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Post by mythosequidae on Oct 26, 2008 12:26:27 GMT
Interesting how the guard and pommel are secured.
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Post by Brendan Olszowy on Oct 26, 2008 12:55:23 GMT
This was one of the articles I researched when making my first sword. I opted against that method however. If your steel is already HT'd you'll have no chance of curling it down against the guard - A without going insane from the difficulty, and B without it splitting and breaking away.
Let me know if you need any help making a sword.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2008 14:08:04 GMT
Let me please remind you to read the rules of this particular forum section, that linking to livesteelarmor is against the rules, the information contained therein is chock full of bullsemprini, and whatever little bits of good information are lost in that sea of crap. Please continue to post in this section, just be advised to please read the rules first. Here is a link to SFI, where a stacked yet integral pommel is used, as well as a slotted guard and slab handles. forums.swordforum.com/showthread.php?t=92573
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Post by Matt993f.o.d on Oct 26, 2008 22:07:07 GMT
I find it amusing how they have a special article on that website moaning about how many people have told them their methods are shite. Surely they should have got the hint by now!
Who would bother cold forging a knackered old spring anyway? Why not forge normally and save tons of time!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2008 23:48:05 GMT
I linked this link on Primal Fires the other day for fun. A guy wanted to make what I thought was a costume sword for himself for Halloween. The wolves came out of the woods for that one for sure lol.
Turned out it was for a customer...glad he didn't take me seriously!
Cris
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2008 0:37:21 GMT
The technique he mention is quite plausible, but the splitting with the chisel is the faulty part. Usually, what you should do is simply press fit the guard, then file in the secondary shoulders but rivet/peen them over behind the guard. Splitting with the chisel would make some serious stress areas, as well as making final fitting of the handle quite hard. Peening would be entirely plausible because the tang and shoulder area is most of the time softened or very soft tempered, and would peen over like the end of the tang at the pommel.
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