Ferh-eih Historical Blades

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Ferh-eih Historical Blades

Northern Italian bladesmith focused on replicating archaeological finds or blades inspired to originals. Open to commisions.

Mainly focused on the Early Middle Ages and on the Langobard and Merovingian period, but I'm open to work on other epochs too.

23/06/2022

Just out of the workshop a nimble and elegant raetic/alpine celtic javelin head, inspired to originals from Rovereto (Northern Italy). The iron cladding turned out beautifully and very intricate.
As just anticipated, it features a laminated construction, with wrought iron as outer layer and 2 thin layers of 19th century medium carbon steel welded together as edge. Two grooves are filed in the socket, while some of the bigger originals show six decorative elements of the same kind. The blade is quite narrow with a clean spine in the middle, the thickness is about 5mm. The cutting edge is blunt due to legislation.
(yeah, greyish limestone is not the most spot-on background to photograph steel objects, but it seemed the only place where the wrought actually popped up in picture)

01/06/2022

A 37cm Raetic pilum just finished forging! Started as a 150x18mm square stock. Based on originals found in Trentino (Italy), probably imitations of the iconic Roman pilum, the trusted legionaire javelin.
Raeti were a people that lived the Alpine regions of Tyrol and Northern Italy that fought against Augustus' army, but were defeated and subjugated in the I century b.C.
More info when it will be finished

01/06/2022

Another interpretation of the knife from the grave 9 from Arsago Seprio, quite an appreciated designs it sems. As well as the precedent reproductions it has a 1070 steel core with a wrought iron cladding, a walnut handle and a mild steel bolster with a strong tapering of the handle towards the bolster conjunction. The handle cross section has well-marked and slim tear-drop profile as some originals found in Scandinavia. The bolster as usual imitates several originals excavated in langobard-era contexts.

26/05/2022

A knife that I finished some months ago. Not early, but late medieval this round. It's an interpretation of one of the kitchen knives depicted on the "Last Supper" fresco from Saint Apollinaire church of Arco, in Trentino, close to the northern shores of the Lake Garda. The blade is forged from spring steel, the handle is nice looking local walnut and the backplate is mild steel.

21/05/2022

Replica of the preitalic, langobard age, kurzsax from the grave 177 of the necropolis of Kranj in Slovenia, it can be dated to the mid 6th century AD. The blade is 18cm long, 2,7cm wide and 5mm thick and can be barely included into the mainstream consideration of seax regarding the size, even though some seaxes from Kranj are even smaller. As usual it features a core of 1070 steel in a lovely iron jacket and a narrow tang. I'm not gonna make a handle for this since the customer will do it by himself.

21/05/2022

Here we have a merovingian knife, which can be dated from the 7th to 8th century and is based on various originals from merovingian swiss graveyards (as showed in the second picture), features a straight cutting edge and a strong drop point. It is laminated, with a core of 1070 steel and wrought iron on the sides, which creates a nice and wavy transition between jacket and core, and I'm quite satisfied about this. As for the previous knives, the handle is ash, and is long 115mm, while the blade is 85mm.
This typology seems to be the easiest to forge and grind so far and usually lacks of any kind of decoration, like grooves or fullers.
Probably not the most intriguing knife shape, but surely historically accurate and perfect for late-Merovingian reenactment or living history.

21/05/2022

There we are with another langobard age knife finished! That's a fancy one, not a replica but inspired to the knife from the grave 9 of Arsago Seprio, with a wider blade and a nice walnut handle that follows the geometry of the hexagonal/almost pentagonal bolster, which imitates some found on actual seaxes. The handle widens evenly from the bolster to the back. The blade construction as always is wrought on the sides and the spine and 1070 steel as cutting edge.
Overall I'm quite satisfied by the result, hope the customer will enjoy it!

20/05/2022

Here a langobard-age, pre-italic kurzsax. It's inspired to some originals found in the necropolis of Kranj in Slovenia, dating to the middle 6th century. It's made of a stripe of 1070 steel welded into a solid piece of wrought iron showing some lovely curves. It's quite short, with an overall length of about 30cm, the originals instead are just a pair of centimeters longer. The handle material is far from historically accurate, made of black locust and walnut, just to vary from the usual ash.

19/05/2022

My first post features a langobard-age knife, more specifically the replica/interpretation of the knife from the grave 9 of Arsago Seprio necropolis, in Northwestern Lombardy.
This piece features a laminated construction, with wrought iron at the sides and 1070 steel in the middle. The bolster is wrought as well, just more refined, and the handle is beautiful local walnut, cutted down a pair of years ago.
On all my previous laminated knives I have polished equally iron and steel, but on this one I wanted to take a more aesthetically pleasing look, sanding only the steel part.
Since I based this solely on the archaeological drawings and report, I am still not sure about how the real bolster would have looked, so I took inspiration from some seaxes' bolsters from the same time period and area to design it. The overall length is about 22cm, with a 10cm blade with a sturdy 5mm spine at the shoulder, the handle is 12cm.

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