Hello all,
I was browsing Kult of Athena's website recently and saw a Kingston Arms Scottish Claymore for sale. One of the pics appears to show a rivet through the langets, which I assume goes through the blade and is riveted over the langet on the opposite side. I assume this because I saw that being done years ago on a Hanwei branded Scottish two-hander. :)

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Any period example that show this? I don't recall seeing any in the books I have, but they rarely have close-ups that would make that detail visible.

I can't say for Scottish, but for Turkish, Persian, Mamluk, Arab, etc. this would be unthinkable because there is supposed to be a gap there that the scabbard fits under - but I think this in part to keep the sword securely in the scabbard due to the shape of the curved blades and of course that wouldn't be an issue in this case...

I've seen the Claymores in the major UK museums (Edinburgh, Glasgow, RA, BM) and I didn't see rivets in the langets. I have the older Hanwei model and the rivet does go all the way through.

Most of the langets I have side photos of are pretty tight next to the blade (BM, Edinburgh) with the exception of the Whitelaw Claymore. Its langets start about a half the blade's thickness out from the blade on either side. About half way out they start to bend outward, with the tips ending about a full blade's thickness from the blade on either side.