Tod ,
that is bloody amazing .
good job

Well I had a go turning a kitchen spatula into a katzbalger and this is what I came up with. I will show the scabbard progress in the next day or two

I think the pictures say as much as any words I can write, except for the nice part being it is only the last layer of 4 that needs to be interlaced to get the effect and that the distance between the initial turns needs to be 3 x the strap width. I think I also missed out a picture for the 3rd layer, but any of you interested enough to have a go will soon work out this missing step. - sorry.

Regards

Tod

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Most helpful, Tod! Many thanks!

And here is the scabbard so far. The chape will be at least 2 weeks away I am told and the guard and pommel similar I think.

For the record it was 8'/2.4m of strap for this piece

Regards

Tod

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loving it!!!

can't wait to see it finished

Tod, does that stitch that you use for the back of your scabbards have a name, or is it something you cam up with on your own? I've been staring at it for the past ten minutes trying to figure out how it's done. :confused:

Well this has been a while coming.

Thank you Anders for your patience.

The chape came back to me a little late after 3 or 4 weeks and can be seen in the following pictures. The pommel and guard were delivered in January to the casters and I was promised 3 weeks. After more mails and calls than I care to remember they came back in late May. This ridiculous level of lateness is to be fair unusual for them, but nonetheless it strained our relationship somewhat.

I was originally going to use a casting of the guard, but in the few months that passed I decided to use the master for this sword and so set about cleaning up the pommel casting and forming the guard.

I have not shown any pictures of the pommel pre-clean up, but it is basically a case of filing and sanding to shape.

For the guard I took a flat plate and welded on a 'tang' on which to seat the guard. I then took some flat strip[ and bent it into the form the inside of the guard would take and welded this down to the plate, so that I had a bending jig for the guard. First 1 side and then the other of the guard were hot bent around the jig. The guard was now covered in scale so it was all cleaned down and polished up.

The guard was fitted to the blade and the pommel/tang was sized to slide down and stop at the right point. A horn block was fitted and shaped to size and all the components polished.

The sword has not been peened together yet, so the tang is showing.

The chape has been fitted to the scabbard and so the sword is nearly complete.

When I have fully fitted the sword I will put some full stats up.

Regards

Tod

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I'm incredibly envious. That is stunning. I have been on a landsknecht kick for the last two years and this fits that bill perfectly. Very nicely done, Tod.

Fantastic artwork, it leaves me quite speechless. Not my time period, but extraordinarily beautiful nonetheless.

Kind regards,

Mark

I think I may have just soiled myself! :D Utterly stunning.

But what you really need in your portfolio, Tod, is a nice mid-16th Century basket-hilt! ;)

I was eager to see how you'd bend those quillons without wrecking that beautiful filework. The jig is an impressive solution and quite beyond my current skill set. Can you tell us why you cast straight and then bent rather than just bending the master and casting it that way? Gorgeous work!

Once again, you've managed to make me enthusiastic about a style I previously had little interest in. Jaw-droppingly beautiful work.

I truly enjoy the opportunity to see so much of your work. It seems to me that with each successive piece you out do yourself. I've never been the biggest fan of the sword type before, but I am quite the fan of this one. I love it! Well done, Sir.

WOW! I havn't much more to add. You know I'm a fan of your work. I not only want this set: i want to be a landsknecht now !

Congratulations !

David

Hot darn Tod,

That's just. . . wow, and I don't even have a real collection interest in katzbalgers! That's beautiful indeed!

Thank you for the positive comments.

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Can you tell us why you cast straight and then bent rather than just bending the master and casting it that way? Gorgeous work!

I decided to do this (wrongly as it turned out) because a casting with this level of detail will always need cleaning up and I thought this would be easier done straight. I have now changed my opinion.

I also have some new pictures of the dagger components. I originally started this sculpt myself but after a few hours it was quite clear I didn't have the skill so I turned it over to my friend Matt who has done an amazing job.

The original pictures came from a catalogue picture by Albert Durer I believe and the form is often seen in period depictions of Landsknecht and I also recently saw a picture of Henry VIII wearing a very similar one.

This piece will go off to the casters next week to be made in bronze and I can't wait.

Tod

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Absolutely wonderful work displayed on your latest creation.

The attention to detail, and the resultant product simply stuns me.