Folded Steel Viking Sword

The viking age or carolingian era sword developed in the 8th century from the merovingian sword more specifically the frankish production of swords in the 6th to 7th century itself derived from the roman spatha and during the 11th to.

Folded steel viking sword. These bands can be highlighted for. While the sword is the same as our 5160 carbon steel collection this blade has been forged with the traditional japanese folded steel method creating a beautiful and original pattern created by multiple layers of folded steel. This produces a subtle hada right on the blade s surface. Pattern welding is the practice in sword and knife making of forming a blade of several metal pieces of differing composition that are forge welded together and twisted and manipulated to form a pattern.

5160 folded steel swords 7 accessories 13 arming swords 3 axes 10 viking axes 7 battle axes 5 broadsword 7 celtic jewelry 5 claymore swords 4 dark sword shirt 4 darksword cap 1 decorative sword 8 dsa replica swords 1 elite series damascus steel swords 21 exclusive pieces 3 fantasy swords 27 folded steel blades 3. Japanese sword blades were often forged with different profiles different blade thicknesses and varying amounts of grind. For any decently made folded steel sword anything between 8 to 14 folds is ideal. Any less and you end up with potentially huge air pockets.

5160 folded steel swords 7 accessories 13 arming swords 3 axes 10 viking axes 7 battle axes 5 broadsword 7 celtic jewelry 5 claymore swords 4 dark sword shirt 4 darksword cap 1 decorative sword 8 dsa replica swords 1 elite series damascus steel swords 21 exclusive pieces 3 fantasy swords 27 folded steel blades 3. Hand forged from 5160 high carbon folded steel differential hardened at a rockwell of 60 at the edge. This is a folded steel version of the oslo viking sword. Japanese swordsmithing is the labour intensive bladesmithing process developed in japan for forging traditionally made bladed weapons including katana wakizashi tantō yari naginata nagamaki tachi uchigatana nodachi ōdachi kodachi and ya.

Each time the billet is folded the number of layers doubles. The process of folding the blade that is utilized for the nihonto is a part of the process of refining steel. Often mistakenly called damascus steel blades forged in this manner often display bands of slightly different patterning along their entire length. The more layers on a folded steel sword the better right.

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