A couple I just finished

Phillip Patton

Phillip Patton

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The first is a bowie/fighter. The blade is 9” of 25,000 layers of W2 and wrought iron, with a little 15n20 mixed in. There’s a subtle hamon and wood grain pattern. You can see it in person, but not these pictures.
The handle is desert ironwood, and the guard is aluminum bronze. The spacers are aluminum bronze and G10. The pin is brass. I would prefer to use bronze, but I haven’t found any in the size I like... The brass is the closest color match I could find. The flats of the guard are satin finished, the insides of the guard lugs are mirror polished. The wood is buffed too.

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The second is a seax; my first. The blade is made of four bars. Random along the edge, opposing twist along the spine, and snake pattern down the middle.

Handle is copper and cocobolo.

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I like the blade, but not sure about the handle. What do you all think?

Thanks,
 
Beautiful work Phillip. Love the lines and materials used in the Bowie.
 
We need to invent a new word to describe beauty of this magnitude.

Stunning and Gorgeous won't do.

Eric
 
Outstanding workmanship, one would be honored to own one of these pieces.
 
that is really good work, on both of them! If you look carefully at original seaxs, you will see that there aren't really any straight lines on any of them. You may want to put just a touch of a belly or upsweep toward the tip in the next one. Not a criticism at all, I have made a seax that looks almost exactly like the one you made, too. Just my opinion (based upon looking at a lot of them).
Your work is always nice to see. thanks for sharing.
kc
 
Thanks for the comments, all!


kevin -the professor said:
that is really good work, on both of them! If you look carefully at original seaxs, you will see that there aren't really any straight lines on any of them. You may want to put just a touch of a belly or upsweep toward the tip in the next one. Not a criticism at all, I have made a seax that looks almost exactly like the one you made, too. Just my opinion (based upon looking at a lot of them).
Your work is always nice to see. thanks for sharing.
kc
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Thanks for your comments. :)

It originally had some upsweep. In fact, all the edges were curved, but the first heat treat didn't go well, and by the time I got it done, I lost all my upsweep, and it actually had some down sweep. Had to do some grinding to make it straight. :grumpy:
 
Get rid of them quickly !! Otherwise , instead of getting the turkey cut up , you'll just sit there admiring the blade !
 
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