The pommel was an old rough casting from A&A that needed drilling, polishing and repair of some pits. I made the cross from a discarded test tube stand.
As this developed as a very severe-looking sword, I decided to leave the furniture relatively roughly finished and blue it in that state. That, plus a beeswax finish, gives a finish that looks more like fire bluing than I’ve seen in my previous applications. If you’d like to try that, beware of the wax–be sure you have everything exactly as you want it before waxing because it’s tough to remove for later applications of chemical bluing. You’ll need to heat the piece with a torch to burn off the wax, then use a strong engine degreaser.
I typically blue the peen nut and peen, but for some reason felt that they should be bright here to relieve the darkness. Maybe I'll change my mind.
I didn’t make a scabbard because I thought this might be displayed bare and blade-up. I might revisit that idea and make a scabbard and byknives like the Dresden scabbard.
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