I know I am going to hate my self but I can't be selfish and yall are family so what the heck.
Atlanta Cutlery has found a few of their old Del Tin blades and have them up for sale. Since these are just blades they are pretty cheap and yes they have the old CK steel. I wanted the falchion but they only have three left and I am as usual broke so go get em yall.
Dunc

fergot the link
http://www.atlantacutlery.com/WebStore/Browse...rce=LINK:2

Thanks for the heads up, Dunc, but Shane Allee beat you to the punch. http://www.myArmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t...ht=del+tin. :)

Thats what I get for going out of town :eek:

Sorry, but what is "CK" steel? Is it non-heat-treated or what?

Brian M

I picked up one of the cutlass blades a few weeks back. It's scuffed and the tang is slightly bent to one side but it's fairly sharp and has a really cool back edge which will cut milk jugs nearly as well as the front edge. Overall, a really good buy, I feel. I would really love to send it to Old Dominion Forge to get it hilted with a wood grip, cap pommel, and shell gaurd. However this is probably wishful thinking. I may try making some of the fittings myself and/or buy separate ones from somewhere like the Albion moat sale and assemble them.

I bought the falchion, the sword rapier and, the Scottish blade. The sword rapier will eventually get a Spanish style Bilbo hilt, the Scottish will become a custom S-Hilt basket hilt and, the falchon will have a different hilt set-up than the Del Tin version. Eddie Floyd will be the fellow I contact for all of that.

has anyone made anything with these yet? any pictures?

I've been tinkering with my falchion blade a bit. Still have to thin out the rear part of the cup/basket and a bit more shaping after I get a pommel on it. I'm thinking that I'll cover the grip in rayskin, but beyond that I'm just coming up with it as it goes along. So nothing really historical about it.

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Say, not too shabby, Shane! Not too shabby at all!

Very nice, Mr. Allee! I guess you made the hilt material? I wish I had a workshop to play around in. I don't even have a basement, alas.

Thanks guys,

So far I've made all of the hilt, but I'm having Mark make me a pommel for it. He already had stock in hand to make it from and a much better way of removing larger amounts of material. I have to say that this is different than what I'm used to doing, so it is interesting on how you have to work each piece to get it come together. Not at all a linear progression I guess you could say.

Still considering some kind of pierce work for the cup, but I haven't come up with any ideas that I liked yet.

Shane

Very nice Hoss.
I am thinking along the lines the Wakefield sword.
We should all post pics of our blade when we get done and show off :lol:

I've just finished hilting up one of the hand and a half blades. The grip is a reshaped donation from a Valiant Armory Black Prince (mediocre sword, very nice ebony wood) and the cross & pommel are from a Hanwei Practical Hand and a Half (don't ask how I got it apart without breaking anything). Slick, solid and beautiful to boot! :cool:

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Wow that looks grand!
Good work hoss.