Sword Making | Fantasy GLADIUS

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Making my first sword has been quite a journey! So many lessons learned, so many new bigger tools I want to make, I suspect it's a never ending rabbit hole! And I can't wait to jump in deeper.
This sword is made of 1070 high carbon steel (aka c70) with cast brass guard and pommel and iroko wood handle with brass and copper wire inlays.
Needless to say the most challenging part has been the heat treatment, being used to heat steel with my temperature controlled oven these days, going back to coke forge it's been rough. The main problem is the heat being too high and too localized, so yes, I'll make a long propane forge sometime soon!
Making the cast brass guard and pommel on the other hand has been very straight forward starting from a 3D printed pattern.
For the handle I really wanted to try again wire inlay like I did on the quillon dagger to put into practice what I learned last time. It came out better, the wires are tighter and the grooves more consistent, but still far away from being perfect. Needles files is probably the way to go instead of dremel tools.
Finally the resin "gems" are not the best, they could look more interesting and the way the two on the blade are set could be better. I had to make those work to stick to the reference.
Overall very happy with the final product and I can't wait to try my hands at making swords again!

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0:00 Forge Blade
1:08 Profile Shape
3:48 Grind Bevels and Fuller
4:40 Heat Treatment
5:47 Final Grind
6:26 Guard and Pommel Cast
8:42 Guard
12:08 Tang
12:57 Handle
15:11 Wire Inlays
16:34 Pommel
17:33 Gems
19:12 Test

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