I have recieved many requests for information about how the hilt components are cast on.
So I made a video of the process.


http://youtu.be/hgsei_nG2Lo

Enjoy

This is great Ben. It's funny... I've just started doing this with 'pewter' but wasn't even sure if there was a precedent for it. And I came up with something pretty much like what you have in your video.. although I used a copper collar which was a mistake.. even annealed it was still too stiff. So I ended up duct taping it! Which worked fine... but I will now use cardboard. :-)

Anyway.. thanks for helping me to refine this process.....