This is the name of a Roman Spatha sword I made. It has an all wooden and bronze hilt and double fullered blade, woodcore scabbard. I was wondering if someone from this forum could bring over the pictures from SFI in the antient swords forum, I would really like to get some feedback from the good folks here at myArmoury. There is a new Damascus leaf wolfs theme sword and some gladii and katana's as well, which I would post here but don't have the computer skills. You are most welcome to bring those pics over as well, but the spatha I would really like to see here. Thanks very much John

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I don't usually go for the Roman stuff, but damn, this is gorgeous!

DROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLING! gaaaah gimmie gimmie.... argh.... must have spatha.... sob sob ...

Man thats so beutiful. I´m awstruck. Simply amasing.

M

Gaaaaaa......Yep, that is one beautiful Spatha. Very nice, John. Like the others, the style is usually a little early for me, but I have to say that I'd have to constantly be wiping the drool off that thing if it was in my possession.

That's the best looking Roman sword, spatha or gladius, that I've ever seen. I'm sure that the emperor Pertinax would have been happy to own it. I bet his Praetorian guard would have killed him to possess it.

I'd take that one into battle against the Parthians!

Very nice piece. The Romans had great taste :cool:

Lol, the name... :D

I know there was the Roman Emperor by that name (126 - 193, according to Wikipedia), but the name always brings the memories of electronic circuit boards - they were made from paper, laminated with artificial resin, and went by the name Pertinax here. :D

Your spatha style sword is very beautiful, John. I need something like that, one of these days.

I just had to jump on board with everyone else and say 'Wow'.

That sword is beautiful. Your historically inspired work has come quite a long way in such a short time. In this piece, the file work in the bronze components really caught my eye. The two fullered blade is also quite nice, my only observation is that I would think that the fullers should continue at their full width into the guard plate; the photos look like they start to trail off before getting to the guard. Maybe it is just the light. . .

Cheers and applause for a job well done. Magnificent.

That's very attractive.

I'm curious: Is this based on something specific or a combination of things?

What kind of cross-section does the blade have? it looks to go to hex near the tip. Is that a lighting issue?

John,

Wonderful job! It is stunning.

Congrads!

Matt

Who's the lucky customer? Speak up!

I thought it was Ty Nguyen... maybe I've got that wrong will have to go check...