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Published: 2005-02-14 02:20:04 +0000 UTC; Views: 1681; Favourites: 14; Downloads: 96
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It is made out of steel. Ignore the rust, it needs to be polished.Yup, you guessed it. I made this while reading the LOTR. It was (okay say major geek) as my English project for a college class. Needless to say I got an A. Cool class, central to reading was LOTR. I hammered the runes into the blade per the description in the book but you can't see them.
39 inches long.
Brass handle.
Steel hilt, blade and pommel
What's wrong with it - the handle should have been longer. It should be a 2 handed sword. Its heavy. Too heavy to handle with 1 hand, but I was working with a limited budget. I couldn't afford to buy more brass. Oh well. It still is cool.
The sword was not forged. It was done on a milling machine and a metal lathe (handle/pommel).
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wow this is amazing
How did you get all the stuff togeather to make it? I mean I design a few swords or weapons that I would like to make me self, but living in thailand I don't have much to work with.
So why didn't you use a grinder instead of sand paper?
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I didn't use sand paper. Well, recently I have to remove rust because that is strong enough to remove the rust.
My brother had a rectangular piece of steel that he let me use to make this project on his milling machine with his help because prior to making this I did not know how to use his metal shop tools. Basically a milling machine has a small circular attachment that literally grinds/chips away pieces of metal - we did it this way since we didn't have anything that could do a precision cut length ways down both sides of the original piece at an angle. It was kind of neat - we used some math tricks to figure angles. Useful stuff they don't teach you in school.
I'm glad you liked it. Good luck on your projects.
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Looking at the rest of your gallery, I'd of never thought you were the type of person who makes swords....amazing!!!
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lol...you never know about those quiet types. We're the ones to worry about. I've been thinking about making a 10 things bad girl journal entry.
Besides the sword - helped my brother inlaw make a gun where the barrel folded down into the handle. Needless to say it wasn't very pleasing to the eye, just a crazy idea we came up with.
Crazy woman I tell ya.
I just wish I could set my mind to finish some of my celtic designs. Yours are fantastic. And your buddha design is ummm....unique. makes me smile so that's a good thing.
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Hey..I also like your barn photos...I gotta thing about barns....hummm???
All the best~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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That A in your class was well-deserved. That is an awesome sword, even with a limited budget!
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Thanks. Crazy to take on such an ambitious project for a silly literature class, but...I never said I was normal. Insane is an apt description.
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Simple an elegant. I like it. I would definately like to do something like this for a school project. Definately ambitious, but without ambition you'd just be an average student. Great work on the whole.
To the part about it not being forged: Meh. Honestly I wouldn't have been able to tell ig you hadn't let that slip, so I think this is impressive. I shall now browse through your gallery.
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Thank you so much for your kind words.
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Now about this icon of yours....*chuckles*
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You deserve them 
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Thanks for stopping by and the comments.
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Thats awesome!! u made it holy crap ur awesome! If i could do that i would be making so many swords!
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Thank you
Its only good to look at though. The sword unfortunately was not forged, but it still looks really cool. And that was the only thing I was going for at the time anyway.
Glad you like it. A school project only an insane person would do.
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Lol, if i had the chance i would so do it. Good job!
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Cool sword, I see why you got an A in the class. It is well made. How many punds does it weight, I know they are heavy but curious
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Thank you.
I don't know how many pounds it weights. It is fairly heavy. I need two hands, to swing it with control, but hey I'm a girl. Perhaps some muscular guy could do it with one, I don't know. I don't plan on finding one to ask either.
I don't own a scale or else I'd go grab it and weigh it.
Actually, I did get an A in the class. I also wrote some really good papers on the character Gandalf using Tolkein's own letters to other people and a paper on one of Ursula Leguin's novels. Fantasy had to be one of my favorite classes. But Sci-fi and Greek Myth were really cool too.
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Cause i was lifting this 12 pound bar, and I was like 12 pounds is nothing, but when you are holding it from one end it it feels like more, gravity things. I'm glad you got an A, I have to read those books one day, TLOTR.
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Also, most blades from the period this blade would have been used in, were meant to contend with either lightly armored infantry or heavily armored knights. Against the first, simple cut and thrust would have been enough to sheer mail, get between the gaps in light plate, and just cut through padded and leather armor. Against a Knight, you have two options with this blade. . . 1, try to knock him down and stab him to death through a slit in his armor or 2, run like hell and let an infantryman with counter-armor weaponry such as hammers, axes, picks, and the infamous Guttentag go to town on him. Knight on Knight battles you had gauntlets, so it wasn't unknown/uncommon to see a knight with a greatsword grasp it by the edge and use the entire surface to try and knock his opponet to death so he could be taken prisoner for ransom, or just run through.
