Posts: 1,757 Location: Storvreta, Sweden
Thu 01 Mar, 2012 7:48 am
Hey guys,
Thank you all for your kind words and questions.
There will now be a lull in postings from me on this thread as I am preparing to leave for London. The sword is finished, but the scabbard still has a few days of work for it to be completed. We shall see if I will complete it in the end.
It is up to the customer to decide if he wants a scabbard for the sword or not: The sword is sold and will be shipped to its home as I return from London.
If any of you happen to be around London over the weekend, please consider visiting the tables Søren (of Albion Europe) and I share at the Fair on Sunday 4th of March at the Marriot Hotel.
The sword that you´ve seen going through some of the last stages of finishing on this thread will be displayed at the Fair, together with a selection of Albion swords.
You can also pick up a catalogue where you´ll get a first introduction to my hypothesis on medieval sword design: perhaps you´ll then understand what it is I am so exited about :-)
http://www.londonarmsfair.com/
About cord wrapping and grips: there is cord under the leather and cord is used to compress the leather as it dries. This upper cord is removed when the glue has set after some 24 hours. In this case I removed the cord a bit earlier, when there still was a tiny bit of humidity left in the leather. Since it was still pliable, I could polish and compress it, to bring out a high gloss and remove the 3-d effect of the cord imprint. there is now only a slight texture of the cord adding a bit to the character of the leather.
For those who are interested I posted a step-by-step thread on Don Fogg´s Bladesmith Forum on how I do leather cover on sword grips. There are some tidbits on tooling and different ways to go about this.
http://forums.dfoggknives.com/index.php?showtopic=15010&st=0
(edit: thanks Sean! We posted simultaneously :-)
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Under wrap of fine cord
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Over wrap to compress the leather and shape the ends up towards guard and pommel