this is a little bit of an old discussion but im sure its as valid today as when it was started..
ther eis only one way to remove dents in sword and bayonet scabbards.. its with a steel STEEL mandrel.. sticking wood in the scabbard would end up with it getting stuck ..
the armourers had many mandrel forms for the scabbards and for different sections of a scabbard.
no frozen water or rice or sand will remove anything from a steel scabbard.
doing this will just waste your time or damage it more.
ive neevr seen anyone remove dents on a trumpet with frozen water.. seems unlikely to work unless its a very shallow dent on a very thin area inwhich case some dry ice and a cloth can do it too.. like on a car bonnet..
dents in brass in struments are removed with a clomplex extencive set of mandrels and things claled dent balls that are attached on a flexable cable and plulled through the instrument ... a repairman has maybe 100 dentballs alone and probably 100 or more different mandrels and many specialised tools
the dents on the scabbard are not made by some swiss office trying to remove "rattling" this just not logical.
he would be phisically BROKEN IN TWO for even intentionally putting his intiials on the scabbard.. let alone a huge dent like this. the belting you would have faced would have been extreme. even in todays military if your kits inspected and there is something showing signs of vandalisim your in for it .
the scabbard if damaged during service would be sent to the armourer and have the dents removed or a new scabbard procured and the dented scabbard reparied and put in storage.
dents on scabbards are from 3 things.. combat.. i.e. ww1 bayonet scabbards with big dents .. impacts from fragments.. ect.
from post military service damage.. i.e. falling down on the ground at a show.. being tossed about rudely.. being crushed under a pallet or crate.. like whats probably happened to this sabre.
and 3.. retards intentionally belting them on things. using the scabbard as another sword and belting the two togeather...
ushally the handywork of the worst kind of spastic destructive kids. the type that pull cats tails for a laugh or smash grannys delft collection and say it fell down because a truck went by but when caught they say it was their friend who went home early and slither out of it.. only to offend later on with this here sword scabbard haha .
ive seen as many idotic adults do it too (grownup versions of those destructive kids i guess) .. "Dis kaTaNA loOks LiKE It CouLD cHoP woOd!... chop chop SNAP! TWANG! stupid japs dont know how to make nuffin!"
so somebody mindlessly animalistically belting such a scabbard with all their force against a metal railing or a tree or somethign and saying "why wont IT cut!?" seems the most logical cause of damage most of the time unfortunatly.
the best method is as you cant make a full mandrel or a larger mandrel or full sized mandrel .. is make a small mandrel 2 inch long or so maybe so it can pass the curves and chamfor its edges nicely .. polish it well and lube it up.. then weld it on a stout rod and depending where the dents are curve the rod to the curve of the sheath as it goes in you can then attempt to push the dents out this will take the most of them out.
you might need a rubber mallet to to pus the mkandrel in and then hanmer the section around a sandbag carefully if there is some outward deformity and your mandrel just dosnt get the wrinkles out.
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