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Posts: 620 Location: Bjästa, Sweden

Tue 27 Feb, 2007 2:00 pm

My Seax...

It is finished at last!

My seax is based loosly on north european bogfinds from late roman times and early dark age...
I have grinded out the blade by hand (and a little help of mashines) and made all the furnitures with a small axe and a small knife mady by my sister... Yepp I like it the hard way!

and here is the pics...

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Martin Wilkinson

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Posts: 155

Tue 27 Feb, 2007 4:34 pm

Very nice, i love it.

The blade looks vicious.

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John Cooksey

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Posts: 291 Location: NW Ark

Tue 27 Feb, 2007 7:52 pm

How did you fasten the handle to the tang? Burning? Glue/resin???

Very nice job!!

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Martin Wallgren

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Posts: 620 Location: Bjästa, Sweden

Tue 27 Feb, 2007 10:49 pm

John Cooksey wrote:

How did you fasten the handle to the tang? Burning? Glue/resin???

Very nice job!!

With resin... it´s made prety much like a scabbard but with the tang curved it sitts there nice and snug.

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Justin Pasternak

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Posts: 174 Location: West Springfield, Massachusetts

Wed 28 Feb, 2007 12:56 pm

Awesome looking seax, great job!!! :cool:

I'm just curious to know if you could list the specifications of your seax. :)

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Jean Henri Chandler

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Posts: 1,420 Location: New Orleans

Wed 28 Feb, 2007 1:19 pm

Re: My Seax...

Martin Wallgren wrote:

It is finished at last!

My seax is based loosly on north european bogfinds from late roman times and early dark age...
I have grinded out the blade by hand (and a little help of mashines) and made all the furnitures with a small axe and a small knife mady by my sister... Yepp I like it the hard way!

and here is the pics...

Beautiful job Martin! When are you going to make me one? :)

Jean

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Martin Wallgren

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Posts: 620 Location: Bjästa, Sweden

Wed 28 Feb, 2007 1:41 pm

Re: My Seax...

Jean Henri Chandler wrote:

Martin Wallgren wrote:

It is finished at last!

My seax is based loosly on north european bogfinds from late roman times and early dark age...
I have grinded out the blade by hand (and a little help of mashines) and made all the furnitures with a small axe and a small knife mady by my sister... Yepp I like it the hard way!

and here is the pics...

Beautiful job Martin! When are you going to make me one? :)

Jean

Next one is for you man!

If you want one... :cool:

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Martin Wallgren

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Posts: 620 Location: Bjästa, Sweden

Wed 28 Feb, 2007 1:42 pm

Justin Pasternak wrote:

Awesome looking seax, great job!!! :cool:

I'm just curious to know if you could list the specifications of your seax. :)

It is in the proses of being antiqued right now but I will post specs tomorrow and a few new photos...

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Martin Wallgren

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Posts: 620 Location: Bjästa, Sweden

Mon 12 Mar, 2007 9:45 am

As promised along time ago I have updated the pics and here is the specs on the Seax!

Blade Length: 365mm
Blade with: 38mm
Blade thickness: 3mm
Total Length: 500mm
Weight: Aprox 400g
Point of balance: 270mm from the point.

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