My Custom Seax

[Triton]

You know, our knife design here in the USA is sure true to Anglo-Saxon roots:

Your broken-back, Osberg Seax might as well be a Bowie Knife. It's just like a Confederate Yankee-Killer Bowie.
Your Nijmegen Seax might as well be a WWII bayonette, right off a Garand.

There's no doubt that the Seax was one of the most influential knife designs in all of history. Right after the double-edged dagger.

Yes, the whole subject of seaxs and their influence on modern knives is fascinating. If you want to see some more pictures of seaxes from museums you can see them here: http://1501bc.com/files/information_about_saxes.zip The download takes a few minutes but it's got some nice stuff from museums all over Europe. These photos are courtesy of Jeroen Zuiderwijk in the Netherlands, a fascinating guy with a scary amount of knowledge about the history of the seax and its descendants.

 

[Triton]

Here's another picture. It's funny how porportion fools your eye. The seax above is actually slightly larger than this one:

Neat, tell me what do the runes say?

 

[Uath]

The runes say Graywind

 

[XanRa]

Ah good old futhark- gives it a nice touch huh?
Graywind in old Norse equivalent or just transliterated English?

 

[Uath]

Actually it's in old English (Saxon)

Gra on one side. The a is pronounced like "Say aaah," at the doctor
Wind on the other, pronounced "Vind"

Say it fast as one word Gravind.

I got the knife yesterday. I'll take pictures this evening.

 

[XanRa]

Actually it's in old English (Saxon)

Gra on one side. The a is pronounced like "Say aaah," at the doctor
Wind on the other, pronounced "Vind"

Say it fast as one word Gravind.

I got the knife yesterday. I'll take pictures this evening.

In other words transliterated (the right way too! Good job!)

 

[scotchleaf]

Thanks Scotchleaf, I don't typically post pictures from my collection I don't want to seem like I'm bragging or something. I'm not I've just been very fortunate to find some very talented individuals over the years before they were "discovered." I figured I might make an exception this time since I'd really like to see Ben succeed in this profession, he's too talented to be wasted on some 9-5 office job.

The wood is gorgeous

 

[Uath]

New Pictures:

What you can't feel is the supurb balance (for a stabbing knife) right behind the cross-guard.

 

[Triton]

Wow! That is SO much bigger than the mental image I had in my head. Either that or you are a hobbit I guess. That thing is darned near sword sized! You might have Sting there after all! Again, congratulations on a fantastic piece. Where the heck do you live by the way (general part of the country if you prefer), I'm trying to place the vegetation.

 

[Uath]

Southwest Montana, This is the Madison Valley. My house is on the bottom of the hill I'm standing on:

This is Sphinx Mountain, we're about 60-70 miles north of Yellowstone.