Hi everyone my names James Peterman and I'm a long time lurker of this site.
I've been a hobby bladesmith for 5 or so years now and its taken me a while to get to a level where I feel like my work is decent enough to show a distinguished group of gentleman such as on here. Here's my latest effort so take it easy on me
After sitting on the workbench for the last month and after several screwups on the fittings I finally managed to get this little blade finished up.
This piece had a few firsts for me that took a little head scratching to figure out but I think the end result came out fair. It's based upon the shape of the Thorpes falchion but not to scale with the orignal. Simply my version of a falchion I guess.
The blade is made of 150 or so layers of 1080/15n20 in a random pattern that measures 5/16" thick at the hilt with a full distal taper to the point. There is a single fuller 3/8" wide on one side of the blade and hilt and pomel were cast from brass using the lost foam method. The handle is ash covered with brown sheepskin and the sheath is 8 oz veg tan with a python belly skin inlay. Blade length is 24" and 31" overall. Point of balance is roughly 4" in front of the hilt.
Hope you folks like it and any and all comments are welcome.
I've been a hobby bladesmith for 5 or so years now and its taken me a while to get to a level where I feel like my work is decent enough to show a distinguished group of gentleman such as on here. Here's my latest effort so take it easy on me
After sitting on the workbench for the last month and after several screwups on the fittings I finally managed to get this little blade finished up.
This piece had a few firsts for me that took a little head scratching to figure out but I think the end result came out fair. It's based upon the shape of the Thorpes falchion but not to scale with the orignal. Simply my version of a falchion I guess.
The blade is made of 150 or so layers of 1080/15n20 in a random pattern that measures 5/16" thick at the hilt with a full distal taper to the point. There is a single fuller 3/8" wide on one side of the blade and hilt and pomel were cast from brass using the lost foam method. The handle is ash covered with brown sheepskin and the sheath is 8 oz veg tan with a python belly skin inlay. Blade length is 24" and 31" overall. Point of balance is roughly 4" in front of the hilt.
Hope you folks like it and any and all comments are welcome.
I bet it's hard to not take it out and do some chopping!
