Designing as a variation of tradition

[Antonio Cejunior]

Greetings everyone from this Fantastic forum

Been absent for a while in lack of a topic.

Some of you, gentlemen, may remember my visit to
http://www.arscives.com/bladesign/visit.aranyik.htm Aranyk which Mark so kindly linked to his website.

That blade I bought there at LungSom has meantime been heat treated and the fittings were done here in Macau, and it is now in the final stages of completion.

Here's the concept.



and here is the blade after heat treatment



and finally the blade and the almost-finished scabbard, superb work by Nathan Creel.



I will now go on in the next post