This was one of my distraction projects back when I was in school. I believe it was physics III, Thomas something or other did the double slit experiment, proving the particle/wave duality of light energy.
The things I create often tend to take on characteristics and hues of the other things I’m learning or going through. Thus, the double-edged sword was to be named Doubleslit.
The Sword
The blade came already blanked, I just added a shank and made a handle. The shank was made from a 3/8” bolt. The handle was made using walnut, ebony and olive woods with brass accents.
The blade was procured through eBay, it’s not the highest quality, but it serves my purposes well. I got the blade for some ridiculous discount because the shank was broken off - so the first thing I did was cut the head off of a 3/8” bolt, put a 3/16” slot in the cut end, slide the blade into the slot, and weld into position.
I machined a flat spot and tapped a 3/8” thread into the large brass block. Once the handle was assembled I would sand it into a ball.
Then I drilled through walnut blocks and brass plates so the bolt could pass through. The middle section, with ebony and olive woods, was a little more complicated. I drew out a circle of the same diameter as my handle and divided it into even triangles before attempting to cut small triangles from blocks (of the same height) on a band saw.
Once the pieces were cut, I brushed them all down with wood glue and assembled them in between brass plates. I threaded the brass ball onto the 3/8” bolt shank, tightening it down until wood glue could be seen seeping out of the handle’s center. I left this to dry.
Finally, I just shaped it. I put a belt sander in a vice and locked the trigger in the on position, and sanded for hours. Eventually, I got it to the shape you see now, and there is where I left it.
The Sheath
I cut two boards to the approximate length I would need, and separately cut out two thin strips, about as thick as the blade. I glued the two boards together, sandwiching the thin strips in between to create the opening for the blade.
I wrapped the wood with leather, using adhesive on the underside and brass tacks at the seams. I used different colored cuts of leather to create depth around the ornamentation, which consisted of the name tape from my army uniform and the unit crest from my beret. I colored the name tape black with a permanent marker to give the text a subdued effect, and then closed it out by adding straps to mount it to my quiver and a loop on the front for a small pick axe.
I’ll have to dig out the quiver at som point and perhaps show the two assembled together. For now though, that’s I have to say about that!
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