Posts: 1,086 Location: Austin TX
Wed 16 Apr, 2014 12:53 am
Thanks guys! I'm tempted to go red for the grip again, with white lacing on top. It may be a bit redundant with my other projects though. I could try blue with white lacing, and make this a very french sword :) with a blue scabbard with fleur de lys theme...like a connetable sword....problem with blue is that I had bad surprises with this color applied to this leather (good but old ebay hides, with an odd patina that makes blue surface with a nasty bronze hue. Will keep thing about this today.
Edit - forget the above. Just tried my blue Fieblings and though my fingers are now blue as hell the grip as turned to red copper, just like last time. Going black...
Tim, of course I'm planning a scabbard, I'm always planning something though, and it could take a while before this sword gets one. See the pict below, these are my current projects (I've peened the Henry V gen 2 since)...but still, snail pace, and enough to keep me busy for years :) I will likely make a wooden scabbard core to store it, because paper scabbards soak the blade oil, and you end up with marks, and I hate buffing, sanding, cleaning.
Dean, all your suggestions could potentially work, or turn very bad :) I too am concerned with the idea of tiny washers held in place by the nail, seems too easy to rip these off. I will stick to an Albion style diamond wrap, it seems tricky enough as it is. For this project, I learned brass wedges, hot peening with a peen block, and now this elaborate wrap. That's good enough for me and I need to wrap it up instead of continuing to add complexity. Time to move on to something else!