A tulwar from Kishanghar

ward · 2nd May 2007, 09:41 PM

why carve it of wax use a wax pencil or crayon write out what you want. mix the acid with inate product to make a slurry or put it straight on and use the wax pencil to put a quick dam around it. quick and dirty. I suspect a slurry would be the easiest. there is a product on the market called peel away main ingediant as I remember is methal chloride. It comes in a putty and would do the job. Sure there was something similar in the areas

Jens Nordlunde · 3rd May 2007, 09:20 AM

Ward,

Your suggestion is, no doubt, good if you want to make the armoury marks to day – but these marks were made a couple of hundred years ago.

ward · 3rd May 2007, 12:43 PM

a wax pencil is just poured wax and was available easily in this period also a acid slurry solution I beleive was easily possible. I will check my references when i get time

B.I · 3rd May 2007, 02:12 PM

Wonderful piece Jens!
....and congratulations to the photographer!!

In the image I have of the armoury, there is a table with a series of hilts, seen from the top (pommel). These hilts are of the same style as yours, and am sure your sword was either in the photo (hard to see) or maybe just outside the shot.

2nd May 2007, 09:41 PM	#1
ward Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 637	why carve it of wax use a wax pencil or crayon write out what you want. mix the acid with inate product to make a slurry or put it straight on and use the wax pencil to put a quick dam around it. quick and dirty. I suspect a slurry would be the easiest. there is a product on the market called peel away main ingediant as I remember is methal chloride. It comes in a putty and would do the job. Sure there was something similar in the areas

3rd May 2007, 09:20 AM	#2
Jens Nordlunde Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Europe Posts: 2,718	Ward, Your suggestion is, no doubt, good if you want to make the armoury marks to day – but these marks were made a couple of hundred years ago.

3rd May 2007, 12:43 PM	#3
ward Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 637	a wax pencil is just poured wax and was available easily in this period also a acid slurry solution I beleive was easily possible. I will check my references when i get time

3rd May 2007, 02:12 PM	#4
B.I Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 485	Wonderful piece Jens! ....and congratulations to the photographer!! In the image I have of the armoury, there is a table with a series of hilts, seen from the top (pommel). These hilts are of the same style as yours, and am sure your sword was either in the photo (hard to see) or maybe just outside the shot.