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David Jackson
Location: Maple Ridge BC Canada Joined: 14 Oct 2004
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Hi there,
I've lurked on this site for quite awhile now but never posted anything. I'm a pretty low level collector but would like to do more if finances allowed. Anyway here are some pictures of a scabbard I just made for my first sword. The sword is a small Toledo wall hanger but it was my first. My parents bought it for me when I was 12-13. It used to have a cast pot metal cross guard and pommel but the cross guard broke so for years I had a sword with half a hilt. As skills and access to tools improved I compleatly redid the hilt to what it is now. I recently gave the sword to my son (he is 10), who wasn't too keen on the ratty old scabbard I had it in. So I made a new one with his name, Iain, in runes on it. He seemed quite happy with the result, so I though I'd share. Please excuse the quality of my cheap camera and lousy camera work.
Dave
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Steve Grisetti
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Well done, David. I so-o-o admire people who can actually do things with their hands!
"...dismount thy tuck, be yare in thy preparation, for thy assailant is quick, skilful, and deadly."
- Sir Toby Belch
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Ken Rankin
Location: North Carolina Joined: 12 Mar 2006
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David,
That is great work! It looks good to me, your son is very lucky that his dad would do so much for him.
Ken
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Shawn Shaw
Location: Boston, MA USA Joined: 07 Jan 2006
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Very nice. How did you fashion the pommel and cross guard?
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Andy Bain
Location: Surrey, BC, Canada Joined: 24 Aug 2003
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Good work David, and nice to see you're getting your son started early.  And it's also nice to see another Canuck on the forum. Welcome!
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Bill Grandy
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And let me say, there is nothing cooler to an 11 year old than a sword of your own! My dad gave me a ratty old wall hanger that'd been sitting in our shed for decades when I was around that age. The blade was essentially a piece of rectangular metal sawn into the vague shape of a blade, blunt as a crowbar, and completely covered with rust and corrosion from some 30 years of sitting in a shed. And I was the happiest kid in the world because of it. (spent months trying to clean it, too!)
So congratulations to your son! I hope he enjoys it!
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"For practice is better than artfulness. Your exercise can do well without artfulness, but artfulness is not much good without the exercise.” -anonymous 15th century fencing master, MS 3227a
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David Jackson
Location: Maple Ridge BC Canada Joined: 14 Oct 2004
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Thanks for the response. As for the making of the hilt and pommel, When I first started dating my wife I discovered that her father had a great selection of tools. He had both a woodwork shop and a metal working shop as well. One of the cooler items he had was a milling machine. It was this that I used to shape the hilt from flat brass bar stock. The pomme was just a slice of round bar stock. Not terribly complicated just time intensive.
Dave J
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Jean Thibodeau
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| David Jackson wrote: | Thanks for the response. As for the making of the hilt and pommel, When I first started dating my wife I discovered that her father had a great selection of tools. He had both a woodwork shop and a metal working shop as well. One of the cooler items he had was a milling machine. It was this that I used to shape the hilt from flat brass bar stock. The pomme was just a slice of round bar stock. Not terribly complicated just time intensive.
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Really great making / restoring a sword for our son.  Not a sharp obviously but still a metal sword, which is a good thing teaching having fun and still being " responsible " . Might not hurt anyone but the occasional table lamp might get " IT ".
Much better to teach responsibility in stages rather than duct tapping your kids with layers of cotton wool so that they never hurt themselves. ( Unless you are making them a Gambison that is.   )
So did your future wife get a little irritated when you started spending more time with her Dad in his workshop that with her ?
( Just teasing: No harm intended.  )
P.S. Oh, wecome to the site.
You can easily give up your freedom. You have to fight hard to get it back!
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