Anyone have any info on this Seax (pictured within)?

[dustin reagan]

I'm looking for any info on this seax. I've been told that it has a blade length of only 12cm. Does anyone have any other info, and/or pictures (especially of the spine)?

 

 

Thanks,

Dustin

[peter johnsson]

I thought I had some pictures of this one. It is in the British Museum, but I seems to have ignored it each time I´ve visited so far. Stupid.

It is a small knife. 12 cm sounds like it could be total length rather than blade length, but I may well be wrong: it could be blade length. I do rember that it made an impression on me from being very small and crisp looking, but quite sturdy in cross section. From memory I´d say it is some 6 or 7 millimeter thick in the back. The upper part of the face of the knife has a very shallow fuller. It is not a flat bevel, but very slightly radiused, where the silver is inlayed.

 

I hope some one else have more reliable information.

[Jeroen Zuiderwijk]

This one is from the Klingesmuseum in Solingen. (I took the photo the same day I met you there Peter ). The measurement is of the blade, and only an estimate from looking ar it. So it can be a bit smaller or larger. There should be a second picture in my museum photo collection (see link signature)

[peter johnsson]

OK! Thanks Jeroen Says something about how reliable my memory is

 

I thought there was one that is at least very similar to this in the BM, but perhaps not?

Ah, well....

[dustin reagan]

This one is from the Klingesmuseum in Solingen. (I took the photo the same day I met you there Peter ). The measurement is of the blade, and only an estimate from looking ar it. So it can be a bit smaller or larger. There should be a second picture in my museum photo collection (see link signature)

 

Thank you for the info, Peter & Jeroen.

 

Jeroen, forgive me, but I can only find the single photo in your collection. I'm looking here: http://1501bc.com/page/solingen/index.html

 

I am going to attempt a rough reproduction of this Seax. Was there anything from this Seax that gave any clue as to its construction? I am going to forge-weld a simple wrought iron body to a strip of butt-welded edge steel. Is this a plausible method of construction?

 

Thanks,

Dustin

[Jeroen Zuiderwijk]

Thank you for the info, Peter & Jeroen.

 

Jeroen, forgive me, but I can only find the single photo in your collection. I'm looking here: http://1501bc.com/page/solingen/index.html

Yep, you're right, I only took one of that sax (I took two of the other small knives next to it).

 

I am going to attempt a rough reproduction of this Seax. Was there anything from this Seax that gave any clue as to its construction?

Not that I can remember seeing. I now only have that photo for reference.

 

I am going to forge-weld a simple wrought iron body to a strip of butt-welded edge steel. Is this a plausible method of construction?

Yep, that's one of the possible methods.

 

N.b. one thing I've learned is that on saxes with inlays, the two sides usually are different. Now this is not going to help, as you don't have a photo of the other side, but it's good to at least know beforehand that you will have to make something different, rather then finding out afterwards!

[dustin reagan]

Well, a fellow myArmoury forumite (who speaks German), sent a request to the museum for more pictures of this blade. Here's a small picture of the opposite side! Jeroen, you were correct, the blade does have a different pattern on each side.

 

 

This picture also gives a better sense of the blade shape...it's quite interesting and now I wish I had tried to replicate this blade shape as well, instead of more of a "honey-lane" shape. Next time! I wonder if this seax may have had a deeper belly that got "used up" over multiple honings?

 

Dustin

 

Edit: replaced linked image with higher resolution version.

Edited September 9, 2010 by dustin reagan

[Jeroen Zuiderwijk]

Great! Nice to be correct on these things (as I usually are ). N.b. did he get a chance to get the measurements as well? I'd be very interested in how accurate my memory is on this one.

[dustin reagan]

Great! Nice to be correct on these things (as I usually are ). N.b. did he get a chance to get the measurements as well? I'd be very interested in how accurate my memory is on this one.

 

 

No measurements, unfortunately...

[GEzell]

Well, a fellow myArmoury forumite (who speaks German), sent a request to the museum for more pictures of this blade. Here's a small picture of the opposite side! Jeroen, you were correct, the blade does have a different pattern on each side.

 

 

 

This picture also gives a better sense of the blade shape...it's quite interesting and now I wish I had tried to replicate this blade shape as well, instead of more of a "honey-lane" shape. Next time! I wonder if this seax may have had a deeper belly that got "used up" over multiple honings?

 

Dustin

 

Edit: replaced linked image with higher resolution version.

Wow, thank you for posting this!

Very interesting how the two sides relate stylistically to one another. Almost no edge curve to this one, either...almost but not quite straight.

I have tentative plans to make a sax based on this one myself, if my inlaying ability improves.