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Post by freq on Sept 23, 2018 11:29:50 GMT
recently started on my old school drizzt build, ironically this was the first style of sword i ever tried to forge but gave up and have been contemplating how to do it ever since finally came up with stock removal method when i purchased a length of semi circular flat steel from local recycle yard this is what i am basing them off _ the drizzt from second edition d and d, this i where i am at the moment blades are a lot slimmer at top and more curved but still more accurate than still have long way to go and lots of thing to work out but its a start
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Post by freq on Sept 28, 2018 11:22:14 GMT
got some work done on these today, slotted out guards and fitted them and started on the engraving on the guard and blade sections
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Post by Scott on Sept 29, 2018 0:10:56 GMT
Nice work.
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Post by tonystark on Sept 29, 2018 2:33:00 GMT
freq- I like what you’ve done so far, but the depiction of Twinkle & Icingdeath in the 3rd picture down in your first post always pissed me off! That’s nothing like the two scimitars described in detail in the Drizzt books. I look forward to seeing your hard work finished 😁
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Post by MOK on Sept 29, 2018 3:24:47 GMT
freq- I like what you’ve done so far, but the depiction of Twinkle & Icingdeath in the 3rd picture down in your first post always pissed me off! That’s nothing like the two scimitars described in detail in the Drizzt books. I look forward to seeing your hard work finished 😁 Not to even mention that they're NOT supposed to be a matched pair at all.
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Post by freq on Sept 29, 2018 11:24:07 GMT
freq- I like what you’ve done so far, but the depiction of Twinkle & Icingdeath in the 3rd picture down in your first post always pissed me off! That’s nothing like the two scimitars described in detail in the Drizzt books. I look forward to seeing your hard work finished 😁 i think these are supposed to be the ones carried by drizzt whilst still in menzoberanzen, i have always hated the official versions we did have a thread going that had a redesign of them someone did dont have twinkle but here is a more accurate icingdeath _ so want to make this but skill levels are way off at moment
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Post by MOK on Sept 29, 2018 11:43:31 GMT
freq- I like what you’ve done so far, but the depiction of Twinkle & Icingdeath in the 3rd picture down in your first post always pissed me off! That’s nothing like the two scimitars described in detail in the Drizzt books. I look forward to seeing your hard work finished 😁 i think these are supposed to be the ones carried by drizzt whilst still in menzoberanzen, i have always hated the official versions we did have a thread going that had a redesign of them someone did dont have twinkle but here is a more accurate icingdeath_ so want to make this but skill levels are way off at moment That was me! Never did get around to Twinkle, yeah... It's silver-hilted, with an inset saphire in the pommel, and I always thought it should be somewhat more compact than Icingdeath, a little straighter, maybe even a little recurved (unlike Icingdeath, this actually is an elven weapon). In the game it was statted as a +5 defender, IIRC... But yeah, the only time Drizzt actually had matching swords was in his subterranean early days.
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Post by Jordan Williams on Sept 29, 2018 22:48:46 GMT
freq- I like what you’ve done so far, but the depiction of Twinkle & Icingdeath in the 3rd picture down in your first post always pissed me off! That’s nothing like the two scimitars described in detail in the Drizzt books. I look forward to seeing your hard work finished 😁 i think these are supposed to be the ones carried by drizzt whilst still in menzoberanzen, i have always hated the official versions we did have a thread going that had a redesign of them someone did dont have twinkle but here is a more accurate icingdeath_ so want to make this but skill levels are way off at moment You can buy shamshir hilts off of ebay, maybe you could blue one and inset the stones that way?
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Post by tonystark on Sept 29, 2018 22:56:50 GMT
freq- I like what you’ve done so far, but the depiction of Twinkle & Icingdeath in the 3rd picture down in your first post always pissed me off! That’s nothing like the two scimitars described in detail in the Drizzt books. I look forward to seeing your hard work finished 😁 Not to even mention that they're NOT supposed to be a matched pair at all. Yeah that’s the point I forgot to add! lol Icingdeath had a panther head on the hilt I believe, and Twinkle had some kind of gems to signify stats on it I think.
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Post by tonystark on Sept 29, 2018 22:59:23 GMT
freq- I like what you’ve done so far, but the depiction of Twinkle & Icingdeath in the 3rd picture down in your first post always pissed me off! That’s nothing like the two scimitars described in detail in the Drizzt books. I look forward to seeing your hard work finished 😁 i think these are supposed to be the ones carried by drizzt whilst still in menzoberanzen, i have always hated the official versions we did have a thread going that had a redesign of them someone did dont have twinkle but here is a more accurate icingdeath_ so want to make this but skill levels are way off at moment Hmmmm well those don’t look like any Drow weapons I’ve ever read described. Maybe surface elf designed, and taken away from some that became slaves perhaps??
