New grips/wraps

Its the big toss up between that one or the other norse viking sword (one with the little holes in hilt), both I think sport the same blades just different hilts and its going dead cheap at KoA now ....... so yeah probably that one, get them to sharpen it ........ its hilt is supposed to be a form of antiqued silver (probably just the zinc, bronze, steel alloy stuff) but I think it might look pretty and apparently its dead solid pulling the weight back towards the handle

Hi eruialsul,

I'm not sure you have to put cord under the wrap except if you have to thicken the grip. The cord over the leather wrap while drying is what will leave it's print. But that's depending on the type of wrap you wish to achieve. I think twine will do, thought. For risers, you'll need a bigger cord or leather strips.

But then again, maybe more experienced "re-wrappers" will chime in with more accurate infos, as I only did it a few times (more like experiments still) and got the "how-to" from posts from them here and on myarmoury.com...What kind of wrap do you want to do?

Here is my second wrap. A Musashi Bamboo Warrior.

I got a Windlass Tiberias in a trade with another member and wanted to re-wrap it (not crazy about the twine wrap). I done it a while ago but never posted the result (I'm an expert at procrastination), here go:

My toes are in the picture...quite involuntarily, try and not notice them.


Still a bit of finishing to do on it...

I also wanted something different for my Va-Trim 304S (first gen, the leather was not to my liking) so went for blue:

(my nicest attempt up to now)
Now, I've been wanting to do something with the pommel (first gen: plain, machined look, sharp/squarish edges, which the second gen's don't seem to have btw, they seem to have nicer, smoothier, rounder finished pommels, anybody else noticed?) for a while but am still thinking about what exactly...

Thanks very much for the compliment, Dark Knight!
As to your question: no, I don't do commissions, I'm only an experimenting neophyte in the domain...doing it just as hobby, still learning a lot...but I take your question as a great compliment, many sincere thanks to you!

Okay, so I really like how these grips are done...

jodysamson.com/private-sale-1.htm

And so far I haven't seen any tutorials for anything like this (or like the AoV custom grips). Sorry if it's a simple answer, but I have quite literally no experience with this kind of thing.

No rush for an answer, though, as first I need money for a sword before I can think about regripping it, haha.

Impressive! Most impressive!

I made a new grip for an old sword. The discontinued Arbedo sword.

Marghus: excellent re-wrap jobs! Really like the new shape of your Windlass Baron grip (but, as to it's grip wrap, I'm a bit of a fan of the "classic" leather wrap like on the other sword grips you did...)

Here is what I have done to my Windlass "Type XIV":