HI Seax + special etch by Ferrous Wheel (pics!)

Daniel Koster

Daniel Koster

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I'm not feeling 100% today, so I'll let the pics do the talking.

I had Keith (Ferrous Wheel) do a special etching in Ogham (based on Edo Nyland's latest research).

The inscription was apparantly too long so it got wrapped around the other side. Which I Like Very Much !! :D

It reads:

"If ye are prepared, ye shall not fear"


Pics - as promised:


seax-best.jpg



l-side-ogham.jpg



r-side-ogham.jpg



sheathed.jpg



mirror-polish.jpg



r-side-unsheathed.jpg



parting-shot.jpg
 
That is very nice. It is cool how it wraps around the blade. Great work. How deep are the etchings if I may ask. Thanks
 
If I get the energy, I'll take the handle down a bit like I did with my Patang. I had it made large on purpose - to act like a built-in guard and keep your hand from slipping forward.

By the way - I love the sheath. I was considering changing it - but it does exactly what I want it to do and the blade stay put.

More pics:

handle-qtrvw.jpg



handle-top.jpg



handle-side.jpg
 
Very, very nice!
That oversized handle-to-bolster shape is identical to the grip on my "!" M43. Sometimes it feels a hair too big for my hand (and makes me wonder about sanding it flush to the bolster), but other times it locks my hand on just right, and so I've just left it alone to this point.
 
Very nice! I should have had some martial-type saying for my Pen Knife, but I couldn't think of anything short besides Molon Labe ("Come and Take It"). However, adding Greek to a US-designed, Nepalese-built knife with Norse runes already on it might give the poor thing a bad case of multiple-personality disorder...
 
who went in on the HI seax project and made it happen. (Beo, Uncle, Raghorn, Sweet, Sarge, Ruel, Pen) And thanks to those who financed my seax in a time of no $$$ by patying for the rube etches. I got killed on my mis-estimation of the shipping, but the end justified the means.

Etching services will be open for takers (I believe there's a Ranger insignia that needs to go on a khuk) again in October.

Keith
 
Originally posted by Ferrous Wheel

Etching services will be open for takers (I believe there's a Ranger insignia that needs to go on a khuk) again in October.

Keith [/B]
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Keith, that is some fine work. I'll be in contact with you next month :) I picked up a nice seax from Uncle Bill and the handle is currently soaking up hooflex.
 
I'll hafta have you remind me nearer the time. Until then, you might thinnk about what type of runic inscription you want. I can fit about 12-16 characters per side.

Keith
 
Very nice work. And nice pix. :)


p.s. what does it say? I don't read ogham. I mean - is it English written in Ogham? Or is it Irish or Welsh written in Ogham?
 
Ferrous,

I don't have any runes I want put on my AK Bowie but can you do a simple drawing,
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of this etched on the bowie. I'm still working on it so it'll be awhile and I have to have Terry whip me up a better sheath.
 
Beo - it's quite complicated and took a while to get it straight. According to Edo Nyland's theories, Ancient Ogham is not coded Gaelic, but coded Basque (using runes) and in VCV (Vowel-Consonant-Vowel) format. So, using the quote above (and with the help of a nice Basque professor) I found the equivalent words in Basque (that were also VCV) and compiled the saying.

I've actually grossly oversimplified the process. If anyone is really interested, I can do a write-up giving a full accounting. It's very fascinating and I spent probably about 20-30 hours gathering and putting it all together.

Of course, if I was a monk in the 7th Cent., I would have been fluent in Basque and Gaelic and had VCV flashcards in front of me - and this whole thing would have taken an hour at most...:rolleyes: :(

'Twas fun, though!
 
Very interesting Pen. Whenever you have some time I'd be interested in a write-up. But just whenever.

I'd never heard this about Ogham being coded Basque. What about all of the Insular inscriptions (British Isles inscriptions) I wonder.

Basque is quite an interesting language, though modern Basque does indeed have many loan-words from French and Spanish, the language itself is not part of the Indo-European language family. And it is not known to be directly related to any other language that we know of. But presumedly Basque is the remnant of languages which were spoken in Europe before the Indo-Europeans came. (So the European languages, like Latin, Greek, Germanic, English, Norse, French, Spanish, etc., etc. are in a sense not indigenous to Europe).

good stuff (your Basque prof. wasn't Trask by any chance, was it?)


cheers,
--B.
 
Nice work Keith.
Thanks for sharing it with us Pen (hope you are feeling better).
Regards,
Greg
 
Sorry, being a newbie here I kind of missed all this stuff. What's the historical background on a SEAX (sp?)? Has anybody used one of them, how do they perform? They look pretty cool for a working blade. Also, the inscriptions, are they acid etched? All in all, very nice!
 
Originally posted by truck
Sorry, being a newbie here I kind of missed all this stuff. What's the historical background on a SEAX (sp?)? Has anybody used one of them, how do they perform? They look pretty cool for a working blade. Also, the inscriptions, are they acid etched? All in all, very nice!
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Truck,

The Seax (or Saex, Sax, Scramsax, Scramseax, etc.) is a 'Germanic' knife-form. Found largely in Anglo-Saxon England and in Scandinavia. It is also one-edged like a khukuri (there may be a 'genetic' connexion between the blade-forms in misty antiquity, but it's hard to know).

The word Seax is ultimately also connected with the name of the Saxons (presumably the Saxons took their name from the knife-name) - and the name element '-saex' is found in many place-names (not surprisingly): Wessex ('West Saxons'), Essex ('East Saxons'), Sussex ('South Saxons'), etc.

I found one decent page on Seaxes here:
http://www.regia.org/seax.htm


I have not used mine extensively as yet. But I think the 'Seax' is one of the 'ancestors' of the American Bowie knife, so there is probably some similarity to the Bowie in use too.

Keith 'Ferrous Wheel' acid-etched the runes, ogham, etc. and did a grand job of it too! :)


Some more nice pix are available here:
http://himalayan-imports.com/one-time-knives.html

(scroll down a little bit)

hope this helps,
--Ben
 
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