I use a warco table grinder with a 180 grit belt to do the distal taper on my swords & knives.
I use a 6 inch fine Norton grinding wheel to cut the deep hollow grind to my blade bevels on knives, I usually either do flat diamond cross section or lozenge cross section to my Saxon/Nordic swords with full fullers where applicable.
I made both my vertical sword gas forge, knife forge and the burners I run with 1 mm jets, gets to critical soon enough
All my finishing is to bright done with finer and finer wet & dry until I use the polishing wheel to finish the blades with cannings compound.
Anyhow, here's the Anglo-Saxon Englisc society knife I forge for said society. I was asked to design and forge a knife which belongs to the society alone. After much thought I decided to work out how I saw the traditional Northern Germanic seax may have developed should it have mutated into a utility/tactical knife of today.
I use a full tang with the last 3/4 inch threaded with a M6 x 1 thread and a shaped pommel fitted so the burned on handle can be remade if it gets trashed at any time.
The wood is English grown Ash (I cut it myself and season it over time) and stained with Jacobian Oak before the numerous varnish coats.
Hope you approve and accept my apology for the less than perfect picture (I don't do photography
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Wulfshead
