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A pattern welded Scramasax by Vince Evans.

I've been drooling over this piece for two or three weeks now. Yesterday I finally gave in and made the call, and it's headed my way *g*

Congratulations, Patrick me boy ..... truely a nice pickup !

I hopefully will be chatting with Vince tonite and will ask a few questions about it !

Merry Christmas , Mac

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Very nice, Patrick...Congratulations!


Regards,

Very pretty.

What kind of wood is the handle?

Thanks guys.

The handle is birds eye maple.

8 inch blade, 14 1/8 inches overall.

good grab Patrick

Congrats Patrick,
Very Cool,
Best to all for the holiday's,
:)

Hi Patrick

I did talk with Vince last night, as he and Grace are back from Hawaii, and I mentioned your new toy !

Vince said he'd done a couple of scramasax's and that was indeed one of them.
He figured he made that one somewhere in the mid-90's, but would double check his book and let you know exactly !
( he suspected 1995) He believed he originally sold it at a show in California !

Congrats again, Mac

Thanks Mac.

I've been meaning to give Vince a call. Now that he's back I definetly should.

Hopefully all is well with Graces family.

Patrick,

That's a beautiful knife (Yup, thought of it all by myself).

Now all you need is a matching pattern-welded Viking Sword w/ birds eye maple handle...and an axe and...

It's a great addition to your growing collection of Evans pieces; may they grow continuously in number.
Congratulations.

Greetings Patrick Kelly, Well done sir! I have looked at this one elsewhere. I am glad you got it. It is a fine statement for fittings on a seax, scramasax, sax. Pardon me, I have found so many names for this type. The size sounds just right. Big enough for serious social affairs but small enough for every day efforts.
I bring up the fitting issue in particular. I have a growing interest in Viking/ Anglo-Saxon right now. I am working on 2 seax . All the "originals" I can find show no fittings except one and I can't find that pic anymore. Considering the high level of craftsmanship of these cultures, I can't believe they didn't finish these out as well as their swords. Yours definitely supports this. I don't believe all of them had a piece of horn or wood wedged on the tang without fittings of some type. Working knife or not, I don't believe a chieftan or warrior of status would tolerate such a thing. Maybe I am barking up the wrong tree but I would welcome any input. Do tell us about it when it arrives. Sincerely, Patrick Fitzmartin

Greetings Patrick Kelly, Thank you sir. I think I will put fittings on mine with full regard to function before form. They won't be Evan's but they will be mine. ;) I agree with S. Han. A sword and axe would be a fitting round out. Especially the "Witham" sword. I have an A&A Shifford and older MRL smaller type M axe to go with mine. Or maybe its the other way around. :D Once I get everything done I will have bore everybody with my humble efforts. I sympathize fully with the "limited budget syndrome". :( As you say "Suck it up and get it done". Sincerely, Patrick Fitzmartin

Congratulations, Patrick! An exceptionally nice piece there ... very nice! :)

And people wonder how I get so much drool on my key board.....that's a really lovely peice there, though I guess when it comes from Vince these things kind of go without saying...

I really like that knife, Patrick. The use of burl wood, bronze (brass?) and pattern-welded blade is such an attractive, organic combination. Lots of natural activity and "decoration" in an empirically simple design. Gorgeous!