Mainz sword transformation

[LUCIUS ALFENUS AVITIANUS]

Hello,

I'm working in a Mainz sword.

The first thing i have do is to buy one of the thousands of bad swords that we can find at internet. I have choose that:



I think it's an old deepeeka model, but i'm not sure. I will use the blade, and the leather covered wood scabbard.

My intention is to make something like this:



So, the first think was to get off all the metalic pieces of the scabbard.

I will cut the "ricasso", so the blade lenght will be shorter. So, the first thing i have made is to calculate the lenght of the scabbard and cut the excess.

The second think is to made a metalic "skin" for the frontal part of the scabbard. As you can see in the picture, only one face of the scabbard was covered. Generally, those plates were copper alloys tined, with a silver appearence and very thin.

I have used a brass foil of 0,2 mm gauge. I have tined it carefully, to avoid the aparition of ridges. I have used a tin solder paste.

Then, i have put it over the scabbard and made some pressure to get the foil to take the form. It's easy, because the thin gauge and because the metal has been soften with the heat need for the tining.

TO BE CONTINUED, with pictures...