Seax-type long Viking knife with sharp Damascus steel blade. This handmade Viking Age knife is based on an original seax / Baltic war knife from Salaspils Laukskolas Cemetery, Latvia, and features a razor-sharp 256-layer Damascus* steel blade. The wooden handle has an oval cross section that ensures a solid grip on the knife. It features bone inlays and a brass or steel collar and stock. The butt cap is equipped with a convenient eyelet for threading a lanyard (leather lanyard is included in delivery).
The beautiful vegetable-tanned leather sheath with period details is equipped with three rings and a split strap suspension system for a typical Viking-style belt.
The knife is available with a brown wooden handle and brown leather sheath with brass hardware or with a black wooden handle and black leather sheath with steel hardware.
Please note that as the blade is sharp and fully functional, this scramasax is intended as a collector's item or decoration and is not suitable for combat re-enactment.
The terms Damascus, damascened, or pattern welded steel designate a composite steel forged from two or more different types of steel. It is named after its birthplace, the Syrian city of Damascus, a former stronghold of stamped steel production. As a common practice, a harder high carbon steel and a softer low carbon steel are repeatedly welded and folded together. High-carbon steel ensures higher hardness, better hardenability and longer-lasting edge retention, while the softer steel gives the blade greater flexibility and tensile strength. Emerging at a time when steel grades were often low and inconsistent, this procedure allows the positive attributes of different steel grades to be combined. Additionally, the different hues generated by the varying carbon content of the alternating layers make for strikingly beautiful patterns, such as the twisted motif called the Torsion Damascus pattern or the Rose Damascus pattern. Undoubtedly, these unusual patterns explain in part why inherent magical properties were attributed to Damascus steel blades of the Middle Ages.
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