forging a few making everything to them by hand and having problems figuring how to atach the leather to the hilt dont want to glue them so my quess is sewing but no idea how

and yes i suck making them but still gotta try

picks of a proto flamberge (failure in many ways had to do to figure how to do it right) and for ongoing zweihander projeckt (starting a flamberge soon((again))

http://imageshack.us/g/1/10375627/

and ofc other tips when making one appreciated... found 0 info on how to forge a flamberge online so pretty much hawing to go by trial and error

This should help. http://www.bladesmithsforum.com/index.php?showtopic=15010

so i quess glueing is the authentic way not much on sewing on taht but thx now i know i dont need to be shamed of it if i glue it

i just saw your link posted up in another post - I'm glad to see someone also diving into the construction of these style of swords, their geometry alone is complex and sometimes hidden by the semi-sheath.

as for your flamberge, don't look at it as a failure, everything is a learned experience. and to be truly honest with you, i don't have much of an idea of how there were forged either, modern productions are just a wavy flame like blade, but most originals are more like a saw tooth design. maybe many hours and hours of grinding to get that feature, or another aspect of forging it that I'm not aware of.

well i got a good grip on the forging of the wavy version (i prefer it more)

but wud be nice to get some close up picks on the saw tooth blade cause all ive found are from affar (tho havent looked in to them much)

and the specks for the proto were sumthing like

lenght:158cm
blade:97cm
ricasso:14cm
hilt and pommel: 43cm
weight: about 3,2kg so wud be still about usable balanced that thing about middle of ricasso (dunno the point they shud be but its fun to swing around as it is
mat:spring steel (havent been hardened)
nor have spent alot of time in finishing it only used for finding out the hard parts when making 1
and dident put the crossguard rings to that and anyways how u guys put the rings to them just weld whit silver/forge weld?

but well if i keep making dese for 5-10 years i think ill start getting good pices out :P

well need the "authentic" way for doing em cause ill be doing em to the others im making so if go deeper to that forge weld or punch a hole and strech from the same metal as the rest of the cross guard alot of posibilities on making em but trusting on u fellas expertice/experience so i wudent need to try out all of em :)

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/40/9wg3.jpg/
still alot of room for improvement missing the rings...was getting short on time
and extermely unfinished look... tho personaly like litle rough looking blades
overall quite happy whit this toy of mine