Seax revisited

kronckew

kronckew

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hi y'all,

after the last go-round about seax's & comments about fighting styles and guards, etc. i comissioned a carbon steel seax with a bronze guard, thought i'd share these pics with you as it arrived today.

the top in the 1st is my 20" Kobra as a comparison, the 10.5x0.25" bladed seax with guard is next then my original damascus 7.25x0.25" seax on bottom. 2nd photo shows seax's in more detail.

seax1.jpg


seax.jpg


i've got a can of guiness cooling in the icebox which is slated to be it's 1st victim, ala satori, after i a. sharpen it a bit, b. drink the guiness.

Millie insisted on being in the picture.
 
Beautiful knives, all. Was the new seax made locally there in the UK?

I'd like a longer and more historically accurate seax than my HI's.

Who's to say they didn't have guards, eh? Like khukuris, made in many, many variations.

Neat baldric rig on the kobra- I did something similar on a large khuk.

Something about a seax says "boot knife".


Ad Astra
 
Great seaxs..seaxi...seaxeses? (whatever);)

I love that middle one! It just screams "Shove me into your enemy until the guy behind him says 'ow!'"

thanks for sharing:)

Jake
 
Works of Art.

How much does Art charge these days? :D


Really lovely work.


(don't mind me, I just had computer "issues," resolved by a very nice person in the Philipines who explained the problems. "These things happen," she said.


rassafrazzzaratsafratz
 
Nasty said:
*LOVE* the boot Seax!
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Aye. The smaller one's finish looks almost jeweled... unless it's a trick of the light and whatever "all" is on it...

<we northerners have a can of "oil">
<we southerners have a can of all">


Ad Astra

suntan all, motor all, 3-in1 all, all kinds of all
 
for ad astra, and the rest of y'all

they were both made by rod matless here in the UK, see www.interknife.co.uk for others,
he also does variations on the theme, like the guard on the seax & moddifying sheath to work with it.

the smaller traditional seax is made of pattern welded steel (a.k.a. 'damascus') in a birdseye pattern.

also ah doan' 'awl' them, i use a beeswax paste on them (and the rest of my steel babies) works better than wd40 &/or mineral oil (trick i learned from someone at the royal arms museum here)
 
Ad Astra said:
Aye. The smaller one's finish looks almost jeweled... unless it's a trick of the light and whatever "all" is on it...

<we northerners have a can of "oil">
<we southerners have a can of all">


Ad Astra

suntan all, motor all, 3-in1 all, all kinds of all
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Around here we have oil, all, and orl. Also, people don't like to include the letter "L" in various words like "cold" and "old". It sounds like people have a chronic headcold. never understood it. The lower north/upper south is a weird place with many colloquial forms of speech. It's like they seep up out of the southern banks of the Wabash River and ride the tide of the Ohio just to wash up on the southern indiana and northern Kentucky banks and breed to form some kind Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome/Gollum-like language;)

Jake
 
That's twice in one thread you cracked me up, Jake. :D

Kronckew, congrats on these beauties... I saw some unforgettable arms in Bamburagh, Stirling & Edinburgh castles a few years back. You're in a neat place to study medieval arms...

I know I just massacred the spelling of Bamburagh castle- too lazy too look it up... but that is one neat place. It was originally romano-celtic (built around 500-600 ad, IIRC) became saxon, then was taken by vikings. Much history, bet you've been there. It's right on the Scot-English border...


Ad Astra

FOUND IT!

Clicketh here, an' be not sorry:

http://www.bamburghcastle.com/

'til well worth the trip
 
Nice seaxes, Kronc. I'll take that old one on the bottom any day. Guardless is good, lo drag, easy to handle. I see the seax as the Anglo version of the finnish pukko, another guardless work knife. The scandinavians looked on guards as 'training wheels' for work knives.

Yeah,Ad...ther castles there are awesome. Edinburgh was most impressive! A castle that has never been stormed! built on the top of a rock outcropping, etc. When I was there, one of the shops housed a knifemaker, who was taking Sheffield sgean dubh blades and mounting them in the black wood, and carving then and adding silver pins. They were pricey, but pretty neat and somewhat custom. I figure Pen should been there to see that.
 
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