Posts: 14 Location: Maple Ridge BC Canada
Fri 07 Jul, 2006 2:29 pm
My latest project
Posts: 1,812 Location: Washington DC metro area, USA
Fri 07 Jul, 2006 2:32 pm
Well done, David. I so-o-o admire people who can actually do things with their hands!
Posts: 69 Location: North Carolina
Fri 07 Jul, 2006 2:45 pm
David,
That is great work! It looks good to me, your son is very lucky that his dad would do so much for him.
Ken
Posts: 115 Location: Boston, MA USA
Fri 07 Jul, 2006 5:14 pm
Very nice. How did you fashion the pommel and cross guard?
Posts: 119 Location: Surrey, BC, Canada
Sat 08 Jul, 2006 11:00 am
Good work David, and nice to see you're getting your son started early. :) And it's also nice to see another Canuck on the forum. Welcome!
Posts: 4,194 Location: Northern VA,USA
Sat 08 Jul, 2006 12:37 pm
And let me say, there is nothing cooler to an 11 year old than a sword of your own! My dad gave me a ratty old wall hanger that'd been sitting in our shed for decades when I was around that age. The blade was essentially a piece of rectangular metal sawn into the vague shape of a blade, blunt as a crowbar, and completely covered with rust and corrosion from some 30 years of sitting in a shed. And I was the happiest kid in the world because of it. :) (spent months trying to clean it, too!)
So congratulations to your son! I hope he enjoys it!
Posts: 14 Location: Maple Ridge BC Canada
Mon 10 Jul, 2006 12:46 pm
Thanks for the response. As for the making of the hilt and pommel, When I first started dating my wife I discovered that her father had a great selection of tools. He had both a woodwork shop and a metal working shop as well. One of the cooler items he had was a milling machine. It was this that I used to shape the hilt from flat brass bar stock. The pomme was just a slice of round bar stock. Not terribly complicated just time intensive.
Dave J
Posts: 8,310 Location: Montreal,Quebec,Canada
Mon 10 Jul, 2006 1:21 pm
David Jackson wrote: |
Thanks for the response. As for the making of the hilt and pommel, When I first started dating my wife I discovered that her father had a great selection of tools. He had both a woodwork shop and a metal working shop as well. One of the cooler items he had was a milling machine. It was this that I used to shape the hilt from flat brass bar stock. The pomme was just a slice of round bar stock. Not terribly complicated just time intensive.
Dave J |
Really great making / restoring a sword for our son. :cool: Not a sharp obviously but still a metal sword, which is a good thing teaching having fun and still being " responsible " . Might not hurt anyone but the occasional table lamp might get " IT ".
Much better to teach responsibility in stages rather than duct tapping your kids with layers of cotton wool so that they never hurt themselves. ( Unless you are making them a Gambison that is. :p ;) )
So did your future wife get a little irritated when you started spending more time with her Dad in his workshop that with her ?
( Just teasing: No harm intended. :D :cool: )
P.S. Oh, wecome to the site. :D
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