If and When I am being addressed, plain ol Mac works fine.. i will respond to anything, but if you find mac easier do it.. i am Mac, just that most sites have a user already called that.
Dr, Tad, I am more interested in making, but don't always know how. So the questions on the T shape have interested me for a long time, but in my mind I had over complicated things which is typical for me.
How simple and what a great idea it is to clamp hot steel in a vise and 'bump it up"/ "upset it".
That car door thing made me laff..
Once I did make a short sword like a German short Hunting sword, and that car door topic came up from time to time over that piece. I never tried it, and ended up trading it for a Brown Bess, the sticker for the bess and a ball mold. So that one is long gone too.
The grip on that was some exotic wood with worm holes and very dark brown. I made a nickel twister wire spiral the grip in 4 lines, so it wasn't a wire to wire wrap, and the pomell end was a bit of 3/16th steel with a ball end final hand filed looked something like a pumpkin. It had a flat steel guard too, filed to like like rope, and I made a cabard for it of thin wood maybe all of 1/64th inch thick sewwn in brown deer hide. There was a steel fitting around the top with a sort of shield look on the front, and a point tip on the scabbard to match.
2 small steel chains ran from the top steel part to a oval with a tang, folded over to hang off a belt, but it could be removed from the belt just lifting the oval. I might still have that if the Bess didn't come along.
