05-04-2018, 01:10 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-04-2018, 01:20 PM by Mark Reich.)
Well, if you google the image, it seems to be simply stylistic of Siberian forged blades. There's quite a bit to go on.
In some pictures you can see a lot of writing in relief inside the fuller.
It seems to me that sort of writing would be very difficult to produce, unless there was a die with the writing cut out. Then you'd just have to lay the die on the anvil and do most of the forging from the other side.
It would save a considerable amount of steel without affecting the strength of the blade much.
In some pictures you can see a lot of writing in relief inside the fuller.
It seems to me that sort of writing would be very difficult to produce, unless there was a die with the writing cut out. Then you'd just have to lay the die on the anvil and do most of the forging from the other side.
It would save a considerable amount of steel without affecting the strength of the blade much.