EricAndersson

Wow those are truly marvelous! Thank you for posting this. And I’m happy that I was somewhat correct with the start with squares. Do you happen to have pictures of the different stages in forging? I would love to try to make this one day. And would very much appreciate it if you could post more.

I did take a look on Myarmoury but it’s just the diamond pattern that really interest me, and I can’t find any modern reproduction of that one

I think a good smith would need to have a look at the swords in person to have a chance to really figure it out, I really wonder if the pattern matches on the other side or not because if it does I might have a clue but if they don´t I got no idea, I think I read some wear that most patternwelded swords of this period had a sheet of iron between the two different sides. If I have time this or the next month I´ll try to do some small test pieces, because the only way that makes sense to me would be if they did some kind of canister mosaic Damascus but without the canister.... Just

These sword captured my interest the second I first saw them. And I have been grinding my head trying to figure out how the were actually made. And I just saw something that all of them have in common that changed the little understanding I had of them. So what do all of them have in common except the diamond pattern? The pattern elongates towards the tip. Which to me would mean that the blades were forged more after the pattern had been put on. Because I first thought these were made by first forging the blades to near completion, and then adding the pattern by chiselling in the pa

Ah thank you my experience is mostly with making knifes and I had problems with finding anything about how it should be on single edge sword of this period. Thank you yeah I have already seen that one. And have already started on the blade. Here is the blade as it is now it took a real banana bend when hardening but I was able to get most of it out when tempering so now I just trying to straighten the rest of it out with grinding. btw I made it pattern welded so I just had to test etch it.

Hi guys I’m currently working on a long sax/single edge viking sword. And the blade is going to have a full flat grind. And I’m wondering what the tang should look like? Should it follow the flat grind or should it be more rectangular. Because if it follows the flat grind it’s going to be a bit thicker than if it was rectangular. Most of the historical examples I have found that show the thickness of the tang shows it being rectangular but I have read from other smiths that they often followed the flat grind. Like this one the tang isn’t totally rectangular and gets a bit thinner towards

Hi guys I'm currently trying to make my first sword/long sax a 530mm long (not including the tang) pattern welded viking age single edged sword/long sax. And I need some help to decide what to do with the fullering. First I was going to have a spine of wrought iron but forgot to add it. So because I forgot to add it the fuller is going to have both the pattern welding and the wrought from the middle of the blade. So what I`m wondering is if that would look odd? And having never done a fuller is it easier to grind it out now or after grinding the profile. Or should I even add a fuller and inste