Fixing grip wires?

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Originally Posted by celtan

I'm aware the naval saber isn't exactly the fancy-schmancy type. But then, it is precisely it's simplicity and clean lines that attract me. : )

BTW, I own a couple swords that I haven't been able to ID. The first was initially labeled as a french mameluke sword, the second seems to be some sort of academic/cadet sword.

Could they be swedish? Does anything similar appear on SB?

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Manolo

More of a good, honest blade than a general's jewellery, yes.

As for the others, I can't recall seeing anything matching in style to either labelled as Swedish (SB, Seitz' Svärdet och Värjan, The Army Museum's exhibits, various local auctions), so I'd consider it unlikely that they're from around here.

The mameluke hilt doesn't seem to have really caught on up here, and what we have in the way of symmetrical cross-hilts from that period tend to be on civilian swords of honour, quite different in both style and materials from tat one (often gilt brass hilts with mother-of-pearl or Älvdals-porphyry grips).