My grail, after all these years!

congrats on getting your grail. Very many search and never find theirs. It is a a fine state of mind to be able to obtain it. Good work :)
 
Seaxes are not totally Wharncliffe as in having a completely straight edge. Many modern seaxes have straight edges because I guess it just matches more what the makers know or their customers expect for that matter.
Usually real historical Seaxes have a slight belly like it's visible in your blade as well.
Now that makes them look a bit like somebody tried themselves on a modern Wharncliffe but didn't succeed. However the slight belly makes for a far more useful blade when cutting things on a board for example.

The reverse Tanto kind of tip makes it more pointed which could bend the very tip more easily but also allows for more detailed work. Having the tip more down also allows for stabbing with a more natural arm movement. Kind of like a Kukri in that respect.

I'm still puzzled why the spine isn't straight but would go up before it slopes down towards the tip?
To bring more weight towards the front for chopping? To create a bigger hole when stabbing? Something else entirely?

Congrats on your fine blade!
If you Google historical seax you will find some blades with runes or cool patterns which might add to your renacting.
HI steel does very good with Electro etching and can make the pattern achieve an almost black color.
 
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Very nice! I too like the seax quite a bit, sort of a Viking Bowie knife in my eyes. And I've also been drawn to the ones made by the HI kamis. Glad you like yours.... you're giving me that old, familiar itch again! ;) :thumbup:
 
As I recall the seax (sax) The Sax Was a iron age weapon that the sax tribe had learned to pound the carbon out of the blades and made them some of the first steel blades.
They where so good at using these sax weapons they became known as Saxons.
As European warfighters began the transition from iron to steel the Saxons where the first Europeans to make steel in a predicable mannor. The iron ore deposits in the earth along the French Spanish border where what enabled them to do this.
As the technology spread south in to what is now Spain the Spanish where able to make large quantities of quality steel for Roman weapons.
Later the Toledo rapiers where famous too.
The Saxons tribe learning to pound the iron In to steel making the Seax changed everything and ended the iron age.
That is a Very historically significant weapon.
Enjoy it.
 
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