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Old 16th October 2008, 10:25 PM   #1
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Default Blades with scraped in fullers

I thought it might be interesting to have a thread featuring photos of blades with scraped in fullers. I'll start

This piece on the bottom has lovely fullers
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Old 19th October 2008, 02:47 AM   #2
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105 views and no one likes fullers? Come on! Just grab one pic from your caches of sword pics, lets see the diversity of decorative and practical fullers!
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Old 19th October 2008, 02:59 AM   #3
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How about these.

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Old 19th October 2008, 05:35 AM   #4
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If a series of alternating "scraped in" grooves runs the length of the blade, does that qualify as a fuller?

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Old 19th October 2008, 10:21 AM   #5
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Hi guys, here are some of mine
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Old 19th October 2008, 10:24 AM   #6
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Old 19th October 2008, 12:47 PM   #7
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I propose to keep the thread on strange - unusual fullers

This is my best on fullers
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Old 19th October 2008, 07:50 PM   #8
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Wow great examples!

Yannis, that knife you posted would have been even more of a pain than some other pieces-- It's easiest to follow the edge or spine when scraping, but that piece used a jig that the blade was clamped into in order to get the non-edge-or-spine following fullers. Cool!

Here's another, you can really see the scraper marks in the second pic, the smith didnt do any more clean-up.
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Old 19th October 2008, 09:57 PM   #9
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Two or more for the road.
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Old 19th October 2008, 10:38 PM   #10
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Ngombe knives.
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Fullers Boa tribe style
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Old 19th October 2008, 11:09 PM   #12
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In Standard English, we cannot have a fuller in a blade unless it has been created by the process of stamping with the tool of the same name.

When we scrape a fuller-like depression in a blade we are sculpting the blade, not fullering it.

However, this is pedantry, and it is probably acceptable in loose colloquial usage to use "fuller" to describe a fuller-like depression, or similar feature.

The example shown in this post is a keris blade that shows multi "fullering", both with and across the grain of the metal. The way in which this is done is not by use of a jig, but by scribing the outline of the feature, and then cutting that outline with cold chisels. In a deep depression the bulk of the material is removed with chisels and gouges, the surface is refined with scrapers, refined further with files, and then polished. Using modern technology the polishing can be done with wet and dry paper, but powdered terracotta mixed with water is also a very effective polishing agent.
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Old 20th October 2008, 04:38 AM   #13
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I am not sure if these fullers are scraped or forged.
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