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Post by chrisperoni on Jul 11, 2011 2:31:23 GMT
A few months ago Elheru Aran inspired me to make my own wood waster but after rough shaping the blade, pommel and cross I set the project aside for awhile; just one of those things I kept on putting off in favour of other projects (not to mention taking care of our new baby!). Last night I decided enough was enough and finished everything up. Here is a link to Elheru Aran's original post as I followed his instructions, with my own few aesthetic twists of course: A Waster named "Alainn"I went with Oakeshott Type XIIIb, Style 5 cross, Type H pommel. I was originally going to make a Type J pommel but decided to leave the pommel a bit bigger to keep the sword better balanced and to leave more room to do some pyrography. The wood is red oak, grip has leather under a leather cord wrap, the fuller and ends of the cross have been torched black and the whole thing has been treated with 2 coats of mineral oil. Blade is 30" long and the grip is 4.5"
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Post by shoboshi on Jul 11, 2011 4:11:16 GMT
Holy crap! You made a wooden atrim!
Well done. Kookie on the way!
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Post by Aaron on Jul 11, 2011 5:34:17 GMT
What, no Transformers garb?? :lol:
Nice work, Chris. It looks great.
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Post by Sir Tre on Jul 11, 2011 6:22:18 GMT
awesome dude
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Post by chrisperoni on Jul 11, 2011 12:12:27 GMT
I forgot about that! I'll take another picture with the sword today.
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Post by Todash on Jul 11, 2011 13:51:43 GMT
Beautiful!
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Post by chrisperoni on Jul 11, 2011 15:40:31 GMT
Thanks everyone. I wish I had finished it three months ago as I love just having in in my hand everywhere I go around the house. Finally I can have a sword with me everywhere without my wife being worried I'm going to cut one of the dogs in half, or chop a leg off a chair (my old bokken just doesn't do it for me anyome- ever since I came back around to the euros, my first love with swords, the wooden katana was just not exciting enough for me) Now I want to make a couple for my younger brothers.... fun!
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Post by Brian Timmons on Jul 11, 2011 16:48:07 GMT
Nice work! How did you go about carving the fullers? Did you use a router or chisels/gouges?
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Post by chrisperoni on Jul 11, 2011 17:18:32 GMT
After clamping the blade to a sawhorse I made a quickie jig by then clamping a strip of wood along the length of the blade, just off center. I used my dremel with this cutting guide attachment: But instead of a routing bit I just used a spherical polishing/grinding stone bit- did a pretty good job of grinding out a decent half round fuller. It did leave a couple of burn marks where I pushed too hard (me being impatient) but as I always had planned to burn the fuller black I didn't care. I could have used a router bit if I had the right shape.... probably would have ben even more accurate and even. The grinding stone did want to jump around a bit so the fuller line isn't perfect.
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