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Hi everyone,
I have two Anglo-Saxon seaxes (the broken-back variety) for sale. In the Old Germanic languages, seax just means "knife". I think in Swedish, sax still means scissors, interestingly enough.
They are heavily inspired by the historical ones, but depart from them in a a few ways, namely the materials (not bloomery iron and local English materials) and presence of a bolster. The historical ones had only organic hilts, as far as I know. Both have historical beeswax impregnated leather sheaths riveted together with metal fittings. Both are full flat grind to a thin edge with a small convex secondary bevel.
Here are the stats for the first
OAL- 9 1/2"
Blade-4 7/8"
Thickess- close to 3/16" at the break in the spine and tapering in both directions (proximal taper)
Materials:
Antler
Birch Bark
Brass
1084
Price is $275 with free shipping in the United States
And the second
OAL-10"
Blade-5 1/8"
Thickness-~3/16" at break, tapering in both directions
Materials:
Antler
Crape Myrtle
Copper
Birch Bark
1084
Price is $300 with free shipping in the United States
I personally love crape myrtle. The pieces I have are actually prunings from a tree in my parents front yard, so its almost ironic that its so nice of a handle wood. It doesn't come out well in the picture but the curl is tighter than most maple and the interlocking grain creates cool effects, plus its hard, close grained, and takes an awesome finish.
PM or shoot me an email at lukethebladesmith@yahoo.com to buy
Thanks for looking! These are fun Knives to make.
By the way, if anyone is interested, this is my Facebook page where you can see a lot more updates of my work.
https://www.facebook.com/LukeShearerBladesmith
I have two Anglo-Saxon seaxes (the broken-back variety) for sale. In the Old Germanic languages, seax just means "knife". I think in Swedish, sax still means scissors, interestingly enough.
They are heavily inspired by the historical ones, but depart from them in a a few ways, namely the materials (not bloomery iron and local English materials) and presence of a bolster. The historical ones had only organic hilts, as far as I know. Both have historical beeswax impregnated leather sheaths riveted together with metal fittings. Both are full flat grind to a thin edge with a small convex secondary bevel.
Here are the stats for the first
OAL- 9 1/2"
Blade-4 7/8"
Thickess- close to 3/16" at the break in the spine and tapering in both directions (proximal taper)
Materials:
Antler
Birch Bark
Brass
1084
Price is $275 with free shipping in the United States
And the second
OAL-10"
Blade-5 1/8"
Thickness-~3/16" at break, tapering in both directions
Materials:
Antler
Crape Myrtle
Copper
Birch Bark
1084
Price is $300 with free shipping in the United States
I personally love crape myrtle. The pieces I have are actually prunings from a tree in my parents front yard, so its almost ironic that its so nice of a handle wood. It doesn't come out well in the picture but the curl is tighter than most maple and the interlocking grain creates cool effects, plus its hard, close grained, and takes an awesome finish.
PM or shoot me an email at lukethebladesmith@yahoo.com to buy
Thanks for looking! These are fun Knives to make.
By the way, if anyone is interested, this is my Facebook page where you can see a lot more updates of my work.
https://www.facebook.com/LukeShearerBladesmith
