out the guard design I thought might work cool with the blade. It will be a double ring sort of thing, with straight bars that are upset at the ends. I just put a wheel pommel on there for simplicity sake, I might change it I might not I might do some cool things to the wheel to make it not so plain, not sure yet. Blade is a diamond cross section, with a short fuller inset into a sort of hex cross section at the base of the blade.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2009 5:30:50 GMT
hand and a half it and its a winner I think, not to many of that type about
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2009 3:03:07 GMT
Here is pictures!
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Post by kidcasanova on Aug 21, 2009 4:42:09 GMT
That's totally righteous, Sam. Honestly, the wheel pommel looks good on the drawing.
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Post by Brendan Olszowy on Aug 21, 2009 5:11:25 GMT
Great Idea for the guard, solving the problem of a blade slipping up to your finger via any gap between the guard and the edge. It's lookin good
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2009 1:19:35 GMT
A guard which looks like curling vines fits a leaf blade, good call.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2009 1:34:03 GMT
Got the pommel done, went with a simple bean shape (flattened disc). I'll snag some better pictures in the sun tomorrow. I polished the blue from the salts off the blade also and there is a beautiful surface texture underneath.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2009 14:50:36 GMT
Wow...that is really coming along, Sam...I'll admit, I wasn't terribly excited to see it in draft form but now that its being realized, I gotta tell you....that one's a looker, no doubt. I am really liking that guard!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2009 23:23:02 GMT
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Post by genocideseth on Sept 5, 2009 0:31:39 GMT
Wow! That is beautiful! I think a twisted wire wrap would look awesome with this!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2009 0:33:46 GMT
Yep, wire would suit it well.
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Post by shadowhowler on Sept 5, 2009 1:14:11 GMT
Agreed. Shaping up to be a VERY nice peice...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2009 2:56:56 GMT
THAT is a cool guard! Goes very well with the blade.
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