‘half-pint zombie slayer’ gets a new coat - pics

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decorum

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Front - 12" square is for scale

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Rear

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Side shot with machete

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Close up of braiding.

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What every potential zombie slayer needs - machete and war hammer

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Specs:

Sheath.

Oiled 3mm veg tan

Brass Sam Browne closure

Copper rivets

Braiding - Pseudo ‘Spanish Edge Lacing of Three Loops’*. It was intended to be and should have been ‘Spanish Edge Lacing of Three Loops’ but it’s not quite correct - it’s somewhere between Two and Three Loops.

Machete.

Blade is stamped 1943. As stamped with the crows foot.
Steel – no idea. It’s pretty soft, it took all of 45 minutes to return the edge to a more usable state.
Handle material – no idea. At the time of construction, (pretty much) whatever was available would have been used

* Please note - Pseudo ‘Spanish Edge Lacing of Three Loops’ isn’t the correct name for the braiding. The correct name is ‘Oops, made a mistake! And continued to make the same mistake. Oh well, it looks reasonable’ :eek:


My apologies for the poor pics.

Thanks for taking the time to look.
 

Mesquite

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Looks really good Phil, you did a great job on the braiding despite you saying you made a mistake :)

Better bring it along with you to the moot so we can cut our way through all that balsam :lmao::lamo:
 

decorum

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Better bring it along with you to the moot so we can cut our way through all that balsam :lmao::lamo:

I've just remembered that I've got a hand sickle lurking in the garage :welcome: :lmao:
I'll give it a half decent edge bin the morning ....


Nice work Phil, wouldn't of noticed any mistakes on that myself. :)

Cheers. I only noticed when I looked in the book for the braid I want to use on the kindling splitter :eek: Like I said - wrong, but looks reasonable :D :lmao:
 

Mesquite

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I've just remembered that I've got a hand sickle lurking in the garage :welcome: :lmao:
I'll give it a half decent edge bin the morning ....

Damn.... I should have thought of that.

I've got a load of those sat in the works store room doing nothing since we banned the offenders using them :nono:

I could have sold them on to folks who want to fight their way through the balsam :rolleyes:
 

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