Wow, Boris, looks great!

Honestly Boris,

When are we going to see "Industry Professional" under your name?! How you find the time for side-projects between your large-scale projects and everyday life eludes me.

Your brass work is very attractive! :cool:

Thanks a lot, guys! I appreciate!

# Andrew
I used both of them. The fittings were made from brass, while the rings are bronze.
Additionally, I used copper for the rivets.

#Scott
I'm not sure, but hope this would happen soon. In any case, it depends only on the community.

Something I've just finished, a 7th century English seax and sheath based on two very similar finds (one from Southampton and one from Suffolk).
P/W blade by Paul Binns, stud castings by Blue, both of whom did excellent jobs of making exactly what I wanted.

Everything else is by me.

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Very nice all around, but I am especially impressed by the scabbard! Really outstanding.

Robert

Michael Pikula:

Here is my latest addition, by George Ezell. The blade is a 11 layer 1084/15n20 twist on the back, with a 1095 edge, and is 92mm long, 5mm thick, and very sharp. The runes spell out George Ezell, which is a nice take on a maker's mark. The handle is laurel burl. The sheath is leather with copper fittings and brass rivets and rings, and looks great.

I have been wanting a small seax like this for some time so when the opportunity presented itself I did not hesitate. This is my first knife by George Ezell, but I hope it will not be my last.

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Oh, man, it really looks like B-2 bomber :idea: :lol:
I've never noticed this similarity so far.

Honestly, I've never intended to get such result.

Well, this was posted elsewhere, but to keep my favorite string alive I added her in here.

This is by Luke Shearer a new, but very accomplished smith. Anyway, early this summer I saw this seax he was making and arranged to purchase it. When finished it went straight to George Ezell who created this sheath for it. Great work to set off the knife. Another highly recommended craftsman!

The Seax is named Warg Tooth, which I will change to a slightly more Anglo Saxon version. The work strongly reminds me of Owen Bush’s work and has a Kentish Notch along the spine. The blade is 11 inches long.

Highest resolution photos here

http://www.flickr.com/photos/100474669@N06/11538497335/

Robert

Here is my new seax from Iron Badger on the Armour Archive.

Here's the ones i currently own

Just got this seax from Ben Potter. It's got a 3-bar pattern-welded blade by Owen Bush, and the rest of the work is by Ben Potter.

A real beauty! He did a fantastic job at finishing this knife to my specifications. I am extremely pleased.

Edit: I think the website where I originally hosted the photos had some bandwidth issues, so I reloaded the photos to this site.

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Harry - Hope its just my pc but nothing to see? If its not just me please repost the pics, I miss Ben's work, & a mix of his & Owen's...!! - Carl

Great stuff on this thread. Here's one that I dont think I've placed here. Blade by Michael Pikula, the rest by me. Overall length 24", blade length 16.5". Width at base: 1.8". Thickness at base: 0.2", more like .25" towards the break. Width where the spine breaks: 1.7". Handle of old ash.

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Three recently finished (in the end of May) langseaxes:

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They share almost identical blades with close lengths, and equal widths and distal tapering. The main differences are in the tip areas and quite obviously - in the hilts.
For the future projects I definitely need narrower blades (36 - 38 mm instead of 40 as now) - then the hour-glass shape of the grips would be not such extreme. The other things I'm not quite pleased with, are the metal fittings of the scabbards, and particularly the rivets - this time I didn't managed to make them as I usually want.

* The Norwegian - my chopper for the events I participate in :D

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One particular reason I made the hilt in such manner was my desire to test a multi-layer construction - here I have steel-copper-bronze-copper-steel billet, all held together with rivets.

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** The guard and the pommel of this one

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have a historical analogue, kept in the Museum in Nijmegen, Netherlands.
The grip - core of an oak, brass, bone, bufallo horn - is, of course, purely fictional.

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*** The last one with non-riveted construction

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is fully product of my imagination - of course, as always, I've tried to make the things historically correct.
The guard and pommel are bronze, the grip - buffalo horn, brass, accacia, walnut.

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Perhaps, I should try to cut the motif in the middle

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in opposite manner - convex ropes and immersed surrounding area - but anyway the result is good for a first try.

The last two langseaxes are intended for sale.
So, if someone is interested in - please, send me a PM in order to provide more images and to discuss the details.

Love the variety, Boris. I quite like the stacked construction seax, and the gentle hourglass grip!

Also really diggin' your admitted fantasy-but-functional looking seax: the world needs more really good looking fantasy pieces

Blunted seax for reenactment fighting.
Oak, deer antler and leather in the handle. Made by me.

Blade based on Bjäärs 17 (Gotland, Sweden, 7th century) and made by TC. Its a realy nice blade, but a bit on the heavy side.


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I have recently received my latest seax, made by Ryan Stevens, and thought this would be a good time to show off some of my collection.

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Top: Ryan Stevens, overall length: 23.6 cm. Crape Myrtle and African Blackwood handle
Bottom: George Ezell, overall length: 20.8 cm. Laurel burl Handle

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Top: Petr Florianek, overall length: 41 cm. The hilt is Boxwood, carved in the 9th century trewhiddle style
Bottom: Antoine Marçal, overall length: 32.4 cm. Maple burl handle

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Top: Owen Bush blade, Walnut hilt by me, overall length: 62.3 cm.

I've made this one for myself and don't actually use it for reenactment, but when I go camping. It's a rather crude work recycling an old machete I've found once. The blade is 25cm long.

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