The polished looks great stephen,
it was just a Q i thought you may well have mulled over,
can you imagine a hundred years from now the headaches someone is gonna have laying a firm date to work like this, :D
Great stuff,real cool project, :)

I especially love that little decorative detail on the bow where it meets the pommel. It's the little touches like that that make the difference between mere good work and a masterpiece.

Stephen
Fabulous weapon! Too bad Eric is not taking orders, but education is important too. Jaw droppingly elegant!

Stacy

Hi All!
Thanks once again for the kind words about my work. And especially thank you Stephan for being patient with my timeline, since I am focusing on school full time again my delivery timeline has met with one setback after another, but I keep chipping away at the remains of my backlog and it is always nice when people are understanding about delays.

Lee O'Hagan wrote:

Did Eric mention if this type of faceting was notably more difficult to do,

Lee, the faceting was not harder than any of the floral decoration I have done on other pieces, but it does have its own challenges. I had to sit and think about the design and how to go about laying it out for a while before committing anything to metal since each row of facets is slightly different in dimensions to account for the elongated shape of the pommel. But ultimately the size and shape of the facets is dependant on the shape of the pommel you start with, so I decided the easiest way to determine the dimensions of each facet was to pretend I had a plan and start faking it. I just divided the circumference into equal parts at its widest point, filed flat spots and kept going with it, I found that it actually didn't take much layout, the facets just kind of aligned themselves naturally as I took off the material and were easy to correct by eye in relation to the other facets. Polishing all of the facets without losing the crisp edges was a bit tricky to do with power tools, I think hand polishing them would yield a much crisper finish but would also add considerably to the labor, even with power tool shortcuts it was still quite labor intensive.

Cheers,
Erik

Stephan,

You have another fan of this small-sword. I was showing it to my wife and in her normal British fashion was ...in her words "quite chuffed" with it. She said it's even more beautiful than my Mortuary.....indeed!

Bill

11 oz - that's unbelievable- my kitchen cleaver weighs more than that - beautiful piece of work - lucky man !!!

Here is another picture showing detail of the pommel.

That is a wonderful pommel ...... Erik did a really super job on it !

Great shot, Stephen ! Mac