Vince posted a pic on his latest projects album which shows him holding a sword he's building, inspired by an original piece, based on the sword of Ottoman Sultan Mehmet ll (residing at the Topkapi Saray Museum: 1/90) known to be one of the finest examples of 15th century Turkish made swords. *The original has an overall length of 126.5 cm, with a blade length of 106 cm
http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?p=99...uid=550150

Mac
Edit: - Vince removed the pic I'd mentioned on his album but added these two in-progess shots.

In Progress -- the Sword of Mehmet II
This sword is inspired by the sword of Mehmet II. A few changes were made by request of the owner. Blade Length 41-3/4", OAL 54". Pattern welded steel, Ivory grip, steel mounts with silver and gold inlay.

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Very cool!

I love middle-eastern swords of that pattern and this one looks to be another Evans masterpiece.

What a great design. That grip is fantastic!

It looks gorgeous :D
I have a friend with a similar sword and it's unbelievably well balanced, it's better balanced one handed than a lot of the one handed swords I've used! It can also deliver a powerful blow with two hands.

I also really like the second fuller along the back of the blade.

The original that inspired Vince ...... from the book "Islamic Swords and Swordsmiths"

Mac

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Some in-progress shots.

1.) The damascus billet
2.) Vince forging out the blade
3.) Vince gives us a sense of scale ( Mr. Evans is 5' 10")

Last I spoke to him he was working on the inlay for the guard !

It's gonna be a real beauty, Mac

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I like. I like a LOT. Congratulations!

Your very welcome, Steve, my pleasure !

Steve Grisetti wrote:

Vince clearly has a gift from God.

Amen, Mac

Manoucher, over on SFI, had requested a few shots of this blades pattern welding and Vince kindly sent me these photos today !
He wrote: "It's just a random pattern on the blade. I made 2 billets, 256 layers each, then welded them together to make 512 for the final blade."

Awesome looking, 'eh, Mac

Amazed in two ways: The first pic was amazing due to the aesthetics ! With the picture of Vince holding it in his hands I was also amazed by the size/scale of this sword. :eek: :cool:

Words fail me. ;) :lol:

( Edited: Holy crap ! The close-ups of the blade ! Lets add a third way I'm falling off my chair and drooling on my keyboard ! :cool: )

beautiful patterns. Would the original have been pattern welded or would the dmascus have been arrived at by the reheating/migration/impurities (no idea of the correct terminology) method?

Well for cryin' out loud, somebody give that man some wootz to work with!
:D
Nice Sword!

Very nice piece Vince.

Hello All,
Doing a blade this long is not a simple thing; add to this the pattern-welding and the fullers and you are really pushing the envelope. Not many today could do this work and only one has.

Ric

Well, you've been ahead of me on the whole wootz thing all along, Ric -
Let me rephrase that - there are no two people I'd rather be trumped by than Mr. Evans & Mr. Furrer.
:D