Need help figuring out hilt

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For my first sword build I think I want to create a replica of General Kael's sword from the movie Willow, favorite from childhood. I'm having trouble figuring out how to attach the smaller guard hgiher up on the sword, can anyone give me some pointers?

413823_0 by Dave Hamilton, on Flickr

413827_2 by Dave Hamilton, on Flickr
 
You're talking about the "horns" just below the "sharp" portion of the blade right?
It looks to me like it's a collar of steel or something with the horns welded on. The blade above and below the collar looks to be the same width, so there must be some other way of securing it...
 
You're talking about the "horns" just below the "sharp" portion of the blade right?
It looks to me like it's a collar of steel or something with the horns welded on. The blade above and below the collar looks to be the same width, so there must be some other way of securing it...
yes exactly, i was thinking how its attached, pinned but no sign of that and would cause a weak point, possibly folded over and hammered to secure it around a protrusion in the actual blade steel. the sword is based on a great sword of some kind, a hand and a half either Scottish or German, I have seen it before. The historical sword, the small horns are part of the blade.

I wonder if it can be done like a habaki, slipped up from the hand up the blade, hammered over around a protrusion on the sides....
 
The way they were done historically, or at least the ones that I have seen, the protrusions are cut out of the bar stock during the forgoing process with a chisel, then bent outwards.
The example you show doesn't look like that is the case though. Thats why I said welded.
 
yes exactly, i was thinking how its attached, pinned but no sign of that and would cause a weak point, possibly folded over and hammered to secure it around a protrusion in the actual blade steel. the sword is based on a great sword of some kind, a hand and a half either Scottish or German, I have seen it before. The historical sword, the small horns are part of the blade.

I wonder if it can be done like a habaki, slipped up from the hand up the blade, hammered over around a protrusion on the sides....
Forge weld ?
 
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