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Hello Everyone,
I have been working on this for a few weeks whenever I can steal time away from work. It is a goose quill dao (the kind that is straight until the center of percussion, and then curves). You can use thrusts with this design easily, but you get cuts like a curved blade.
400 layers, random, 15n20 and 1075
The working length of the blade is 17".
Just over 1/4" at thickest point (ridge at forte).
This blade has a complex geometry. It is ridged, but you can't see it well unless you have it in your hand, because I carved the fuller in just above the ridge.
The ridge ends at end of fuller, and blade becomes lens-shaped. (JD Smith, if you read this - I made sure I incorporated all of the feedback about geometry that you gave me on the cutlass-shaped-object into this blade). The blade has a marked but proportional distal taper. The thickest part of the lens is about 1/8". (it really about halfway between egg-shaped and lens-shaped and the false edge is not sharp enough to cut. It just makes the point quite acute and stabby). The primary cutting bevel is one long, continuous convexity. It is very, very sharp.
I have some really nice zirocote, and I plan to make a disk guard from mild steel and bolster and pommel cap from wrought iron.
Hope you like. I have learned a lot getting the geometry right on this.
thanks for looking. Comments, ideas, etc. are welcomed. I have never made a dao (or any saber) before.
Kevin
I have been working on this for a few weeks whenever I can steal time away from work. It is a goose quill dao (the kind that is straight until the center of percussion, and then curves). You can use thrusts with this design easily, but you get cuts like a curved blade.
400 layers, random, 15n20 and 1075
The working length of the blade is 17".
Just over 1/4" at thickest point (ridge at forte).
This blade has a complex geometry. It is ridged, but you can't see it well unless you have it in your hand, because I carved the fuller in just above the ridge.
The ridge ends at end of fuller, and blade becomes lens-shaped. (JD Smith, if you read this - I made sure I incorporated all of the feedback about geometry that you gave me on the cutlass-shaped-object into this blade). The blade has a marked but proportional distal taper. The thickest part of the lens is about 1/8". (it really about halfway between egg-shaped and lens-shaped and the false edge is not sharp enough to cut. It just makes the point quite acute and stabby). The primary cutting bevel is one long, continuous convexity. It is very, very sharp.
I have some really nice zirocote, and I plan to make a disk guard from mild steel and bolster and pommel cap from wrought iron.
Hope you like. I have learned a lot getting the geometry right on this.
thanks for looking. Comments, ideas, etc. are welcomed. I have never made a dao (or any saber) before.
Kevin
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