Frontier Seax

[church&son]

I love the Seax style blade shape. It was carried and used by the Saxons, Angles, Viking and Germanic tribes dating back to the fifth century.
This is my interpretation of what I think one would have looked like through the hands of an American frontier blacksmith.
18" overall with 12" sharp
Iron is from an old truck leaf spring, forged in the charcoal forge and quenched in brine water. Hot cut and hot filed.
Bolster is a scrap copper pipe fitting.
Handle is Maple stump from a dead tree on our place with a rawhide wrap.
Sheath is left side cross-draw, some of my deer rawhide over boot leather with a simple concho made from a snuff lid and a antler button from the same deer.

$250.00 shipped USA (International actual cost) PayPal (I pay fees)or USPSMO
Thanks.......Randy

 

[BloodGroove4570]

Very Kool & Unique

 

[atcgriffin]

Wow, that's awesome!

 

[ouporblowup]

wooow thats one badass knife man

looks like the knife rambo would carry if he was a cowboy

 

[church&son]

Thanks Gents.........Randy

 

[jessiebf]

Pedantic side-note: I think the word Saxon actually comes from "seax." They used those things with unholy efficiency, anyway. Found them useful for getting under the spears of a shield wall and, uh, doing PETA-unapproved things to the enemy's horses.

Cool-looking knife. Almost a short sword.

 

[church&son]

Thanks, I don't remember where I copied this from but they state it very well;

From small knives with 3-4 inch blades to actual swords with blades of 27-28 inches and always single-edged, the profile of the seax varied a great deal. The original version of this large knife served from camp work to cutting work, on shipboard, and for fighting if a sword or axe was not available

and this from Octavia which says dagger

seax - the curve-bladed dagger which gave its name to the Saxons; all freemen carried one

But my favorite

, Beowulf uses a seax to nearly hack a dragon apart as it dies.

Not many Dragons documented in the American Frontier but I just saw a Bigfoot sighting on the news last night..................Randy

 

[ScottRoush]

Aye... a sax, a seax. a langseax, a scramseax... all great tools, some for killing, some for weeding, some for the bush. That one is a jewel.

 

[church&son]

And Broken Back Seax. Thanks Scott, means a lot from you.....Randy

 

[drducati]

This thing has a certain unholy charm!