Lovely sword and it just shows how much of an artform the rondels on their own are on these period pieces.
Well my humble attempt at a repro has been assembled.
I made the rivet washers from silver and cut and annealed the rivet pins and put them all to one side and heat blued the furniture in 3 pieces. I then assembled the guard with the silver spacers and the washers. When assembling a guard like this it is often helpful to clamp the two halves together whilst rivetting to make sure nothing moves apart or skids off slightly.
The guard was the test fitted to the blade just to make sure................
I then bonded the handle scales on and fitted the pins in and bonded them and then filed them flush and polished the handle up.
The pommel cap was the fitted and peened in place. This must be fully annealed as on a pommel this small you cannot use heat to help the process.
The final stage was to slide the guard back onto the blade and rivet the blade between the guard halves.
I will be starting on the scabbard next week and will get some numbers up for the sword then.
I hope you like it.
Tod
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