Making a Germanic Saxon Seax knife from a leaf spring!

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ESTY: https://www.etsy.com/shop/GomersWorks... hours of hard work it's finished! This is a Germanic / Viking fighting seax I recently finished, largest knife / dagger I have made! The blade is forged from 5160 (scrap leaf spring steel), went through hardening twice as well as normalizing to unify the grain structure of the steel even more. The handle is walnut I cut down last year, with 3 micarta spacers and 2 leather spacers and I put a few coats of paste wax on the handle to give it that shine. The final sharpness of the blade was done on a leather strop so it is SHAVING sharp! The engraving on the blade was etched and it's written elder futhorc (futhark) runes, used between the 2nd and 8th century, and found in modern day Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark primarily. If you like the video and want to see more, take a look at my channel where I have many more similar videos and more random videos.

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