Cleaned up basket hilt

[beloitpiper]

My new basket hilt I got from a fellow Gordon. After a little elbow grease it looks great!

Before:


After:


Finally:



Still a little work to be done on the tip, but I'm getting there!

[thescot]

Good work, and it's not always easy to clean up a sword.

I try to keep mine slightly oiled to discourage rusting since I only haul it out for the Burns Supper once a year.

[slohairt]

That's a nice looking sword, Greg. I've always wanted nice basket hilt but could never really justify the expense. (I can't believe I just said that on this forum! )

[fluter]

That's a nice looking sword, Greg. I've always wanted nice basket hilt but could never really justify the expense. (I can't believe I just said that on this forum! )

Hee hee. I don't want much: just the Lady Vivamus by Albion.

[james a. husky]

Do folks want me to detail how we used to take care of issues like this?


Like sand and boiling hot water for scouring the musket and brick dust for polish? It works well, just needs a lot of elbow grease to keep the metal bright.

As an artifact collector, I understand the importance of keeping things looking "Gen". Yet the reenactor in me requires the maintenance of items to be as it would have been when they were actually being used.

It amuses me that the "distressed" French farmhouse look, with the peeling paint and flaking plaster with exposed bricks is so desirable, when in reality, a person of that imagined romatic period whould have been horrified to have his home look so "ghetto"!

I DO use artifacts for their intended purposes from time to time, and those items are maintained in excellent condition, reflecting the way their previous owners would have kept them. An attitude that drives an archeologist friend of mine completely bonkers!

Jim aka kiltiemon

[WeaselMender]

Hee hee. I don't want much: just the Lady Vivamus by Albion.

Not having a project in the offing, a nice sale on rayskin at the leather factory, an unkept promise to my self for a sword, an O-1 billet of cable damascus wating for shaping, and plenty of time at the moment gets my weaseley mind thinking "hummmmm I wonder".

Weasel :ootd:

[dowofbuchanan]

good on ya mate, i fine piece to be sure

[Cynthia]

Very nice!

[McMurdo]

Nice work Greg.

[Nighthawk]

It looks great! What did you use to clean it? I have my great grandfather's saber from the Civil War- in near perfect condition, aside from tarnish- and I would love to clean it.