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Sean Flynt
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Jonathan Hodge
Location: East Tennessee Joined: 18 Sep 2015
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Posted: Fri 02 Sep, 2016 1:35 pm Post subject: |
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First of all, magnificent work! It's a beautiful piece. If you ever get tired of our day job, you could consider custom work of this kind full time! Secondly, where did you grab that $100 breastplate- production piece or a good buy from the marketplace here? As my education continues, the most fun part is doing the custom work!
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Very nice Job Sean - from documentation to execution + clever use of tweaked existing parts...as usual! I like your work on the peen+nut...very neat. Your finished sword looks very close to those later bastard sword that come up on Herman Historica from time to time - with its slender blade and complex hilt. Roping on the raisers now?
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Jonathan Hodge
Location: East Tennessee Joined: 18 Sep 2015
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Posted: Sat 03 Sep, 2016 5:26 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for pointing me to this thread. I'm thinking that a few more polearm projects and maybe an HT sword project may be in order first, but soon afterwards I'd love to start learning some armor techniques. I may be filling up your inbox with some questions soon lol!
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Posted: Sat 03 Sep, 2016 12:52 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Sean, Wonderful as usual! I really like the tying together of the similar-yet-different components and lines ... this is the kind of organic synergy I really appreciate about historical pieces, and so often seems to be absent from modern reproductions. Bravo!
(And, if you ever need to move this one on to make way for other projects, she's really welcome to join the rest of her 'family' here! )
Chief Librarian/Curator, Isaac Leibowitz Librarmoury
Schallern sind sehr sexy!
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Leo Todeschini
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E.B. Erickson
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Posted: Wed 07 Sep, 2016 4:07 am Post subject: |
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Hi Sean,
That sword turned out very nice - does it handle as well as it looks?
--ElJay
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Posted: Wed 07 Sep, 2016 7:00 am Post subject: |
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Thanks! For handling, I would say that it feels light and quick due to the massive pommel on a hand-and-a-half grip.
My gut feeling is that this one could use a few more inches of blade. That would bring up the weight and give it more blade presence. As you see it here, the COG is ~3.6" below the guard, weight is maybe 2.75 lbs. and it's ~42.5" overall. I would think that 4", 2.5 lbs. and 46 inches would be closer to what I would want to feel, but that's nit-picking. It's a very lively sword that should look nice fully finished with scabbard and suspension.
There isn't much variety in the line of Hanwei-Tinker blades, but this narrow Type XVIII has many applications in the period that interests me. Max thickness is about .20". I think this blade would work best for a single-hand sword in the mode of the Castillon swords. You'd have only to cut the tang. I have wondered if the H-T viking blade might be adapted for a Katzbalger blade--adding narrow lines alongside the broad fuller. Something for the future, perhaps.
-Sean
Author of the Little Hammer novel
https://www.amazon.com/Little-Hammer-Sean-Flynt/dp/B08XN7HZ82/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=little+hammer+book&qid=1627482034&sr=8-1
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