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John Lundemo
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 Posted: Thu 17 Sep, 2009 3:42 pm Post subject: Hi New Odins |
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Hey, Sam came over, we had some tacos and posted some pictures, here's some swords that have gone out of the shop recently and a bare blade with an etching. A Jian, 5160H with a HAMON, bronze hilt pnarts with etchigs, stabilized spalted maple green dyed, with antiqued leather covered wood core scabbard and bronze chape tip. And some shots I took of Mr Ryan Steward's dagger/short sword, specs and stuff on his thread on SFI. And last but not least this is a one handed version of the "Celtic Wolf" sword from my website. It has hand carved bronze furniture and a woodcore of rosewood with cord and thin leather wrap grip. The blade is made blunt for theatrical sword work and it is made from mar quenched 5160H steel.
The bare blade with the etching
Ryan Steward's dagger/shortsword
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John Lundemo
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| Posted: Thu 17 Sep, 2009 3:43 pm Post subject: |
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The Jian
The antiqued bronze chape
The hilt
And the CELTIC WOLF, sorry for the blurry shot
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Jared Smith
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| Posted: Thu 17 Sep, 2009 4:17 pm Post subject: |
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John,
Nice work on all of them. The Celtic wolf furniture and the engraving (?) on the short sword appeal to me personally. Was the Jian furniture cast?
Absence of evidence is not necessarily evidence of absence!
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John Lundemo
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| Posted: Thu 17 Sep, 2009 7:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Jared Smith wrote: | John,
Nice work on all of them. The Celtic wolf furniture and the engraving (?) on the short sword appeal to me personally. Was the Jian furniture cast? |
Thanks Jared. The jian furniture was etched on solid carved bronze and the Wolf furniture was hand carved on solid bronze, no castings.
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Hugo Voisine
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| Posted: Thu 17 Sep, 2009 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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Cool stuff John ! I really like the Jian. Is it based on any historical piece or style ?
« Que dites-vous ?... C'est inutile ?... Je le sais !
Mais on ne se bat pas dans l'espoir du succès !
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John Lundemo
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| Posted: Fri 18 Sep, 2009 6:59 am Post subject: |
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| Hugo Voisine wrote: | | Cool stuff John ! I really like the Jian. Is it based on any historical piece or style ? |
It is based off a antique in one of my sword books. The scabbard however is not:)
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Kenton Spaulding
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What is the grip of the Jian? It looks really cool with the green swirls.
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John Lundemo
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| Kenton Spaulding wrote: | | What is the grip of the Jian? It looks really cool with the green swirls. |
Hi, that grip mayerial is called stablized spalted maple burl. Thanks for asking
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Chris Lampe
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John, It seems like you mentioned that the dagger/shortsword was 23". Is that blade length or overall length from tip to pommel? I really like that one!!
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Hugo Voisine
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There seems to be areas of the grip on the Jian where the green dye didn't "take" : was this effect voluntarily created (by not applying the dye in those areas) to avoid having a grip that looks too uniform in color, or is it just how the wood naturally react ? Anyway, it looks great.
Please forgive my ignorance of the subject of woodwork... 
« Que dites-vous ?... C'est inutile ?... Je le sais !
Mais on ne se bat pas dans l'espoir du succès !
Oh ! non, c'est bien plus beau lorsque c'est inutile ! »
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John Lundemo
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| Posted: Sun 27 Sep, 2009 11:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Hugo Voisine wrote: | There seems to be areas of the grip on the Jian where the green dye didn't "take" : was this effect voluntarily created (by not applying the dye in those areas) to avoid having a grip that looks too uniform in color, or is it just how the wood naturally react ? Anyway, it looks great.
Please forgive my ignorance of the subject of woodwork... |
The wood is actually stablized spalted maple and came like this. I did not do any dye work on it. I hand picked this piece of wood at a knife show
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