Celtic Leaf Blade Sword, with Cedar Scabbard

This page is documentation for finishing a bronze celtic leaf blade swords.


Materials:
- Sheepskin: 3 6in square pieces
- Imitation sinew
- deer sinew
- a red deerskin
- hide glue
- fish glue
- deodorized beef tallow
- Resin
- Beeswax
Sources:
22 inch unfinished bronze blade: Bronze Age Foundry / Molten Bronze



Parts finished
1.) Made sword polish with 80 percent tallow, 20 percent beeswax.

Parts in progress:

1.) Sanding and polishing the blade.
2.) Carving the pommel pieces. I ordered silver birch wood blocks for the pommel. I am currently carving both. - Still need to acquire the metal bolts to sandwich it all together.
3.) Carving the cedar scabbard.
Cedar has a lot of good qualities to it. It's not good to have a bronze sword in contact with it all the time, though. I have sewed together a tube of sheepskin out of 6 inch squares from Alaskan Leather, and this will serve as the inside. Coarsest of the sheepskin wool is at the bottom. The wool acts similar to the velvet inside an instrument box, but with the benefit that the lanolin will help to polish the sword each time it is removed.
4.) Sanding the sword:
Started with ___ grit sand paper, and am working my way up to 3000 grit. Noticeable improvement with every pass.