Posts: 249 Location: Arizona
Wed 01 Jun, 2011 4:27 pm
Thanks Mikko,
You have a lot of good points. I guess that when I started this project I thought that it would be much easier to make a historically accurate piece than it really is. I just saw the spotlight article, "
Oakeshott: the man and his legacy" on page two where it says that a XVIIIa can have any pommel and any guard and thought it would be a piece of cake. I guess I'll just have to be diligent about this project, consider it a learning experience, and just see how closely I can get to the things I want.
Below are some detailed markups of my new design. It's pretty different from the other one (with the exception of the blade) and I am still welcoming the comments/criticisms/suggestions etc. of anyone who cares to post them.
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I did these to scale as best as I could and got measurements (fairly accurate ones) using adobe illustrator.
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I am not sure if this falls neatly into any category. The hilt is too long for a XVIIIa, hilt and blade are both too short for a XVIIIb and the blade may not be broad enough at the base for a XVIIIc. (All of this is according to the info I have picked up in the spotlight articles below) I used the sword that Peter Johnson used for Albion's "Principe" (an XVIIIc still in production) as one of my main inspirations, but I don't know if I can really consider this a XVIIIc or not. There are good specs on that sword given by Peter on a post in this site, and they are similar to this one. The spotlight article on XVIII's make mention that the guard for a 'c' says that the "cross often horizontally S-curved" and "pommel usually of wheel form" but neither of the Albion XVIIIc's have that feature, so I am hoping that this design could get a fairly high rating on the historical scale.
Once again, I appreciate your input. This project is still fluid, so I welcome the comments/criticisms/suggestions etc. of anyone who cares to post them.
Cheers to all of you!