This sword belongs to a mate of mine, Kris Young. It's a German longsword designed for amoured combat.

Some specs:
40 inch hand forged, hollow ground, diamond section blade with 3 inch ricasso.
The blade has a very stiff thrusting spine with a distal taper from 8 down to 5mm
Weight 1.45Kg Balance point 7.5 inches in front of guard
Completed sword without scabbard AUD$980
Scabbard is Leather over timber with iron mounts and belt.
Total Price (AUD) - $1660

The scabbard is actually a really cool royal blue that shows up beautifully in direct light.

Nice huh?

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Neat sword, thanks Taylor.

I really like this one, except for the ricasso. Very nice pommel.

To me this one suspiciously looks sort of like an XVIIIe or something very close to it. You will have an XVIIIe eventually Nathan you will. I can feel it in the force.

Did someone say XVIIIe? Here are mine!

http://home.comcast.net/~mournblade4/wsb/media/68388/site1013.JPG

and
http://home.comcast.net/~mournblade4/wsb/media/68388/site1015.JPG

closeup of hilt

http://home.comcast.net/~mournblade4/wsb/media/68388/site1016.JPG
and
http://home.comcast.net/~mournblade4/wsb/media/68388/site1018.JPG

Very nice, here's one of mine...

And here's the other...


Who did yours?

Sorry, the first one is as from Michael. While the second one, the thin bladed one, is the one I rehilted. Sorry about that, I thought I had them in reverse order.

James

Wow, James I didn't know that you had been working with Erik. I guess you already saw the blades and everything on those swords them. :) Anyway I still love the type and am very tempted to be contacting those guys at Manning about the sword posted above. It certainly fits right up my alley.

more like I was there working on my own blades, and offered to help cut out the pommel as repayment for Erik helping shape the grip core on my XVIIIb. At the time, I only a new pommel was being worked on, this was after he had shipped out the blades.

James

Lol I wonder if you worked on pommel number 2 or number three. I'm thinking Erik was getting as heartily sick of that sword as I was before it was completed. :)