Far Away

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Schlachtschwert. So-called Bavarian type. Mid-late XVIth century.

Hand-forged spring steel blade of flat hexagonal section with wavy edges. Hand-forged oil-blacked fittings of mild steel sporting light fileworked and punched decoration.

Tooled and punched leather foregrip over wooden core, and leather covered grip.

Overall length 170 cm, weight is 4009 g. Point of balance is right at the lugs.

The cutting part of the blade is 960 mm long ; the blade is 8 mm thick at its base, and tapers to under 2 mm near the point.

Cross is 456 mm wide, pommel is 50 mm long.

Making this beast of a sword was fun, tremendously fun and…interesting (in both senses of the term) - challenging, even, sometimes. And did I say it was fun ?

But I’ve been in love with these swords ever since I saw them illustrated in the artwork of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay back in the summer of 1991 (fond memories of my brother and his best fiend, as we were crawling or way through the sewers of Bögenhafen). …And here I am now, and here it is.

I hope you’ll like it.

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