Custom sword

[mrmeval]

I'm having a custom sword made by Cloak & Dagger. It's almost done but here are some earlier pictures of the blade. That is not as polished as the blade will be that picture is before heat treating and repolish. It will eventually have ebony guard and pomel and the grip will be Bethlehem olive wood I got from Holy Land imports.

http://mrmeval.is-a-geek.net/~jcaldwel/images/sword/images.html


The weird wide blade is not the fault of the blacksmith above it's all mine. It is a Tractor Supply corn knife cleaned up, smoothed, shaped and ready for reheat treating. I sharpened the end edge on it. It will be painted in bake on dead flat enamel or if I can find an good deal I'll have it parkerized and put some some good comfortable grips on it.

 

[carpettbaggerr]

Looks like a Roman Gladius. Not shabby at all

 

[mrmeval]

It's a pre-Christian era gladius. You'll not usually see that sharp a point later on. Most movies have the later period straight edged blades with not as promenent a point.

It's either considered a Fulham pattern or a Mainz as both are very close.

 

[RyanM]

Uh oh. With that sharp corner at the tang-blade junction, I think that first sword will have to be a wall-hanger only.

 

[mrmeval]

Several recovered Roman blades without hilts here.

The tang is authentic. The only difference between this blade and a roman one should be the steel.

 

[RyanM]

Hard to tell with the first two, but the one near the bottom definitely looks to have slightly rounded angles. It doesn't take a whole lot of rounding to make the tang much stronger.

 

[mrmeval]

Ok, I see what you mean the tang is slightly wider then tapers. That particular blade was based on another museum piece that's not online. I'm pretty confident in the workmanship and accuracy. As soon as the pommel work is finished I'll post pictures of the finished sword.