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Post by durinnmcfurren on Jan 20, 2024 22:44:38 GMT
Type H pattern welded sword by Emiliano Carillo. 79 cm blade or so, 5.4 cm at the hilt, 2.2 cm fuller, Geibig type 3 blade. The hilt parts are cast, not inlaid, because that would have added another $5000 or so to the cost (maybe one day in the future I will have someone replace the hilt parts with proper inlaid stuff...). This is a pretty typical early to mid 10th century design, I would say.
Grip is 9.1 cm long and very thin, as I requested. One thing about this thin grip, with the long upper guard, it keeps the guard from digging into the hand uncomfortably with a hammer grip!
Although 1370 grams, with a balance point of 13 cm from the lower guard, the sword feels fairly nimble while also having a tremendous blade presence. The name Karlsbrandr or 'free man's brand' is in honor my grandfather Karl, a Swedish immigrant who loved viking stuff all his life.
My images of this do not do it justice. Emiliano had a professional photo shoot done, and I will hopefully be able to share a link to those pictures when he gets them!
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Greg E
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Post by Greg E on Jan 20, 2024 23:07:01 GMT
Looks great!
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Post by madirish on Jan 21, 2024 3:29:03 GMT
very nice!
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Post by paulmuaddib on Jan 24, 2024 8:12:48 GMT
Nice. What kind of wood is that handle?
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Post by eastman on Jan 25, 2024 2:16:44 GMT
looks like curly birch
very hard to find in North America. I've bought from this seller in Estonia - curlybirchwood.com/
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Post by durinnmcfurren on Jan 25, 2024 17:17:00 GMT
Curly birch, or Karelian birch, yeah. It comes primarily from Finland and western Russia/Ukraine. There is at least one viking sword that has a handle made from it, a type L from Norway, so the vikings did use it, and probably left it visible based on the way the sword looks (the handle is actually very well preserved, I'll find a link to it when I am home later).
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