What do y'all think of this?

Phillip Patton

Phillip Patton

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I'd especially like some input re the handle. I've never done a braided handle wrap like this, so I didn't quite know what I was doing, so the braided part ended up shorter than I wanted it. Does it look stupid? Do I need to start over?
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Btw, the blade is bronze, the handle wrap is leather lace. Total length about 22.5" Thanks for looking, and for your opinions.
 
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Sir,

Nice blade, wrapping needs to be longer, IMHO. It looks "unbalanced" for lack of a better word

I suspect that the junction of the metal and braid would be very uncomfortable in the hand as well


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Yeah, not quite large enough for that handle Phillip. I think it would look great if it were full length, or if you added wood slabs on the butt end maybe.

Heck of a blade by the way. :thumbup:

-Peter
 
I agree with the others. It does need to be longer but WOW what a fabulous looking blade.
 
plus the longer wrap would be functional in the sense that it would protect your hand when swinging it.

Nice, even, work. :thumbup:
 
The braid doesn't look stupid, it just needs to be longer. I know it's hard to find really long leather sometimes, you might have to splice.

Just do it over....

Nice work on the blade, nice piece of bronze....
 
sweet blade phillip. mack was asking me how you ground the bevels so even, i told him you were good at what you do :D
 
Add another braid of a different color to give it a different appearance. As they said make it longer.
 
I love the look of the blade, the overall look of the knife to be honest, but I agree the wrap needs to come down further. The only other thing I would do different is I would have used round leather lacing to do the first turks head, then the flat leather and possiblely another round turks head at the end of the wrap. I find that the round lacing gives a bit more bulk to stand the turks head out from the rest of the wrap.
 
I've got all kinds of questions going through my cranial cavity about the bronze but I have no idea where to start.
How hard is it? Is it more difficult to work than steel? How is it tempered? How cool is it that you made a bronze sword?:D
 
Well, I was hoping you all would say, "nah, that looks fine; go ahead and sell it". But you didn't, so I re-did it. :-D The original plan was to have just the braided part. I only added the turks head the first time around to fill in. So here's how it looks now:
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I think it's much better, so thanks guys for pushing me. ;-) Mack, to answer your questions: Bronze is not real hard, though this particular alloy (964) is on the high end. Steel is much harder, though this would be tougher and springier than wrought iron. It's very easy to forge, easy also to grind and polish, but awful to machine. It's not heat treated like steel. It can be annealed with heat, but if you want it harder, it needs to be cold worked. Pretty cool. :-)
 
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Spectacular. Thanks for all the info. I am fascinated with all of your work and this is no exception.
 
That is too cool. Who out there doesn't want a Phillip Patton bronze sword and dagger combo?
 
Freaking awesome, is what I think. The longer wrap definitely looks much better, though I think you wouldn't be remiss with Turk's heads at either end. But I might be biased. :)
 
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