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That's my thrid swordblade, i started polishing this morning. After 6 hours i'm near to finish one side with the 40grain paper. The finsihed polish will be done by 2000grain paper. It will take more or less 5 days to polish the whole blade.
It is the only way do correct the mashine grind and polish the blade, without special tools like a leatherweel for dry-fine. I expecte a value from 1500euro for the finsihed sword, maybe more.
The blade is a replica of the Sutton Hoo Spatha of burial mound 17. Source: Martin, Carver: Sutton Hoo: A Seventh-century Princely Burial Ground And Its Context, 19. September 2005
Blade is forged from 56Si7:
Lenght: 776mm
Width: 57mm at Cross and 44mm one hand wifth before point
Tang: 166mm
Weight: 850g
It is the only way do correct the mashine grind and polish the blade, without special tools like a leatherweel for dry-fine. I expecte a value from 1500euro for the finsihed sword, maybe more.
The blade is a replica of the Sutton Hoo Spatha of burial mound 17. Source: Martin, Carver: Sutton Hoo: A Seventh-century Princely Burial Ground And Its Context, 19. September 2005
Blade is forged from 56Si7:
Lenght: 776mm
Width: 57mm at Cross and 44mm one hand wifth before point
Tang: 166mm
Weight: 850g
Category All / All
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 1200 x 900px
File Size 324 kB
Yes i hate polishing too, but i ordered a leatherweel to do it faster, but these weels are customemade, so i have to be patient, it took around two month to produce them. I need to work most efficient as possible, then there aren't much poeple who would pay a hand polished sword. They exist, but are still rare.
Theres a fair number of folks doing hand polished work in the US- But they don't generally advertise because they get most or all of their work by word of mouth.
Back in the 80s, there were knifemakers in the US doing a fair amount of traditional Japanese laminated blades, hand polished with water stones.
I think most of them are gone, or stopped doing it when the knife collector market collapsed in the early to mid 90s.
(Most of the makers I used to know personally have died.)
-Badger-
Back in the 80s, there were knifemakers in the US doing a fair amount of traditional Japanese laminated blades, hand polished with water stones.
I think most of them are gone, or stopped doing it when the knife collector market collapsed in the early to mid 90s.
(Most of the makers I used to know personally have died.)
-Badger-
Yes i know how expenciv it is, but this sword is more expenciv than usual. The "standart" swords for fencing or freefight (so not sharp) are polished my maschines like my beldgrinder and polishing block. There i don't need days for polishing. A standart spatha (this one isn't standart, the blade is much longer than the average) starts around 350eur. More complexe blades, are more expensiv, a blade like that, costs arrount 500 eur ore more. So that blade here in the picture is so expencive because i spent a lot of time to do the finish. And the price is just a estimate, bacause i didn't counter the hours, i do it for my self^^
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