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Post by freq on Sept 30, 2018 11:12:34 GMT
i think these are supposed to be the ones carried by drizzt whilst still in menzoberanzen, i have always hated the official versions we did have a thread going that had a redesign of them someone did dont have twinkle but here is a more accurate icingdeath_ so want to make this but skill levels are way off at moment Hmmmm well those don’t look like any Drow weapons I’ve ever read described. Maybe surface elf designed, and taken away from some that became slaves perhaps?? yeah not going from the descriptions, going from the 90s artwork (back when campaign set came out) lots of images of this type of blade though from what i remember drizzts first set were adamantine so they should be black metal not silver, all the artwork changed once the licensed blades came out now hes only drawn with the stupid "official" ones
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Post by freq on Sept 30, 2018 11:14:21 GMT
i think these are supposed to be the ones carried by drizzt whilst still in menzoberanzen, i have always hated the official versions we did have a thread going that had a redesign of them someone did dont have twinkle but here is a more accurate icingdeath_ so want to make this but skill levels are way off at moment You can buy shamshir hilts off of ebay, maybe you could blue one and inset the stones that way? could do that but then i would loose the chance to improve my metal casting/carving skills lol, for me thats 90%of the fun learning new skills
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Post by tonystark on Oct 1, 2018 2:23:49 GMT
Hmmmm well those don’t look like any Drow weapons I’ve ever read described. Maybe surface elf designed, and taken away from some that became slaves perhaps?? yeah not going from the descriptions, going from the 90s artwork (back when campaign set came out) lots of images of this type of blade though from what i remember drizzts first set were adamantine so they should be black metal not silver, all the artwork changed once the licensed blades came out now hes only drawn with the stupid "official" ones Yeah that’s the pictures I was used to seeing, but as you so astutely pointed out, the “new ones” (sorry I can’t even call them Drizzt’s scimitars) are the way they’re depicting in all the newer edition books 🤮 I look forward to how you interpret the ones you are crafting!
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Post by rjodorizzi on Oct 9, 2018 14:25:30 GMT
I'll be interested in seeing the finished product! Always liked these books and that character and felt an interpretation never got it quite right!
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Post by freq on Oct 15, 2018 9:45:09 GMT
decided to derivate from the design on the pommel and went with brass door knobs( i think) just because they looked cool and i found a matching pair, also got the blades sanded and the engraving done
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Post by tonystark on Oct 16, 2018 2:16:37 GMT
😁👍🏽
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Post by MOK on Oct 17, 2018 1:18:57 GMT
They do look the part! Surprisingly accurate to the artwork, really.
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Post by freq on Dec 29, 2018 12:00:59 GMT
finally got some time to spend on these,( what with work, baby and injuring my hand) on closer examination realized the blade has a series of scrolls or curves in the dark section of the blade so decided to carve them in, drew them on for mapping then decided didnt like the randomness of it all and redid it as a pattern,also added in a spiderweb pattern into the recess at the base of the blade (because drow) carved one side with a diamond bit in the dremmel, that killed the burr then i went old school and hand engraved the other side, that was hard but interesting, still have to engrave the second blade but progress has been made still long way from done lol
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Post by tonystark on Dec 31, 2018 3:43:57 GMT
Sorry to hear about your hand! Is your baby a newborn? If so I can completely empathize. I BARELY slept the first 3 months of my daughter’s life, so I know it can really leave your batteries running on low 😕 On the upside the work you’ve done looks incredible!! On the blade that has the empty “slot” above the guard, have you (not to sound unoriginal) thought about just taking a panther design from the 800,000,000 panther tattoos you can find online, unless you happen to be good at drawing animals of course? My apologies, I’m overtired and besides a spider, a panther design was the first thing that came to mind. Unless of course you want an Illithid or Beholder on there? LOL There’s not much else beyond spiders that the Drow like, respect, or even fear!
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Post by freq on Dec 31, 2018 4:05:32 GMT
baby is 9 months old, but working during week means only get significant time together on weekends, hand is all good got caught by couple of hundred kgs of steel at work and burst two blood vessels in the back of my hand and blew up like a balloon, nothing serious (went purple from fingertips to elbow) lol, panther would be cool but trying to keep it "drow like" as they predate drizzt getting guenhyvar, got second sword engraved just have to stain and clean the blade up will post pics later
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