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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2010 0:24:49 GMT
I've got a DelTin 1st Century Celtic in my collection. It's a beautiful little sword and a fairly accurate representation of one in the NY Met Museum. It has a cast bronze anthropomorphic hilt with a peened tang. It came without a scabbard, but it only took about 6 hrs. to make a nice leather-covered wood scabbard with bronze mounts on the face. The problem is that the metal-on-metal hilt gives the sword a nasty buzz when the blade is even so much as tapped. Perhaps the iron originals suffered this problem, but if anyone has a viable solution, I'd like to hear it.
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Post by ghost on Oct 30, 2010 1:50:47 GMT
I am not entirely clear on what the problem is. The hilt can be narrowed down to the pommel or the guard. It sounds unlikely that the pommel would be cause. I am just guessing that it may be a slighly loose guard. Since it is peened it sounds a bit more difficult to shim the gap with metal or wood. A little copper might be nice if you know how to un-& re-peen. How bout squeezing in a little clear caulking onto the gap between the blade and the guard? I think others on this site have previously suggested loctite/epoxy. oh I see what you mean.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2010 6:57:28 GMT
Thanks for the ideas. I contacted DelTin and they told me the metallurgy was essentially statuary bronze (90/10). Because that's a bit less brittle than commercial bronze, I took a chance and gave the hilt a squeeze in a bearing press right about where the little fellow's crotch sits. Worked like a charm.
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