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

[decorum]

Front - 12" square is for scale

Rear

Side shot with machete

Close up of braiding.

What every potential zombie slayer needs - machete and war hammer

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’


My apologies for the poor pics.

Thanks for taking the time to look.

 

[Mesquite]

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 :lamo:

 

[decorum]

Cheers Steve

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

Would that I could . It's a commission and goes back to its owner this afternoon.

 

[Twodogs]

Nice one Phil
Twodogs

 

[decorum]

Cheers Cliff

 

[MartinK9]

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

 

[decorum]

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

I've just remembered that I've got a hand sickle lurking in the garage :welcome:
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 Like I said - wrong, but looks reasonable

 

[Mesquite]

I've just remembered that I've got a hand sickle lurking in the garage :welcome:
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

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

 

[decorum]

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

I think I might have a long handled sickle knocking about as well :Wow:

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

More money in hiring it/them out