Hi there,
I've lurked on this site for quite awhile now but never posted anything. I'm a pretty low level collector but would like to do more if finances allowed. Anyway here are some pictures of a scabbard I just made for my first sword. The sword is a small Toledo wall hanger but it was my first. My parents bought it for me when I was 12-13. It used to have a cast pot metal cross guard and pommel but the cross guard broke so for years I had a sword with half a hilt. As skills and access to tools improved I compleatly redid the hilt to what it is now. I recently gave the sword to my son (he is 10), who wasn't too keen on the ratty old scabbard I had it in. So I made a new one with his name, Iain, in runes on it. He seemed quite happy with the result, so I though I'd share. Please excuse the quality of my cheap camera and lousy camera work.

Dave

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Well done, David. I so-o-o admire people who can actually do things with their hands!

David,

That is great work! It looks good to me, your son is very lucky that his dad would do so much for him.

Ken

Very nice. How did you fashion the pommel and cross guard?

Good work David, and nice to see you're getting your son started early. :) And it's also nice to see another Canuck on the forum. Welcome!

And let me say, there is nothing cooler to an 11 year old than a sword of your own! My dad gave me a ratty old wall hanger that'd been sitting in our shed for decades when I was around that age. The blade was essentially a piece of rectangular metal sawn into the vague shape of a blade, blunt as a crowbar, and completely covered with rust and corrosion from some 30 years of sitting in a shed. And I was the happiest kid in the world because of it. :) (spent months trying to clean it, too!)

So congratulations to your son! I hope he enjoys it!

Thanks for the response. As for the making of the hilt and pommel, When I first started dating my wife I discovered that her father had a great selection of tools. He had both a woodwork shop and a metal working shop as well. One of the cooler items he had was a milling machine. It was this that I used to shape the hilt from flat brass bar stock. The pomme was just a slice of round bar stock. Not terribly complicated just time intensive.

Dave J