Thanks Jesse,

Lovely sword and it just shows how much of an artform the rondels on their own are on these period pieces.

Well my humble attempt at a repro has been assembled.

I made the rivet washers from silver and cut and annealed the rivet pins and put them all to one side and heat blued the furniture in 3 pieces. I then assembled the guard with the silver spacers and the washers. When assembling a guard like this it is often helpful to clamp the two halves together whilst rivetting to make sure nothing moves apart or skids off slightly.

The guard was the test fitted to the blade just to make sure................

I then bonded the handle scales on and fitted the pins in and bonded them and then filed them flush and polished the handle up.

The pommel cap was the fitted and peened in place. This must be fully annealed as on a pommel this small you cannot use heat to help the process.

The final stage was to slide the guard back onto the blade and rivet the blade between the guard halves.

I will be starting on the scabbard next week and will get some numbers up for the sword then.

I hope you like it.

Tod

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Tod,
Congratulations. That is just fantastic. Amazing craftsmanship all around. :)

Outstanding.

Absolutely splendid!

Leo,
excellent work. Bravo.
Pins are works of art. :eek:
I'd love a cinquedea, now.
Thank for the pics.

That's a WOW to be sure...
Wonderful, Outstanding Weapon

Excellent work, that's going to be one very pleased customer.

Great thread--thanks for the look. I've never seen one of these in construction--now that I have, has anyone else commented on how VERY like the construction of a hoplite xiphos this style sword is? These didn't appear just after the Etruscan tombs were opened, did they? :)

Jesse,
Thanks for those pics, by the way. :) It was very interesting to see how the grip slabs on some of those in Vienna didn't match the shape of the tang. We see the same thing on some ear daggers. A cool feature.

Flawless victory.

Tod, this piece turned out beautifully. I quite like your design choices.

I really would like to say thank you to you all, the comments have been incredibly positive and that is always a great compliment and a spur to continue and is really appreciated and I am glad that it has turned out to be interesting for you as well.

As it turned out there is a slight detail I have forgotten to put in, so there will be a slight caddition to the sword over the next few days and I will start on the scabbard as well.

Chad Arnow wrote

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Jesse, Thanks for those pics, by the way. It was very interesting to see how the grip slabs on some of those in Vienna didn't match the shape of the tang. We see the same thing on some ear daggers. A cool feature.

Yes the handle scales being wider than the tang is a feature found on both cinquedea and also on ear daggers, which of course show many form similarities and are of the same kind of period and location (in many instances) . I have not made or handled a piece with this feature as shown on the Cinquedea posted by Jesse but it does not look very comfortable and I discussed this with the client at the start and we decided to go for a full shape tang, but I have a couple of ear daggers coming up so maybe I will opt for this if the clients are willing - to be discussed Jean!

Jean Thibodeau wrote

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Just a note to Leo that when he makes my recently ordered Eared Dagger I would be very happy if he decides to make a similar in progress Topic for it as I (we) would learn more about how these are put together.

I will make a point of it Jean, they are also another very interesting dagger and again rather tricky to make so should prove a good topic to post up and in general I will try and do more of this when I have things that merit it.

Owen Bush wrote

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This is looking very good Tod I always like the process of seeing a plain piece of steel leave the forge and manifest its self into one of Tods creations. I will want to have this one in my hand before it goes to its new home.

For all those worried, Owen had his wish today. We met up to work on another job building trebuchets with school teachers and I took the sword along for him to have a play with.

Regards

Tod

Very cool :cool:

Congratulations - can't wait to see the scabbard.


Cheers

Fab

It's beautiful! It belongs next to your bone crossbow!

http://www.myArmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t...e+crossbow

Thanks everybody.

Well the scabbard became a bit of a nightmare. After glueing the first leather on with hide glue the scabbard warped and was beyond saving so I made a second scabbard and sewed it this time. To make a similar scabbard to those shown the work involved would (for me) exceed the work in the sword so I opted for another route I saw on a Longsword scabbard in Paris where the scabbard had a pattern of gilded studs. The client liked the floral theme so I went for floral studs.

The chape is in silver and the suspension is pretty typical of cinquedea scabbards and can be worn either left or right handed (he is left handed but may want to sell at some point).

So here it is all done and dusted. I was going to add some pin work onto the slabs but felt with the bluing that this could be dangerous so opted not to.

It has been a long time coming, but I am pleased with the result and thanks for watching.

The sword finally came in at 2lb 5oz (1050g) This relatively heavy, but the blade is broad and the slab tang is solid and full width so this is cetainly where some of the weight is. The POB is about 3" forward of the guard.

Regards


Tod

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I'm running out of superlatives...Let's just say the all package looks absolutely fantastic.
That's one hell of a Christmas gift...and whoever ends up with this sword is a very lucky fellow.

Leo Todeschini wrote:

After glueing the first leather on with hide glue the scabbard warped and was beyond saving so I made a second scabbard and sewed it this time.

I'm confused. Did the scabbard have a leather core? (leather over leather) I can't picture a wood core warping once covered with glued leather.

Seeing this make me want to go back to the workbench asap. Thanks for this thread again.

Cheers,

Julien