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Björn Gísli Gylfason
Location: Denmark Joined: 17 Jul 2019
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 Posted: Fri 04 Sep, 2020 10:09 am Post subject: DIY complex hilted grosse messer |
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Happy enough with this one to share it here
Depending on who you ask it would classify as either a grosse messer or sabre but it's very much a messer in my mind. I was cursing myself through the whole making of the crossguard but after handling it assembled I think I really need to make more and even more complex 
Overall length is 111cm
Blade is 83 cm
Point of balance is 10 cm from the guard
Center of percussion 55cm from the guard right after where the fullers end
It has a distal taper from 7 mm at the shoulder down to 3 mm 4cm from the point
Weight is 1420 grams
Blade is spring tempered, hilt is mild steel and grip is cord bound wood core and leather
You might notice that this is a left handed weapon as I am left handed and I feel like we get pretty left out when it comes to complex hilts
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Bjorn Hagstrom
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Awesome!
As a fellow left-hander I salute you 
Now if you would just go on to making a sinclair-hilt...
There is nothing quite as sad as a one man conga-line...
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Paul Hansen
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Awesome work!
But for a DIY project, you do seem to have a rather impressive workshop... 
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Björn Gísli Gylfason
Location: Denmark Joined: 17 Jul 2019
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| Posted: Fri 04 Sep, 2020 12:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Bjorn Hagstrom wrote: | Awesome!
As a fellow left-hander I salute you
Now if you would just go on to making a sinclair-hilt... |
Just had a look at some of them and yes, they really do look interesting and a complete pain in the butt to make which means I very well might try making one in the future
| Paul Hansen wrote: | Awesome work!
But for a DIY project, you do seem to have a rather impressive workshop... |
I have a pretty good workshop setup at home as I do all kinds of metalwork and fabrication 
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Matt Corbin
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That’s REALLY cool. Whatever you call it. Bravo.
And definitely second the Sinclair hilt recommendation.
“This was the age of heroes, some legendary, some historical . . . the misty borderland of history where fact and legend mingle.”
- R. Ewart Oakeshott
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Tim Lison
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Damn fine work! I really like this. Well done.
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Alex Indman
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Great work, especially for DIY!
I have done and posted a few DIY projects myself (with a much more primitive workshop), but never attempted complex hilts as I can't figure out how to assemble them, within my technical limitations. Do you have a welding setup in your workshop, or found some other way to build this hilt?
Alex.
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Björn Gísli Gylfason
Location: Denmark Joined: 17 Jul 2019
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| Posted: Sun 27 Sep, 2020 8:50 am Post subject: |
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| Alex Indman wrote: | Great work, especially for DIY!
I have done and posted a few DIY projects myself (with a much more primitive workshop), but never attempted complex hilts as I can't figure out how to assemble them, within my technical limitations. Do you have a welding setup in your workshop, or found some other way to build this hilt?
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I do have various welders and used a tig welder to assemble this guard but I think that next time I attempt something like this I would like to try and braze it as I have a feeling many originals have been made in that way
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Michael P. Smith
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That's very nice!
I think whether you'd call it a sabre or a messer would depend upon handle construction. That looks like a traditional sword-like grip construction, rather than the full width tang and scales seen on the messer, but regardless of what you call it, it's extremely impressive!
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This is a standard topic