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Bruno Giordan
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 Posted: Sat 02 Dec, 2006 8:18 am Post subject: How to dress this blade? Suggestions wanted |
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I have this nice high quality steel blade, diamond shaped, 32.5 cms long.
The tang is 1 cm thick, so it can be flattened and elongated a little bit yet.
How would you finish it?
Rondel dagger? Bollock dagger?
http://bghomofaber.googlepages.com/pics
Suggestions and discussion welcome.
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Henrik Bjoern Boegh
Location: Agder, Norway Joined: 03 Mar 2004
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Hi Bruno,
I think I would used it for a ballock dagger, but that's just my taste :P Perhaps with a birch handle and perhaps some bronse fittings..?
I like the look of the blade, I'd like to see what you end up doing with it. 
Cheers,
Henrik
Constant and true.
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Bruno Giordan
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| Posted: Sat 02 Dec, 2006 9:32 am Post subject: |
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| Henrik Bjoern Boegh wrote: | Hi Bruno,
I think I would used it for a ballock dagger, but that's just my taste :P Perhaps with a birch handle and perhaps some bronse fittings..?
I like the look of the blade, I'd like to see what you end up doing with it.
Cheers,
Henrik |
I remember your work, it was very nice.
I have a carpenter who could help me with this handle.
My favourite would be teh rondel o the baselard form (aptest for an italian fighter, if I'm not wrong).
Bollock is nice but it seems to require high wood carving skills.
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Chad Arnow
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| Posted: Sat 02 Dec, 2006 9:34 am Post subject: |
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I think it would look great mounted as a baselard.
ChadA
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Jean Thibodeau
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| Posted: Sat 02 Dec, 2006 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Chad Arnow wrote: | | I think it would look great mounted as a baselard. |
I agree with that: A baselard style seems perfect fro this blade. Looks a bit too wide at the guard for a Rondel ( mostly a stabbing type blade ). A ballock would also work I think.
Now this is only my personal obsession with having as strong a tang as possible but I would keep it thick at least at the shoulders and might distal taper it in thickness towards the pommel.
Although there is a lot of beef on that tang so I guess it could be widened a bit and made thinner and still be more than strong enough.  
You can easily give up your freedom. You have to fight hard to get it back!
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Martin Wilkinson
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I'd say a baselard would work best.
"A bullet you see may go anywhere, but steel's, almost bound to go somewhere."
Schola Gladiatoria
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Bruno Giordan
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| Posted: Sun 03 Dec, 2006 12:39 pm Post subject: |
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What about this deltin handle?
I cannot classify it, is this also a baselard?
http://www.deltin.it/2134.jpg
I see that it has a flat blade, I think I could retrodate mine by grooving a little fuller at the first third of the blade.
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