uLike blade designs

That is a monster of a sword, MOK. Also, as to its Oakeshott type, I think it looks most closely to an XIII, albeit with unusually short fullers. Still, I like it. It looks like it's meant to lop off heads with a flick of the wrist.

aahh that i like the ball pommel is always my favourite,swap the curved guard for a straight design and its perfect for me,most people tend to shun the ball pommel wherea's i tend to do the same with curved guards :lol:

This one actually has a story behind it. I call it the Slasher because it resembles and was inspired by the big chef's knives that star in so many classic slasher movies.





It belongs to a grim little girl named Diana, twelve years old, very precocious and a bit weird. Think of a mixture of Lilo, Wednesday Adams, Tiffany Aching and American McGee's Alice. Her family lives next door to a place called Moonmire, a tangled, worthless mess of woods and swampland that's basically Lovecraftian horror for cartographers: its internal geography has very little to do with anything observable from outside its borders, chronography is questionable at best, and to get where you want to go you have to know how to travel along which pathways - whistle a certain tune while walking down the left side of the Spiral Path, and you'll come to an ancient, bottomless well surrounded by rosebushes, frequented by the kindly Lady of Lost Souls; run the right side of the same path in silence, and you'll find a round clearing, and in its middle a round hole in the ground, and in the hole winding, crumbling stone stairs that lead down to all the secret places underground. Diana has claimed the Moonmire for her personal playground, and spends much of her time exploring this hidden little world, in the process becoming quite (in)famous among its denizens.

There are bogies, round, furry, basketball-sized things with spidery limbs, huge luminous eyes and gaping jaws with altogether too many teeth for comfort; they live in great cavern cities deep underground, and their whole economy (and religion) is based on teeth, which they will trade with or take from anybody and anything they can (yes, including the baby teeth from underneath your pillow) and wear in their mouths as a display of wealth and status. There are loonies, fairy-like humanoids about two feet tall that grow younger and older with the phases of the moon and wane almost immaterial during daylight; at nights of new moon when they're at their youngest and most solid, they throw wild parties where they drink pale mushroom wine and laugh and dance until dawn. There are ghosts, spirits of the dead trapped by Moonmire's twisted geography; some are friendly, some hostile and many outright insane, but all pay respect, however grudging, to the Lady of Lost Souls. And there are many more, far weirder things.

This sword was made for Diana by the bogies to replace her mother's chef's knife, her original weapon of choice, broken in battle with a blind monster from beneath the bogie kingdoms. The remains of that knife now lie encased in the closed fist of a towering statue of her, in a subterranean temple built in her honor by the bogies who fear and worship her as an avatar of their chief deities, the great and terrible Bone Mothers. Her new sword is larger and sturdier, a proper weapon more suited to actual combat.





The blade is 17 inches long and over 2 inches wide at the base, and tapers distally from the far end of the grip all the way to the point. The tang also tapers from the back to the front of the grip. All this places the center of balance about an inch below the bolster and some way behind the blades' center line, along the horizontal dotted red line in the cross-section schematic, above.

The bone grip swells in the middle in both width and thickness to properly fill your palm, then tapers back down before curving forward to form the "pommel". Together with the bolster it should provide a very secure grip, with just enough room left over that you can adjust your hand position a little, snuggling right up to the bolster for more precise point work or slipping further back towards the pommel for more powerful chops.

You can see the actual construction below.





It begins with the bare blade, complete with the fuller, holes for the rivets and a recess for the bolster. Then the bolster is forged in place around the blade, making it impossible to move without actually breaking either it or the tang. The grip scales are fitted onto the tang and their bottom ends to the slightly concave top of the bolster (I made the parts transparent so you can see just how they all fit together). And finally the grip scales are fixed in place with two fairly substantial rivets, their heads polished almost flush with the grip.

Thanks. And yeah, it does a bit, doesn't it ?

This is really one of the blades I most want to get made. I even know who I want to make it : JT Pälikkö. Now if I only had the money...

You and me and everyone else.

that's just sword porn right there,a candle lit hotel room ,some oily rags and a creamic hone and thats me pretty much set :lol: the diana knife looks really good too ,some of your'e designs really should be in production

The only problem would be picking which ones should go into production!

Looks like a Pudao and a longsword had babies, MOK.

You just love taunting me with these wicked shorties, don't ya? Aesthetically, though, it reminds me of the Windlass Coustille without the complex hilt (relatively speaking).