Pompeii Sword Reconstruction Thread

[Crispvs]

Very nice work so far Sam - as always.

To secure my own grip, I pushed very small oak wedges down inside it and that has worked well so far with no apparent movement. Of course, my grip is bone, so yours might not be so rigid internally.

For my scabbard leather, I used sheep leather, which seemed preferable to some cow leather I also had of about the same weight. You may not find it as easy to get sheep leather if you wanted to use it, but as leather jackets are normally made from sheep leather, I would think that any factory making leather jackets (not the suede type, which are made from split cow leather, or sheepskin coats, which use a thicker grade of leather) or tannery which supplies leather to jacket manufacturers should be able to provide you with offcuts or seconds which would be big enough for your requirements. If you can get it before they dye it black so much the better.

For another option on pommel nuts, I have a photo in a book somewhere of a fluted, near-flat pommel nut still in situ on a sword tang.

Crispvs