Stellenbosch Bladesmithing
Tuesday, 1 December 2015

Gladius projects from a few years ago

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With swords and mountings from this era I can explore the various possibilities offered by organic hilt material as well as the stark contra...

Zweihander project

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Tuesday, 3 November 2015

Work on Walloon sword and a few extra blades

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This project is going to be a bit challenging as the hilt needs to have guard plates inserted. In order to do that, I will cut channels int...
Sunday, 4 October 2015

Making Pole-arms

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I have recently completed a few pole-arms. It has been quite a good exercise in forge-welding as the heads consisted of various components ...
Sunday, 6 September 2015

Sword with blackened fittings

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This two-handed sword features darkened guard, pommel and pommel-nut. In order to darken the fittings to a suitably dark tone to contrast w...
Tuesday, 1 September 2015

Horse and gourd themed tsuba

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Inspired by a series of recent unexpected events, I decided to work on this project. It refers to the sennin Chokwaro summoning a horse fro...
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