[John Lundemo]

Hey guys,

Here's a Scottish basket hilt broadsword with a E.B. Erickson hilt and a super wide blade by Odinblades.

Also, a type XII broadsword, 38 3/4 inches total length and 31 7/8 inch blade. Better specs to come.

Enjoy the pictures. More are available on the website. Thanks.

[Hal Siegel]

[Leo Todeschini]

Very very nice

Tod

[Nathan Robinson]

Beautiful. Those historical basket-hilts with the wide blades are crazy. Your's looks particularly wide. I bet it's very thin to maintain dynamics. Very nice work. That must be a chore to grind.

[Chris Lampe]

I always love seeing new swords from Odinblades and these two are no exception! That Scottish basket hilt looks like a monster of a sword and I really like the clean lines of the type XII!!

Outstanding work, as always!

[Hugo Voisine]

That basket-hilt is just plain awesome. Out of curiosity, was the blade made before the hilt or the hilt before the blade ? Did you made the assembly ?

[Bartek Strojek]

The baskethilt is simply wicked. Looks like a beast.

Not that XIIa isn't great too.

Congratulations.

I can't seem to find more pictures on your site though, a little help here?

[GG Osborne]

Thanks to John for showing off the new basket hilt in my collection. The project was to recreate the basket hilt of Lord George Murray, the great Lieutentant-General of the Jacobite army in 1745-46. The basket is the surperb work of EJ Ericson and has been shown-off before but prior to sending it off to John for a blade. Although extensive reserach indicates there are no weapons traceable to Lord George, there is a portrait of him c. 1745 in the collection of the Duke of Atholl. The hilt and blade are interpretations of the hilt and blade in that portrait. The width of the blade is based on its relative width in the portrait when compared against the basket. Also, look of the opening in the scabbard! It's huge!

Of course wide blades are certainly known historically and I think one of two are illustrated in "Swoirds and Sorrows" but none so wide as this.

As far as handling is concerned, the blade is excellently balanced against the weight of the basket and as John pointed out when we first started the project, EL Jay used a slightly heavier guage of steel on this hilt. In short, the blade couterbalances the hilt almost perfectly.

The blade has an excellent temper and is very flexible. Just holding the sword in hand makes you desperatly want to cut something or someone. When you reflect on the eyewitness accounts of Prestopans and other engagements early in the Rising, commentators are constantly remarkling on the competely severed limbs, mangled bodies and decapitations. Fellow, I telling you this sword could easily do all of the above mayhem and more. It just cries out to be used in a particularily nasty way.

My deep thanks and sincere appreciation to EL Jay and John for making this projecvt come together so nicely and in such a unique way. I am very glad to have their collaboration in my collection!

PS Glenn McClain is working on a copy of Lord George's dirk as illuistrated below and hopefully that will be completed sometimes next spring.

[John Lundemo]

[John Lundemo]

[David Wilson]

Both swords are awesome, but I am seriously digging that basket hilt..... just awesome......

[John Lundemo]

[J. Abernethy]

I step away for a few weeks with school and all, and just about missed these John! Love the basket hilt, i'm a big fan of collaborations. The type XII is really sharp aswell. Awsome as always John, thanks for posting them, and grats to the new owners!