Quick question about fabricating a pommel cap.
I've got a post war M43 with a horn handle but no pommel plate. Only one rivot/peen or tang is present.....
I'm going to try to fabricate a replacement pommel to simply protect the end of the horn slabs but would like some input before I go too far in the process. My thought is to take some stock steel about .25cm thick, cut a blank the approx. size of the handle then hammer it into shape on an anvil or form of some sort. Tap a hole for the one rivot and maybe make a second fake hole filled with something for aestethics (sp?).....to make it look nice....
I've already made a practice blank out of aluminium but that is as far as I've gone. Any thoughts.....the ovoid pommel is approx. 3 cm in width and 5.8cm long (at the longest & widest points)
Thanks,
Steve
I've got a post war M43 with a horn handle but no pommel plate. Only one rivot/peen or tang is present.....
I'm going to try to fabricate a replacement pommel to simply protect the end of the horn slabs but would like some input before I go too far in the process. My thought is to take some stock steel about .25cm thick, cut a blank the approx. size of the handle then hammer it into shape on an anvil or form of some sort. Tap a hole for the one rivot and maybe make a second fake hole filled with something for aestethics (sp?).....to make it look nice....
I've already made a practice blank out of aluminium but that is as far as I've gone. Any thoughts.....the ovoid pommel is approx. 3 cm in width and 5.8cm long (at the longest & widest points)
Thanks,
Steve