I'm trying to choose between two designs. The first is based on several swords that were auctioned online a few years ago. It would be built around an Albion long fullered dagger blade. I'm not totally confident about the date on these, as no citation was provided.
The second is more loosely inspired by several "Saxon" and German hunting swords that I first saw at the old Sword Links site (which appears to be down, but one of them is at the Metropolitan Museum). It might be modified from an Atlanta Cutlery D-guard bowie -- this is questionable, since I've seen so few original blades; all I really know is they were broad -- and use a guard from Weber Messer. If the side shell isn't appropriate, I'd just grind it off and add a counterguard.
I kind of prefer the first design, however I'd like to know whether anything else about either of these designs is conspicuously anachronistic.
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One of the auction blades [ Download ]
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Line drawings [ Download ]