Blade Makers' Challenge - SDC Blade

Originally Posted by Music&Ping

Nice... but an hoplite helmet can either be macedonian (Alexander The Great), athenian or also corinthian ! not spartan only.

If it's for a soldier, the perfect team mate, yeah spartan.

If it's for someone that has a complex of superiority, obviously macedonian hahaha

If it's for a manipulator of the cerebral kind, athenian

If it's for someone who wants to assert his independence, a "free bird", corinthian

Sorry just tickling ya lol, I've been studying ancient greek language and history at University some decades ago so I'm always a bit obsessed by anything greek related .

Nice to know, but I think you have to ask Der which one he is. Probably all of them, depending on the day of the week 😁

I was gonna post the finished blade but I will have to delay it a bit longer. Not trying to create suspense, it's just one final detail that's missing to put it all together.

I think the helmet's name and character is something along the lines of "I'm not gunna tolerate bullcrap"... yup, the anti-BS theme, that ought to be welcome in just about any place.

Could it be the MAGIC HELMET ???

Or could it be this HELMET?

Nah, Der_Echte isn't head banger grunge/heavy metal dude.

Toss this one out for ground breaker...

Of the three, I prolly would be closer to Bugs Bunny.

Originally Posted by Der_Echte

Of the three, I prolly would be closer to Bugs Bunny.

Should I include a carrot in your box along with the blade?

A Tweety Bird sticker might do, but I actually got those, as part of a package I bought for Scoobie Doo Sergey Tsos as he favors Sylvester the Cat's adventures with Tweety Bird.

Ok, here she is finally.

To me the biggest challenge in blade making is to deliver exactly what the customer asked. Sometimes it's not possible to have everything in one blade, but in this case Der's guidelines were very reasonable and compatible, so I tried to stick to them to the best of my abilities. Sometimes the customer has a clear idea of the handle design, but others, like in this case, they leave it up to me. So this is where I left my creativity loose, my self imposed challenge within the challenge. In that regard I'm very happy with the result and was able to give life to my idea.

But I will be totally honest, I'm not entirely happy about the handle shape. It turned out the handle cups were too heavy so, since hollowing of any kind was strictly forbidden, I had to add a light layer on the bottom and remove some on top to see if they would lose a couple of grams. It does feel good, and I still got the 87mm circumference as asked, but it turned out a little flatter than what I initially intended. However regarding what really matters, the blade, and how it plays, I'm really satisfied. Every layer was selected to maximize feel and spin, down to the weight of the core and way that is cut, so I hope Der will like it too.

Composition: Koto / I-C / Ayous / Kiri / Ayous / I-C / Koto
Weight: 104.9g
Thickness: 5.8mm
Freq.: 1380 Hz
Balance: 1.5cm (Very Low)

Awesum pics.

This SPARTA U Joka !!!

Sergio sure got him a story, a story within a story, and some serious skillz. Goon Squad gunna have to look for another target, they are NOT gunna get Segio on this day.

This amount of blades is a tiny amount compared to what TTD member erm has tossed my way just the last 2 years... as fro teh rubbers, I bought a LOT of MX-K and FX-S/FX-P over teh winter to cover this.

A bummer, on the Quarter Pounder Deluxe I hit edge of table and now I gotta reglue a small cm crack...

Hope I never do that with THE SPARTAN

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