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Its my understanding in ancient warfare that in general you tried to capture, not kill the knights and nobles. They were much more value for ransom. That way you could get your own 'elite' people back.
Even up to the Napoleanic Wars it was pretty much unheard of to shoot and kill the officers. Officers were a class above the common man and normally they were captured. Mentality stemming from earlier times. I wonder if that goes back to the Equites elite of the Roman era? hmmm...
Thanks for your input. I am not expert on warfare or how it was waged just a sci-fi/fantasy buff mucking around or an occassional read of Hornblower series or Sharpe's, the latter 2 being in the early 1800's.
I know little bits of a lot of things, but not alot about any one thing. 
Thanks for the info. You know more than I.
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Bit of advice from a blacksmith.
1) Not forging it means that if you want to use it, you'll want to temper it. As Tempering is an artform, I'll have to send you webpages on it if you wanna do that.
2) to cut down on weight, consider cutting a fuller or bloodgrove into the center of the blade. This serves 2 purpouses really. First, it will make the sword lighter, which is always a plus. Second, it will make the blade stronger when going to stab. As it stands right now, a milled blade like that will look nice and won't be bad for chopping, but if you try to penetrate any real armor with it, you are going to likely either bend or break your blade. Tempering will help this, but the best thing you can do is put in some structural supports in the form of a fuller.
3) To counterbalance the weight and allow that blade to realy fly, consider putting on a heavier pomel. That will move the center of gravity closer to your hand and allow the blade to become really an extention of your body.
All and all, nice work. It's not going to be a combat ready blade, but then again, short of a master bladesmith working on a peice, you aren't going to find any combat ready blades out there. Nice job
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Thanks for your input.
No this will not be used for anything except to hang on my wall. If you gave it a good whack it might break off at the base where it screws into the handle because I had to significantly cut the metal in order to fit it inside the handle. I almost posted this as one of its faults but felt it was extraneous info to the question asked.
All in all the balance on it is not that bad. Its center is a little further up the blade than I would like which I think could be fixed by extending the handle to be a 2 handed sword or maybe a sword and a half or as you say, a heavier pommel.
As I stated in my original post, this was a college English project for The Lord of the Rings. It was an ambitious undertaking for the class. Writing a paper would have been easier. But I am not know for doing things the easy way.
Besides, :icocntawnya: has 2 claymores that we can use if we decide to go into battle with anyone
If I can find time to get the rust off the sword and treat the blade again, I shall be happy.
Thank you again for all your info. And you are completely right about what you wrote
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Nice. You see these "fantasy" swords that are far too intricate or heavy to be much good for fighting dudes with, but yours looks pretty useful. How do you join the bits together?
Now you and zebra girl could have a sword fight somewhere like in an abandoned industral complex, preferably near some neon lights that can explode. The loser could then be decapited by the winner, who would get electrocuted and gain the other's power.
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Thank you.
Well, the guard at the base of the hilt is really too small to be effective to protect your hand adequately. That is if you were really going to use it, but there again I was limited by my $ as a poor college student paying my own way.
The end of the blade was cut down with some metal shop saws and then I threaded it. I also 'tapped' the handle and pommel. So basically it all just screws together.
I didn't know how else to do it.
Original idea for sword was just to paint a wooden one, but like I said, I'm a geek.
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Sounds like _cutting edge_ technology to me.
Is it sharp?
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Fairly sharp. Not as sharp as I would like, but I got bored sanding it. Needless to say my older brother did manage to cut himself on it.
You can think of it like the swords that they fought with long ago. I was watching a pbs special on training of knights and they said they would actually grab/hold the blade of the sword. So I guess it had more to do with brute stretch than a razor edge. But I really don't know.
If you ever get to MA (sorry I can't remember if you are in US or overseas, I apologize) check out Higgins Armory in Worcester. Largest collection of swords and armor in US. I haven't been but I've seen the 'traveling' show.
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They probably wore gloves. I'm from the UK BTW. I think that fully armoured knights were not susceptible to being cut, so swords were thrust at them, and warhammers and maces then superceded the sword for knightly combat, and that were used to smash the opponent (or you could stick a knife in the eyeholes instead. I should watch the war channel more often
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UK, I'll remember that. When I peek at DA sites I normally don't remember where people are from until I talk with them. Well, its not like its that far away - just hop the pond right?
I'm off like a cheap prom dress...
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