Gotlandic style seax
Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 1:33 pm
Here's one that may appeal to the Ostrogoths among us...
My attempt at a circa 800 AD working knife, known throughout the Germanic speaking world as a seax or sax, as in Saxon.
It's got a composite pattern-welded blade composed of two five-bar laminates of 1084 carbon steel and wrought iron, twisted in opposite directions, with those bars welded onto a blade edge of 1084 carbon steel.
These were typically worn hanging from a belt at the small of the back, edge up.
The handle is red oak treated to make it look kinda like bog oak, aka morta. Didn't really succeed on that one.
I deliberately left the etch at a low contrast, since that's the accepted idea of what the originals looked like when new.
Alan the archaeologist and knifemaker, who dabbles in pipemaking...
My attempt at a circa 800 AD working knife, known throughout the Germanic speaking world as a seax or sax, as in Saxon.
It's got a composite pattern-welded blade composed of two five-bar laminates of 1084 carbon steel and wrought iron, twisted in opposite directions, with those bars welded onto a blade edge of 1084 carbon steel.
These were typically worn hanging from a belt at the small of the back, edge up.
The handle is red oak treated to make it look kinda like bog oak, aka morta. Didn't really succeed on that one.
I deliberately left the etch at a low contrast, since that's the accepted idea of what the originals looked like when new.
Alan the archaeologist and knifemaker, who dabbles in pipemaking...
