Hello there
I aquired a albion vassal in the moat sale while its 99 percent done and heat treated it has a cracked spine. While I did a stress test and bent it it returned to true with no ill effect to the spine.
But would it ruin it if I use a wire feed welder to fix the spine. Weld small patches and not over heat it?
Thanks
Christopher

Christopher,

I would advise against any consideration of using this blade for all but decorative purposes. A crack in heat treated steel will propogate. This is also a danger in the very local heat affected zone that would occur if you weld as you describe. A blade with a crack is junk pile material in my opinion, unless you can cut off that portion of the blade and re-heat treat the salvaged end.

-A

Even if its a hair line crack itll keep cracking? I know on other steel objects if you slightly drill in front of the crack and weld itll stop it. Its heat treated nicely and is just a hairline crack. Im just going to make the crack stop and fix it the best I can. It doesnt look like it cracked to deep anyways Im thinking grind down the spine a ways and see it that fixes it. It has a fuller right under the spine so I dont think itll interfere with it.
Oh and the crack is running the length of the spine not the width

The blade is ruined, which is why it was discarded by the manufacturer in the first place. You cannot fix it, nor should you really try - in addition to the crack, there are probably other structural integrity problems which are not so obvious.

Since it's such a nice falchion, I'd hilt it up for a display/costume piece, but never use it for any thing other than dry handing.

Hmm well saddness sings.
But yes Ill weld it up finish it and use it as a costume piece.
But I did a stress test to it and it bends and returns to true easy enough. If anything Ill use it as a light target cutter or a beater. Seems to be heat treated decently.
Thank you all for the advise

Do you have any pictures? (From just your description it sounds dicey, but I can also envision a possible situation where a reinforced spine [especially when integrated with a ricasso segment] like Indians used on a khanda might work just fine--w/o necessitating welding.)

Well no pics of it. But what I see is a small crack barely visible running down the middle of the spine 3/4 of the blade. I mean I had it in the vise and tried to crack it more(was in a heavy leather apron with heave leather gloves saftey glasses etc) But the thing is built stron and think its just a small interference being cracked.
But yes took me forever to find said crack uses food coloring to find it.
But Ill use cation if I cut with it.