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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2019 18:32:52 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2019 17:55:13 GMT
After pestering my USPS carrier today, the trip from France to New England and my door was five business days. A relic of the past, my route carrier refuses to use his electronic handheld and routinely stalls any insured parcels he'll often say I wasn't there when I see him come and go from the building. Pictures to come but much of what I anticipated rings true. Eastern European and smushed crucuble steel. The guard and frame sheet steel. Opening a window a bit, I can see the blade has been scraped a couple of times and the ying yang of refinishing the surface lays ahead, as had that yataghan that had seen life through the eyes of a belt grinder. The trees of dendrites are clearly seen in magnification and also looks like someone had tried to be gentle with a Dremel long after someone before that had been less gentle. The cutlass/cuttoe shows no sign of it ever being decoratively etched. The blade is machete weight and the piece about 28", or a little more than 71 cm overall. An ample grip length of ebony and the strip of steel as a frame will get some dabs of glue inside. I don't have an electronic scale but I doubt it's more than a pound (454 grams +-). Late 18th century to early 19th century. The tip clip/swedge is sharp, as is the length of the primary edge. I had used papers in polishing that yataghan to 1200 but that is a case of well beyond history. While neither of these two crucible blades had ever shown a mirror polish, a medium such as loose sand may be how I go with this one. My initial window inspection was just done with scrubbies and Bon Ami lengthwise. A very small section got some rubbing with aluminum foil but then under a loupe, I can see the "work" of previous owners and will now go on to remove their swirls and errant scratching. A project that will give me something to stay busy while watching tv this summer. A teaser for now
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2019 19:56:48 GMT
The majority of fitment movement has been stabilized. At one point, someone had fitted wood blocks within the guard. I generally use dense rubber or plastic within such recesses, as self fitting and removable. With this piece, I suspect it was originally seated on a washer, with the guard acting also as a rain seal against the scabbard throat.
Some more quick measurements. The blade is 56cm long of the overall at 70.75cm plus a peen and washer of 2mm. The blade thickness is 5mm right past the cog 13cm from the guard. The width at the guard is 42mm. The distal is linear from that 5mm to 3mm at the bevel of the back towards the foible of a thin 2mm cross section the last handful of blade. The width where the clip itself occurs is 28mm.
More pictures when I have worked on the blade some.
The hilt does show a chain ring at the butt of the handle and the guard has a hole bored for one. While Nardi has some chain, this aspect is something way down on the project list. Having had made some single piece cardboard scabbard patterns for medievalists, wrapped in military 100mph tape, I have long thought about doing leather scabbards. A hurdle again is working out of condo life and really needing a shop/studio room somewhere. Sheet brass and steel something I know how to form. I still get a kick of an ABS journeyman friend hanging onto one of my old tape and cardbord scabbards. Although he had rehilted the sword I sent his way, to this day still uses that transport scabbard. A precise butted seam Curved blades are trickier.
I really do need to add a digital scale, as the big inventory of stuff is becoming a priority if I mean to be serious and data projects.
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Jun 22, 2019 20:09:12 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2019 22:32:05 GMT
What's in a word? Of the same ilk but my hunch would place it more as a Slavic production than Germanic. Certainly they share elements and purpose.
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Jun 23, 2019 8:06:22 GMT
I googled pictures of "Jagdplaute", some look like your cuttoe. More or less a hunting sword made by cutting down an East/South East European hussar saber or similar with a new hilt. This matches your assumptions.
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