I thought I could start a thread called this where we amateurs could show pics of our creations. Easy for folks to find good to share ideas in.

I´ll start...

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Short utility seax inspired by a find from Jämtland, Sweden ca 850!

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Battleknife inspired by finds from Danish/German bog ca 500!

Here's the knife my brother and I collaberated on. 4140 steel, solid oak grip. A fun project for two complete hacks.

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Hi!
Really nice blades!
Here are my running projects :)
As you can see they are far from finished. If a have time I will work on them in the autumn. The feder may be interesting. The blade and the cross are simply cut out with laser from 52C steel and the blade is thinned by forging. The pommel is turned and the hole is hit into it. The aim is to have feders as fast and as cheep as possible to be able to equip a group quickly with quite useable stuff. Until now it took around 40USD. (Sorry for the poor guality pics)
Cheers

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very nice work. how can you have access to such a powerful laser? do you work in siderurgy?

There are companies for doing that :) I have the luck to have one in the range 15 minutes walking in the town where I live now. Try searching google for laser cutting steel to find one. Make precise plans preferably in dwg format or something like that. Its not the most elegant way to make swords (the first two ones are forged completely), but a really nice way to make feders :) Btw: it's a nice way to get nice bands of steel although a bit expensive. (in my area it's hard to get small pieces of high carbon steel :( ) A friend of mine is concerned in an other company like this at home, so the idea is from him :)
Cheers

Here are some rough works. All forged, then the edge was put on with a grinder.

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Some more. Not very pretty but they are HIGH performance.

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Forged from 5160, now has a black parachord handle wrap, one of my earlier and best works yet.

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same one from the first set with the leather wrap handle

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52100 ball bearing steel bowie knife forged by me from 3/4 inch round bar.

Sorry, but the blades went to be hardened and I don't remember exactly. There is a lighter and a heavier version. As far as I remember the heavier is around 1500g mounted. The pommel is around 500g, a bit heavy for the blade, but that's expected from a feder. The overall length was originally 1200mm but drawed out a bit by forging and then the tip was bent back to form a ring for safer thrusting. The heavier was cut out of 6mm the lighter from 4mm thick sheet. The lighter one has the same mountings, so the balance is drawn back even further. They are in "experimental stage". If I will have a little time, I will finish and "test" them in September.
Regards!

New Seax!

I forged this blade last friday evening when me and my friend had a few beers and did some ironwork. Today I made the handle and I plan on finisching a scabbard for it soon. It is a blunt knife for reenactment fighting.
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Hi Bruno!
To be precise, this time the laser is the comfortable part too, not mainly the economical. The main point which is intended to make the stuff cheep is what you said in your post:

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I will reserve charcoal for me and connoisseurs.

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I strongly agree with it. In this case the feder design was chosen because it sacrifices all unneeded features and had the advantages of a practice weapon and the ability to minimise the amount of forging. Just like aluminum wasters. For cutting, the laser was chosen mainly because of its accuracy, availability, some comfort, my shop wasn't functional when this project started :) and maybe mainly, it really fits the feder design (and maybe the whole idea of it :) ). The price of it is reasonable, and can be lowered by multi pieces orders.
Best regards!
Marton

One question on making your own knives, where can I secure brass for furniture? I wanted to fabricate some ferrules for my project, but where to get brass (or bronze) online or otherwise? Is there a place I can buy it in wire and sheet form? I know there are places to buy blade furniture premade, but this is by definition very limiting.

Yataghan-inspired fighting knife. Ground out from 1/8" thick O-1 toolsteel flatstock. Ironwood handle-slabs. 1/8" diamater mosaic pins from Texas Knifemaker Supply. Heat-treated by John Lundemo and Sam Salvati, for which I am very thankful.

Here is a knife I made a couple years ago. It is the only thing I've done and I think it turned out nice with some really clean lines. I wrapped the handle in 550 cord.

Mike

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Hi,
Sgian Dubh I made for my son, last time I tried this for myself was about 35 years ago and it got consigned to the bin about 34 11/12 years ago, more patience these days I hope. Materials, mid section from a broken blade reworked, bolster a bit cut from a small steel angle bracket, handle is made from oak salvaged from a Victorian wardrobe. Tools, measure, vice, 5'' angle grinder, punch, various files, sandpaper, glue and some peaceful days in the garage. Hope you like it.
Regards,
Norman.
P.S. Scabbard at present glued and left happily in a vice until tomorrow.

Here's a couple of the blades I've made over the years.

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Hello!
Great topic, great works!
Here is one sword, what I made. Altogether I made 3 swords. This is the second, the third one isn't finished yet, and about the first one I don't have any good picture. When I will have some usable photos of them, I will post them.
Cheers!

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Here´s a groupphoto of my seaxes and knifes. The longest has a blade length of 55 cm.

I have made all of them myself exept the little utility knife. All are forged and handgrinded.

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