Tebu or not Tebu

Tim Simmons · 11th December 2014, 03:21 PM

Here?

Iain · 11th December 2014, 03:27 PM

Hmm, could be, but it doesn't seem clear cut like the example you and I had to examine. The join doesn't seem to cross the spine. Perhaps Marcus can add his thoughts?

Tim Simmons · 11th December 2014, 03:55 PM

It looks like it may be staggered at the opposite sides and there appears to be a kind of lump between?

Marcus · 12th December 2014, 10:46 PM

Nothing on my sword looks like a weld to me. I asked my blacksmith friend Steve Bloom, who makes knives and short swords from his own pattern weld Damascus how he thought it might have been made:

"Start with a square piece -- on the diamond -- work it between two plate of steel - each with a grove aligned over the other - one "corner" into the bottom and one (the opposite) into the top. Mash. I've seen (Al) Pendray do this this. With a top & bottom tool, it isn't that hard."

Tim Simmons · 12th December 2014, 11:37 PM

Well there we are, not hard to do but clever non the less. Very informative thread.

Iain · 13th December 2014, 10:32 AM

Yep, that makes sense. Forge welding packets.

11th December 2014, 03:21 PM	#1
Tim Simmons Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: What is still UK Posts: 5,843	Here? Attached Images

12th December 2014, 10:46 PM	#4
Marcus Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 420	I don't see a weld Nothing on my sword looks like a weld to me. I asked my blacksmith friend Steve Bloom, who makes knives and short swords from his own pattern weld Damascus how he thought it might have been made: "Start with a square piece -- on the diamond -- work it between two plate of steel - each with a grove aligned over the other - one "corner" into the bottom and one (the opposite) into the top. Mash. I've seen (Al) Pendray do this this. With a top & bottom tool, it isn't that hard."

11th December 2014, 03:27 PM	#2
Iain Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Olomouc Posts: 1,708	Hmm, could be, but it doesn't seem clear cut like the example you and I had to examine. The join doesn't seem to cross the spine. Perhaps Marcus can add his thoughts?

11th December 2014, 03:55 PM	#3
Tim Simmons Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: What is still UK Posts: 5,843	It looks like it may be staggered at the opposite sides and there appears to be a kind of lump between?

12th December 2014, 11:37 PM	#5
Tim Simmons Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: What is still UK Posts: 5,843	Well there we are, not hard to do but clever non the less. Very informative thread.

13th December 2014, 10:32 AM	#6
Iain Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Olomouc Posts: 1,708	Yep, that makes sense. Forge welding packets.