Photos Finished Seax, A Long Road

[JTknives]

It has been a long road from start to finish with this Seax. You might recognize this blade from a while ago when I was working on the other seax. That other seax was a practices knife to get me ready for this project as I had never made one before. It is now boxed up and getting ready to be shipped out to its new home today. I thought I would share the finished pictures of the blade and sheath as there is never to many pictres on this forum. If any of you are interested in a "How I Made It" thread let me know. I take pictures of every step along the way so i have a rather large collection so far.

here is the stats
Steel is 15n20/1075 with a 5160 core.
Handle is stacked wrought iron, copper and walrus ivory with redwood burl.
Sheath is 10oz veg tan with a diluted golden brown die and Acrylic Resolene with antiquing.
Copper is hammer finished and held in place with hand made copper rivets.
Thanks for looking guys and I hope I can inspire others to go out and push themselves to make something unique.

 

[E.Carlson]

Amazing. Just amazing.

 

[mitch4ging]

Beautiful all the way around!

 

[Knife freaky]

Stunning. I would love to see your WIP photos.

Daniel.

 

[Wild Bill 1]

That looks soooo nice ! Great job .

 

[Tom Lewis]

Very very nice! Beautiful work. Excellent craftsmanship. Thanks for showing.

 

[Jrmysell]

What they all said above. Amazing work!

 

[ThatMiilkGuy]

Gorgeous man. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Ian Fifelski]

Very nice! I love copper on knives, it looks amazing. I also really like damascus that has few layers like this. Oh, and I love wrought iron! This one checks all the boxes for me!

I would love to see how its made too!

 

[panoz77]

I really like that weave or paver design on the sheath, the knife is awesome too.

 

[boy&hisdogs]

That looks great and I would LOVE to see a wip thread!

 

[HSC ///]

nice work , lots of details there, well done

 

[skillgannon]

That looks terrible. You should probably give us a in depth explanation of how and why you made that thing.

 

[john april]

looks great, nice details on the sheath.

 

[Okie405]

I just got a stiffy. Where is the pictures of its making and I hope they include the sheath making.

 

[Maelstrom78]

Diggedy dang. You are keeping that one right?

 

[JTknives]

Yep I pictures of the entire project from start to finish. But I warn you I am not a leather worker so I cant guarantee that i did any of it correctly lol. I will try and remember post a build thread tonight.

 

[The Zieg]

It has been a long road from start to finish with this Seax. You might recognize this blade from a while ago when I was working on the other seax. That other seax was a practices knife to get me ready for this project as I had never made one before. It is now boxed up and getting ready to be shipped out to its new home today. I thought I would share the finished pictures of the blade and sheath as there is never to many pictres on this forum. If any of you are interested in a "How I Made It" thread let me know. I take pictures of every step along the way so i have a rather large collection so far.

here is the stats
Steel is 15n20/1075 with a 5160 core.
Handle is stacked wrought iron, copper and walrus ivory with redwood burl.
Sheath is 10oz veg tan with a diluted golden brown die and Acrylic Resolene with antiquing.
Copper is hammer finished and held in place with hand made copper rivets.
Thanks for looking guys and I hope I can inspire others to go out and push themselves to make something unique.

I like the coin edge spacers.

Zieg

 

[JTknives]

Diggedy dang. You are keeping that one right?

No I am not, it has a loving home that has been patently waiting for it. But there definitely will be more seaxs comping out of my shop. It's a very fun blade to make. Next one will be forged from mutable stacked twist bars.

 

[weo]

Not going to be original, but like everyone else said, that looks great, is that for your ABS? You need to post pics of more of your stuff, JT.

But I warn you I am not a leather worker so I cant guarantee that i did any of it correctly lol.

If it works and looks good, it's done correctly, no?

I've really enjoyed reading about all your projects, I've been dreaming about doing a lot of similar stuff for a few years once I got the damascus bug that switched my blacksmithing focus. If only I had the time to do them and space for them in my small shop.