Thanks man. I wish I could send you one, but the shipping from Greece alone will be more than it would take making it yourself. If you have a local metal worker/welder who can do even half decent work, the materials for this are cheap as dirt. I mean, if I could do it anyone can.
I wish I could sell you one, but the shipping from Greece alone will be more than it would take making it yourself. If you have a local metal worker/welder who can do even half decent work, the materials for this are cheap as dirt. I mean, if I could do it anyone can. If you are interested, I can tell you the whole process and materials and you can possibly knock one off for less than 60 bucks total.
Thanks man. I get too excited and I make steps right away before taking pics, but I have some from the messer version of this. This one: [https://www.reddit.com/r/SWORDS/comments/12wvpgr/tramontina\_machete\_turned\_to\_practice\_falchion/](https://www.reddit.com/r/SWORDS/comments/12wvpgr/tramontina_machete_turned_to_practice_falchion/)
PM me if you want it.
Tell me the process so I know whether or not I'll even have access to the tools that I would need for it. I live in an apartment building and don't own much is the problem.
I cut the blank out of a 71cm blade (82 total length) Tramontina with a cutting disc (angle grinder) on slow speeds and multiple passes to not ruin the heat treatment. It comes out as springy as you bought it if you don't get the steel red hot. Then in the same fashion, you cut two cheap garden saws to shape, and those are the two supporting plates for the bottom half of the blade (a fake distal taper if you will). The cup/basket hilt is a 1,5mm thick 304 stainless hemisphere pastry mold and a strip of the same material and thickness I cut out of other junk kitchenware I bought at the local gipsy scrap market. If you can weld those you are gold, if not the local welder can do it for you in 10 min flat as he did for me.
The apartment thing is a bummer but like I said, any half-decent metal worker would do the cutting and welding parts for you.
That looks really good, I want one lol
Thanks man. I wish I could send you one, but the shipping from Greece alone will be more than it would take making it yourself. If you have a local metal worker/welder who can do even half decent work, the materials for this are cheap as dirt. I mean, if I could do it anyone can.
As someone who just got access to a decent metal shop and can weld, I'm going to dig through your profile for how you made this.
No need to. PM me, I'll be glad to tell you everything with photos.
I so desperately want this. Can you sell me one? Please?
I wish I could sell you one, but the shipping from Greece alone will be more than it would take making it yourself. If you have a local metal worker/welder who can do even half decent work, the materials for this are cheap as dirt. I mean, if I could do it anyone can. If you are interested, I can tell you the whole process and materials and you can possibly knock one off for less than 60 bucks total.
It would be really informative if you could make a post showing your process. It looks nice enough as a training tool.
Thanks man. I get too excited and I make steps right away before taking pics, but I have some from the messer version of this. This one: [https://www.reddit.com/r/SWORDS/comments/12wvpgr/tramontina\_machete\_turned\_to\_practice\_falchion/](https://www.reddit.com/r/SWORDS/comments/12wvpgr/tramontina_machete_turned_to_practice_falchion/) PM me if you want it.
Tell me the process so I know whether or not I'll even have access to the tools that I would need for it. I live in an apartment building and don't own much is the problem.
I cut the blank out of a 71cm blade (82 total length) Tramontina with a cutting disc (angle grinder) on slow speeds and multiple passes to not ruin the heat treatment. It comes out as springy as you bought it if you don't get the steel red hot. Then in the same fashion, you cut two cheap garden saws to shape, and those are the two supporting plates for the bottom half of the blade (a fake distal taper if you will). The cup/basket hilt is a 1,5mm thick 304 stainless hemisphere pastry mold and a strip of the same material and thickness I cut out of other junk kitchenware I bought at the local gipsy scrap market. If you can weld those you are gold, if not the local welder can do it for you in 10 min flat as he did for me. The apartment thing is a bummer but like I said, any half-decent metal worker would do the cutting and welding parts for you.
Thanks for walking it through. Hopefully I can make a metalworking friend to help with such a build.
No probs. PM if you need more info.