Greetings...

[drreagan]

Hi,

I've been lurking/learning on these forums for a couple months now and thought I'd finally introduce myself. My name is Dustin Reagan, and I've just begun to practice engraving. My main interest is in dark age, viking & early medieval swords and knives, which often have simple non-ferrous inlay work. After doing a lot of reading/research ( a lot of it on this forum), i finally got around to attempting some inlay. The following is silver wire inlay in a "historically accurate" (wrought iron body with forge welded steel edge) seax blade that I forged. The inlay is pretty rough, but i'm happy with how it turned out. It would have looked much worse if not for the information on this forum, believe me! I used a hammer & chisel with engraving points that I made myself.




Here is the museum piece i based the inlay on:


Here's a work-in-progress thread on a different forum if you are interested:
http://www.myarmoury.com/talk/viewto...=200404#200404

Thanks for looking and nice to meet you all.
Dustin

[Daniel Houwer]

hi Dustin,

So glad to meet you here.
hmmm have to get to my other computer

[Daniel Houwer]

Hi Dustin,

I love your hunchback!
I made something quit similar a while ago.
I make replica's too from the same era and before that time.
My group and I also make the iron that was used in those times.
So smelting Iron from boge ore and forge weling it is part of our game.

Your hungeback looks very good
i will try to show you mine.

Greetings,

Daniel

[Daniel Houwer]

http://www.engravingforum.com/album....9&pictureid=60

[SVD]

Welcome to the forum!

Nice thing about doing a historically accurate piece is you get to do historically accurate engraving!

That blade came out looking quite nice. Looking forward to seeing more of your work.

[drreagan]

Originally Posted by Daniel Houwer

http://www.engravingforum.com/album....9&pictureid=60

Very nice, I like the inlay pattern, and the character of that old steel is great!

[drreagan]

Originally Posted by SVD

Welcome to the forum!

Nice thing about doing a historically accurate piece is you get to do historically accurate engraving!

Hahaha, yes, and "historically accurate" engraving is about the extent of my abilities at present! I'm more interested in the smithing/metallurgy of the blade itself, however I have to say that engraving has really caught my interest. There's something almost magic about being able to carve through something as hard as steel.