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Post by MOK on Jan 10, 2015 9:54:34 GMT
Well, I'm still not sure how to improve on it - it looks perfectly functional and quite attractive as is, to me. I suppose I could do simply a different take on the overall theme, but so far I haven't really come up with anything worth fleshing out...
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Post by aussie-rabbit on Jan 11, 2015 9:14:29 GMT
Well, I'm still not sure how to improve on it - it looks perfectly functional and quite attractive as is, to me. I suppose I could do simply a different take on the overall theme, but so far I haven't really come up with anything worth fleshing out... I was thinking a curvier hilt, slightly shorter blade with a 1/4 narrow fuller  |
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Post by MOK on Mar 14, 2015 0:40:34 GMT
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Post by aussie-rabbit on Mar 15, 2015 3:02:10 GMT
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Post by MOK on Mar 15, 2015 20:21:07 GMT
Indeed - but it was made in 992, so I think it's safe to dismiss the film portayal as blatantly misinformed. Much like all those old school Robin Hood flicks with knights brandishing fencing foils. |
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Post by aussie-rabbit on Mar 15, 2015 21:55:05 GMT
Indeed - but it was made in 992, so I think it's safe to dismiss the film portayal as blatantly misinformed. Much like all those old school Robin Hood flicks with knights brandishing fencing foils. True, when Harry slays the Basilisk the film sword is much wider and has a hexagonal profile -  |
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Post by MOK on Feb 12, 2016 0:21:27 GMT
You may have noticed I'm a fan of combining elements from different cultures for fantasy designs. When it comes to Heron-marked swords - which keep coming up, and I'm not even a big fan of the series - my mind usually turns to European-Japanese amalgams, and that's what this one spun off from. I call it a Euroto, since it's essentially a chokuto with mostly European style furniture.  It's 110cm long overall. The blade is 79cm long, 38mm wide at the shoulders and tapers down to 28mm at the yokote. It's asymmetrically hexagonal in cross-section with deep bo-hi, of fairly conventional shinogi zukuri geometry aside from being perfectly straight with linear taper and zero fumbari. The grip is 28cm from the inner seppa to the end of the peen block. The leather-wrapped grip is 20cm long on its own, while the fuchi and kashira add 18mm each. The figure-8 guard, spherical pommel and fuchi/kashira analogue bolsters are made of blackened iron, and the habaki, seppa and peen block of brass.  And of course I had to make a backsword or kissaki moroha version as well, just because I thought it would look cool. I think I thought right.  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2016 0:36:42 GMT
I absolutely love that design MOK. Really cool, and looks amazing. A good blend of the two cultures. I really like the moroha zukuri, but I like the shinogi better. It'd be cool to see a real blade made from this design
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Post by Vincent Dolan on Feb 12, 2016 2:03:10 GMT
Really nice design, Mikko. That guard makes me wish I'd thought to ask for a bit of advice back when I was designing Seitau; then the ring guard might have actually come out halfway decent, especially if I'd had the presence of mind to make the blackening a fair bit lighter.
That said, that kissaki moroha version really reminds me of those katzbalger longswords you see from time to time, though I really dig the shinogi version more.
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Post by MOK on Feb 16, 2016 22:13:10 GMT
Thanks! And yeah, I actually was inspired by any number of those longswords with (considerably larger) figure-eight guards, there, Vincent. Here's another one, a short sword with a sandwiched rondel hilt.  Overall length 62cm, blade length 51cm, width 4cm and thickness 8mm. The blade is wedge-shaped in cross-section like a particularly pointy broadseax. The pommel is, of course, roundel shaped and both it and the guard are made of hardwood riveted between iron plates. The grip is also carved of the same wood.  Now, the Migration Era inspired construction is gratuitously complex to begin with, but just to add some more detail I also put some twisted wire on the grip and a floral etching on the pommel plate. Believe it or not, this actually came out of an attempt to design the silver-hilted poignard from Almuric, Robert E. Howard's entry into the planetary romance genre (think Adam Strange, or John Carter of Mars). I may eventually get around to that one, too, some day... |
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Post by MOK on Apr 22, 2016 0:36:04 GMT
And here's my latest item from the fantasy redesign thread, Hadhafang from the LotR and Hobbit movies:   100cm overall, 82cm blade. Inspired mostly by cutting oriented cavalry sabers. |
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