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Steven H
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Does this mean that a baleen sword would be like a leather sword? Maybe made from 14oz. leather?
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George Hill
Location: Atlanta Ga Joined: 16 May 2005
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It is only legal to own in the US, when it is harvested legally by Eskimo or Yupik hunters from villages with the traditional right do so, and fashioned BY THEM into a work of art or article of cultural significance. That said, up here at least large enough pieces to use are sold for a reasonable price. . |
So if one wished to try out such a thing, and one paid an Eskimo or Yupik to carve said Baleen into a sword shaped object, it would then be legal for them to sell said 'whalebone' swords to someone who wished to experiment with them?
To abandon your shield is the basest of crimes. - --Tacitus on Germania
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Jared Smith
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| Steven H wrote: |
Does this mean that a baleen sword would be like a leather sword? Maybe made from 14oz. leather? |
If you boiled some 16 oz (armour sole bend grade leather) and made a cuir boulli sword you would not be too far off from approximating the structure of a baleen sword. My 70+ year old local knife maker friend is actually from Alaska and has worked with it back when it was legal to do so (still has a garage full of legally collected neat stuff like ivory, genuine stag horn, fosilized tusks of just about whatever you can imageine, etc. from 1950's-1960's.) I have asked him about baleen previously. His advise was to stick with leather which is more predictable. The baleen can have a sandpaper like abrasive quality as well. One could just sew up a leather sheath for a "practice/sparring sword form" and boil it, slip it over the form, and be done with it.
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