Ulahn's Walloon.
Mar 15, 2015 15:26:44 GMT
Post by Uhlan on Mar 15, 2015 15:26:44 GMT
Got this Walloon in last week. It is huge! It is still sharp! It handles well! I love this mongrel to bits! It is an enigma! Questions!
At first glance, at the sellers page, I thought ,,what the f%$k''? I knew the seller from previous encounters, so that was alright.
But that pommel! That looong grip! The rest was sure good. Good old blade, with a long life in the service behind it. Lots of sharpening done on this one. Good old basket. And so I bought the thing for peanuts. Compaired to the prices of the fancier Walloons that is.
This one is really down to earth. Nothing fancy, but the lines are good. Well made.
When you slide your hand into the basket, the thumb will directly go into the thumb ring. Good ergonomics. The basket is roomy enough for a gloved hand too. The grip is just right. The perforations in the guard plates are round.
A good view of the internals.
The pommel. Though not very old, I think it to be a relic from the Historismus times, it is done very well. The facets are hollow ground and that means a lot of expert work. The peen does not look good. Too recent and just banged on.
Here is the gap between basket and blade. Just to the right is something that could be a mark. Right now it is covered under a load of junk. The grip, also from much more recent times, though well wired, cq the tang has moved upward at an angle from the centre of the blade. Like a katana.
I have seen this happening on a lot of pictures of walloons. It could be the effect of semi continious banging the blade into targets.
Though the blade is double edged, one side will do all the dirty work and needs more sharpening than the other side. You can see this in the first picture too. The pommel, because of its slender base, draws the basket up further still. I'll bet that once the screws are out, the whole assembly will sit much better and I can take meassurements for a replacement pommel. The enigma is: have they drawn out the tang in a bit to fit that pommel?
Or was there a long tang to begin with? That would make this Walloon the first two hander on the market! And I tried it with two hands and it worked beautifully! Not from the back of a horse though. It all will be revealed when the grip comes off.
Cheers.
At first glance, at the sellers page, I thought ,,what the f%$k''? I knew the seller from previous encounters, so that was alright.
But that pommel! That looong grip! The rest was sure good. Good old blade, with a long life in the service behind it. Lots of sharpening done on this one. Good old basket. And so I bought the thing for peanuts. Compaired to the prices of the fancier Walloons that is.
This one is really down to earth. Nothing fancy, but the lines are good. Well made.
When you slide your hand into the basket, the thumb will directly go into the thumb ring. Good ergonomics. The basket is roomy enough for a gloved hand too. The grip is just right. The perforations in the guard plates are round.
A good view of the internals.
The pommel. Though not very old, I think it to be a relic from the Historismus times, it is done very well. The facets are hollow ground and that means a lot of expert work. The peen does not look good. Too recent and just banged on.
Here is the gap between basket and blade. Just to the right is something that could be a mark. Right now it is covered under a load of junk. The grip, also from much more recent times, though well wired, cq the tang has moved upward at an angle from the centre of the blade. Like a katana.
I have seen this happening on a lot of pictures of walloons. It could be the effect of semi continious banging the blade into targets.
Though the blade is double edged, one side will do all the dirty work and needs more sharpening than the other side. You can see this in the first picture too. The pommel, because of its slender base, draws the basket up further still. I'll bet that once the screws are out, the whole assembly will sit much better and I can take meassurements for a replacement pommel. The enigma is: have they drawn out the tang in a bit to fit that pommel?
Or was there a long tang to begin with? That would make this Walloon the first two hander on the market! And I tried it with two hands and it worked beautifully! Not from the back of a horse though. It all will be revealed when the grip comes off.
Cheers.