fab-bladesmith: Lucienne.A Sword for Armoured Fighting. Germany, late XVth century.Commission work a
fab-bladesmith: Lucienne.A Sword for Armoured Fighting. Germany, late XVth century.Commission work after sword 126.006 of the Wiener Bürgerliches Zeughaus.Spring Steel blade. The cross and pommel are old iron. Grip is Silk over Velvet on a wooden core.This is a well known model with the distinctive feature of having a blunt section about one third down the blade (actually an hexagonal cross-section) that allows the placement of the left hand, as required in many techniques of German Harnischfechten of the XVth century and later. The rest of the blade shows a rhomboid cross-section.The flats of the blade bear the ruining wolf of Passau inlaid in brass, as well as another mark.Close-up observation of the original sword revealed that underneath the surface wrapping of the grip there was a sort of fabric ; the thread itself, often described as leather, was in fact a yarn of fibrous material. I therefore went for crimson velvet and silk, dyed using historical methods.The yarn is wrapped and knotted over the fabric, 4 knots per turn, and each knot naturally pulls and tightens the previous ones.Dimensions undisclosed, but we’re very close to the original sword. Point of balance is near the wolf of Passau.Many thanks to Martin E., Wyte Phantom, l'Atelier de Micky, Florian Fortner and Julian Schrattenecker from Fechtschule Klingenspiel, Dr Daniel Jaquet, Florine Michelin and of course Thomas Schmuziger.You’ll find a study of the original sword with full dimensions - and more swords ! - at rapier.at, the Klingenspiel website. -- source link