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So here is a little something I made for a friend.
It's a falchion, a fierced weapon in the middle ages, used successfully against plate armor. It's basically a combination of a sword and an axe, ideal for bashing helmets and such
irate:
The sword is around 1,5 kg.
Its full length is 76 cm, the blade is 4,5 cm wide and 6-7 mm thick. The blades spine has a false edge from the tip all the way to the crossguard, and it has two blood grooves (one on each side) This made the sword surpriseingly light.
The balance point is 8 cm in front of the crossguard. The crossguard is 15 cm long. The grip is 11 cm long. The pommel is 5,5 cm long.
The handle is constructed like so: it is full tang, and there are two iron plates riveted to it, for balance. above the iron plates are two pieces of leather (one on each side), so the rivets don't bother the hand. All this stuff is wrapped around with an aprox. 1,5 meter long brown leather strip.
The sheath is hand sewn from 3-4 mm veg. tanned cow hide, with iron accessories.
The blade is forged from spring steel, the other stuff are wrought iron.
Hope you like this little baby
So here is a little something I made for a friend.
It's a falchion, a fierced weapon in the middle ages, used successfully against plate armor. It's basically a combination of a sword and an axe, ideal for bashing helmets and such
irate: The sword is around 1,5 kg.
Its full length is 76 cm, the blade is 4,5 cm wide and 6-7 mm thick. The blades spine has a false edge from the tip all the way to the crossguard, and it has two blood grooves (one on each side) This made the sword surpriseingly light.
The balance point is 8 cm in front of the crossguard. The crossguard is 15 cm long. The grip is 11 cm long. The pommel is 5,5 cm long.
The handle is constructed like so: it is full tang, and there are two iron plates riveted to it, for balance. above the iron plates are two pieces of leather (one on each side), so the rivets don't bother the hand. All this stuff is wrapped around with an aprox. 1,5 meter long brown leather strip.
The sheath is hand sewn from 3-4 mm veg. tanned cow hide, with iron accessories.
The blade is forged from spring steel, the other stuff are wrought iron.
Hope you like this little baby
