The making of a Viking period Pattern-welded sword.

A buddy and I were consuming spare time surfing the net.  Here's some nifty stuff we came across.
Pattern Welding Process Part 1
Pattern Welding Process Part 2

This guy, Gregory Delaunay is a knifefemaker/artist from France and produces some amazing work.  Here's the website: http://www.elfic.fr/index.htm

A very nice set of videos describing the pattern welding process start to finish.  It pays to watch the second video all the way to the end, as the pattern in the blade is utterly beautiful.  The are set to English music, but the text is  french.  There's another link here that accurately described the process in English here.  Well illustrated.

Armour Projects

 So.  I've decided to start some new armour.  And this time I'll actually document the process.  Yeah, I know I said I would do that with the quiver too, but you know how it is.  A good friend of mine named Darcy, (or Stragin for those of you in the SCA) built himself a set of leather Lorica Segmentata.
 This is what Segmentata looks like:

This is what Darcy's leather lorica looks like:

I have my cardboard pattern constructed, and will update along the way.