3000 Years Old Xiphos (Bronze Cast)

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Looks beautiful. I know bronze doesnt hold it's edge too well but damn does it look nice though.

looks like shit

Beautiful blade but you need to work on your sharpening skills. That’s a very dull blade.

Sort of on topic, this video reminded me of a job I had working in a coil shop that made wiring coils for giant electric motors. The type you find in power plants and rock crushing machines. Each coil of wire would be about 2 meters long and weigh about 20 lbs.

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Great job, this simply looks beautiful !!! 2 objections, just for tha sake of history: Bronze-age-swords would be forged, and not casted, especially the edge would be folded and hammered many times more than the blade´s stem, so that the edge is nearly as hard as iron at the end... When the iron age arrived, never the less, people opted for iron, whenever they could, cause the edge would be even a bit harder, with much less folding and hammering... Second, the Xiphos is a weapon of the iron age, to my knowledge, simply because there´s nearly no clue of bronze-age swords, and when there´s some clue, it ain´t a Xiphos, but only some similar/rerated greek-sword-shape... So, Xiphi (plural of Xiphos) shouldn´t have been built of bronze, since they were first built well into the iron-age-period. In the iron-age, bronze-age-heros would be depicted carrying/using Xiphi, but those iron-age-artists (e.g. at 700bc) couldn´t know how swords looked at 1200bc...

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Хороший меч, но это оружие бронзового века, он не для рубки. Рубили тяжелым длинным мечом за счет инерции от замаха. Бронзовый меч короткий, и главная его функция - заколоть, да и доспехи в это время были в основном из кожи. Сразу скажу, да про железо люди уже конечно знали, но не умели в температуру плавления) Из железа делали мечи, например в сыродутных печах, но это была сталь с примесью шлака.

very cool sword, and great craftsmanship, however, for anyone interested in the true history of these blades...

"Contrary to popular belief, no example of a xiphos made from bronze has ever been found. The several whole or partial xiphe blades found in places such as Olympia, Macedonia and Southern Italy were all made exclusively from iron. Furthermore Xiphos swords only began to appear centuries after typical Bronze Age weapons - such as the Naue II - had transitioned from bronze to iron. In reality the Bronze Age sword during the Bronze Age was a completely different weapon, and Xiphe were not developed until after the end of the Bronze Age circa 1200 BCE. Researchers think the misidentification of Bronze Age ornaments has created the modern-day myth that the xiphe were ever cast in bronze."

Bronze casting a blade is one thing, bronze casting an entire sword with guard, handle and pommel is on a whole new level though.

nice

That’s perfect, man: I recently met a Hydra and was in need of a new weapon

As for me- illiterate molding and as a result- casting with shells.

I WANT TO BUY $$$? How MUCH $$?? I just want it little bit longer maby 2 half inches more longer

Since these metals get harder by cold forging: Are we sure that ancient examples were only casted? Casting a blank and hardening the blade (or at least the edges) by cold forming would bring much greater results wouldn't it?

was the peining of the edges of the blade to harden the cutting edge?

It's a beautiful thing.

I have always wanted a bronze knife to use. A butcher knife or hunting knife... Do you sell anything? If so what would the cost be?

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The nice thing about bronze weapons like these was that, when they broke, they were much easier to repair than iron weapons because they could just be melted down and then recast. One of the main reasons bronze weapons continued to overlap into the iron age for such a long time.

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Mind if I ask what the hammering the blade portion was for?

Thanks for sharing.

Outstanding work how much if sold

How about a shield?

Beautiful!❤

isnt that metal too soft?

Marvelous.

Dam you, now I want to go get pineapple 😊

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Could you make me one 😜🥹

When orcs in the house the sword shines with blue light

Cast, and not forged swords are weak

Por lo menos para pelar verduras y hacer una ensalada está muy bien jjjjjj

i want one please

Short blade was used for close combat but sword for chopping arms is different made for cutting arms if try attack with spear my dias. Used and this one but from state to state different ones, they didnt write much

Very beautiful. Curious how long it would hold up against a steel sword....

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I want one. Any for sale?

They dug up a 3(I think) thousand year old bronze Chinese sword a while back and they said it was razor sharp.

Amazing❤👍

Одноразовый меч получился, хоть и понтовый

one i have issues with what ur calling forging in truth what ur doing is call casting or Metal Casting forging is where u take a big pice of metal bar thats been heated up and take a hammer and pound to shape not what ur doing