So I'm almost done. I annealed the tang today, and once the blade is etched, I'll assemble the lot of it with brass shims and epoxy, and peen it tight before the epoxy sets (to get a tight, snug fit and let the shims 'cure' to the hilt components). I have a new respect for Kirk Lee Spencer, as drawing clean lines on a gently curved metal surface proved trickier than I thought it'd be. I'm no artistic slouch, but maybe it was my sweaty hands, my fear of messing up and having to erase line, or something else, but I was awfully wiggly with my line work…
The image is a 'serpent in the sword' motif, with a U shaped serpent head, but I wanted the 'body' to look scaly, hence the twists. As I intend to make this a fairly light etch anyway, I'm not
too bothered by all the bunching and clumping of the lines.
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