Pelnar Handwerk

Finally finished something.

Quite some time ago we promised our friend and fencing coach a scabbard for his Albion Crecy but never got around to doing it.
Now we just found out he's moving across the country and we decided we couldn't let the job go undone forever. So with the deadline of about 3 days we rushed and got this knocked out.
Bit of a challenge to get the color matched to the hilt but I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out.

Little something we've been tinkering around with.
Still needs a chape made and then some proper pictures taken

Having made only one full scabbard before this project, It was a pleasure having swords of this quality in my possession for the short time i did, and this was a great learning experience. moving forward i'll be focusing much more on the decorative details that i didn't have the time to put into this project, and improving on the little bits that i know could be done better and faster with experience.

it's not easy finding surviving examples of medieval scabbards, and it seems that most i've seen belonged to knights or royalty, found in burial tombs and seeming much fancier than any common citizen would have carried in my opinion. so, much of my design is drawn from other modern scabbard makers who i assume have done their homework better than I. because of this, i readily apologize if any techniques used were original ideas from the modern makers rather than historical details and i'll give credit if brought up.

Mike Edelson for one, shared his technique that i used for forming the wood cores, and it worked brilliantly. i highly recommend looking into it if you want to try scabbard making