Bone hilt details

[Anonymous]

Graham.<br>
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That'd be good. I'll send you an e-mail.<br>
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Conal <p></p><i></i>

[aitor iriarte]

Gregg,<br>
You're right, metatarsial bones don't have those 'feeding' holes, I think. I was assuming that it was the same bone I carved my grip from, a calf femur.<br>
About my hilt, I used cow and horse femurs. The pommel is made of five parts, the centre, two for the beak and the two sides( those are of horse bone). The grip is made in one piece, out of a calf's femur. The guard is made of three pieces, a rectangular tube plus two 'stoppers'<br>
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Aitor <p></p><i></i>

[Anonymous]

Aitor,<br>
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Where can I see a pikky of your hilt ?<br>
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Conal <p></p><i></i>

[aitor iriarte]

Here is it, again:<br>
<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v110/tribunus/Spatha-1.jpg" style="border:0;"/><br>
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Aitor <p></p><i></i>

[Anonymous]

Beauty !! <p></p><i></i>

[Anonymous]

That is just absolutely beautiful, Aitor. Was the carving hard work or is it like carving a piece of wood?<br>
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Jurgen/Quintilianus <p></p><i></i>

[aitor iriarte]

Thanks, guys !<br>
Bone is like a very hard wood but can be easily worked using saw and files. I've never tried to chip it with a knife, but it should be a really sharp one, I think!<br>
I intended first to replicate the hilt from Severinstor, Köln, but I spent some hours at St. Mark's Square drawing details of the Tetrarchs and then found out that a calf's femur had almost the exact shape required for the eagle's neck! Alea iacta erat!...<br>
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Aitor <p></p><i></i>

[Lucius Aurelius Metellus]

Aitor, your sword hilt is absolutely beautiful, my friend! That is a spectacular piece, a true work of art... <p>Lucius Aurelius Metellus, miles gregarius, Secunda Brittanica</p><i></i>

[Robert Vermaat]

I never saw that picture before. You did that? Wonderful ..<br>
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Valete,<br>
Valerius/Robert <p></p><i></i>

[Anonymous]

I am truly motivated now to learn how to work bone<br>
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I like the finer things in life, and that is definately one of them!!<br>
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Cavetus <p></p><i></i>

[aitor iriarte]

The hilt was one of the pieces of equipment I made first, around 1995, if I recall well.<br>
Bone is a lovely material to work once it is freed from the stenching marrow and other more organic components!<br>
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Aitor <p></p><i></i>

[Anonymous]

you can always use it to make soup first, that should get rid of the marrow!<br>
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Jurgen/Quintilianus <p></p><i></i>

[aitor iriarte]

Soup?!!!<br>
That could go for cow bones...<br>
When I boiled a horse femur, the stench was so cosmic that it could have attracted all wolves and werewolves from several kilometres around!<br>
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Aitor <p></p><i></i>

[Anonymous]

Well, maybe the werewolves could be potential recruits<br>
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Cavetus <p></p><i></i>