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I saw that and I have a wootz tulwar with no finish left on the grip also. I don't know that enamaling is the way to go but I guess it is an option. I was thinking of obtaining a Persian quillion and fabricating a horn grip. I also have Susan Sommers fantasies.
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My ex-wife got her degree in Art and Art Education. Early marraige was a lot of art projects and kid-juggling beween my jobs and her classes.
If I recall correctly, enameling requires heat...certainly for cloisenne ?(sp?), which is glass beads melted into specific form or shapes. It may be that you'd have to make slabs for a full-tang khuk separately, then attach.
Of course, if you had a stick tang, you could make a handle separately and then slide it over and JB Weld it on...maybe... but I think you'd take it from user category to decorative.
I think you'd lose temper if you tried it after the blade was made.
Although, possibly you could do the work exactly and separately, then super-glue the repair in.
Dunno. She got the degree. I seem to remember lots of copper plate, flux of some sort, an electric kiln on the sun-porch, and maybe acid? for cleaning the copper.
Good luck.
Kis
If I recall correctly, enameling requires heat...certainly for cloisenne ?(sp?), which is glass beads melted into specific form or shapes. It may be that you'd have to make slabs for a full-tang khuk separately, then attach.
Of course, if you had a stick tang, you could make a handle separately and then slide it over and JB Weld it on...maybe... but I think you'd take it from user category to decorative.
I think you'd lose temper if you tried it after the blade was made.
Although, possibly you could do the work exactly and separately, then super-glue the repair in.
Dunno. She got the degree. I seem to remember lots of copper plate, flux of some sort, an electric kiln on the sun-porch, and maybe acid? for cleaning the copper.
Good luck.
Kis
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Don't know what the fancy term would be, but we did something called "copper enameling" in jr hi shop class.
Copper sheet was formed to final shape, cleaned, and I think (it was a long time ago) coated with some kind of flux-like stuff. Then something like powdered glass was applied to create the pattern, it came in different colors.
Then cook in an electric furnace to melt the powder and fuse to the metal. And I do mean a furnace, weren't no toaster oven.
Seems like doing the entire outside of a cylinder might present a problem. Slabs or half-rounds I can see.
Interesting....please tell us what you find out.
Copper sheet was formed to final shape, cleaned, and I think (it was a long time ago) coated with some kind of flux-like stuff. Then something like powdered glass was applied to create the pattern, it came in different colors.
Then cook in an electric furnace to melt the powder and fuse to the metal. And I do mean a furnace, weren't no toaster oven.
Seems like doing the entire outside of a cylinder might present a problem. Slabs or half-rounds I can see.
Interesting....please tell us what you find out.
As they say 'never mind'. I looked at my grip. It is forge brazed together from cast steel halves. The heat needed to enamel it,as I understand the process,would melt the braze. I think the original process was niello. I was quite serious about rehilting in Persian style. The Indian temple kukris have the same style grip as my tulwar also some koras are hilted that way. Too small for western hands. 