Weapons - Blog Posts
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July 21, 2019 - August 2, 2019
Repost of a repost
insta notes:
back to the past 🥸🏃♂️
Morgan man - **find piece name from email/doc**
repost from old old insta acc. Lost the likes i got from gun owner's accounts 😩 Still cant look at the face for too long, but i like the piece as a whole Funny that it was up in QE for ~a year
Back before I had a decent watercolor set, when the watercolors could forever be 100% reactivated to achieve smooth gradients
Watercolour and pencil on watercolour paper
From beginning to end.
Prop page
Sorry I haven't posted in a while, I've been busy planning and going to weddings, moving into a new place, raising a puppy and coming up with a new outlet for my work. https://www.patreon.com/jlinneprops That's a link to my patreon page. It's a place where I give rewards for certain levels a person can reach for helping to support my art. Every month I do a raffle for my patrons and the winner gets their own prop replica! Right now I'm building an axe from lord of the rings for a guy in Arizona, so check it out and win some cool shit!
Take a look at my new website purely for my prop/artsy stuff. Will hopefully keep me from constantly posting on my tumblr 😜 http://936props.wix.com/home
First Forge
Now that Christmas is officially over I can post my first attempt at forging! Every Christmas each member of my family has to make a gift from scratch for someone. This year I decided to be ambitious and make a knife for my dad. Here's some step by step photos. I'll upload the final ones soon :)
HELLO FOLLOWERS!
what's up everyone!
I've never tried this through Tumblr but figured it was worth a shot. My mini workshop is almost ready to see some action so I'm taking orders! I've already got 4 projects lined up but if anyone needs something made for Halloween, ComicCon, holiday gifts, or just a cool thing to hang on your wall let me know asap!
Orders may include but are not limited to the following awesome items- Blunderbuss Vibranium shields Sting Blue Spirit mask Equalist glove Mjolnir
ps. I'll be happy to ship items anywhere in the continental US of A.
Early Medieval pattern-welded Sickle
Reconstruction by Thorkil
The sickle was based on an antler sickle case found in Stargard Szczecinski, West Pomerania (Poland). The original was richly decorated with geometrical motives, popular at that time. Thorkil’s version is a very faithful reconstruction of it, with all circles, dots, triangles and lines made on natural deer antler.
The decoration was hand engraved, then coloured with natural dark dye for a contrast and stronger effect. The sickle blade’s is pattern-welded (damascus) steel. It was hand forged (in charcoal fire) of 20 twisted layers. The cutting edge was forge-welded to pattern-welded part.
Source: Copyright © 2017 Thorkil
Yatagan Sword from the Court of Süleyman the Magnificent (reigned 1520–66)
Dated: circa 1525–30
Sword maker: Workshop of Ahmed Tekelü (possibly Iranian, active Istanbul, ca. 1520–30)
Geography: Istanbul
Culture: Ottoman, Istanbul
Medium: steel, gold, ivory (walrus), silver, turquoise, pearls, rubies
Measurements: overall length 23 3/8 inches (59.3 cm); blade length 18 3/8 inches (46.7 cm); weight 1 lb. 8 oz. (691 g)
Exquisite workmanship and lavish use of precious materials distinguish this sword as a princely weapon and exemplifies the opulence and refinement of Ottoman luxury arts. Almost identical to a yatagan (now in the Topkapi Palace, Istanbul) made in 1526–27 by the court jeweller Ahmed Tekel, for the Ottoman sultan Süleyman the Magnificent (r. 1520–66), this sword was undoubtedly made in the same imperial workshop.
The gold incrustation on the blade depicts a combat between a dragon and a phoenix against a background of foliage scrolls. These figures, like the gold-inlaid cloud bands and foliage scrolls on the ivory grips, are Chinese in inspiration, and were probably introduced into Ottoman art through contacts with Persia.
This sword is one of the earliest known yatagans, distinctly Turkish weapons characterised by a double-curved blade and a hilt without a guard. Yatagans were commonplace in Turkey and the Balkans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and served as sidearms for the elite troops known as Janissaries.
Source: Copyright © 2016 Metropolitan Museum of Art
Partisan Carried by the Bodyguard of Louis XIV (1638–1715, reigned from 1643)
Dated: circa 1678–1709
Sword cutler: inscription probably refers to Bonaventure Ravoisie (French, Paris, recorded 1678–1709)
Culture: French, Paris
Medium: steel, gold, wood, textile
Measurements: overall length 94 1/8 inches (239 cm); length of head 22 9/16 inches (57.3 cm); width of head 6 ½ inches (16.5 cm)
Inscription: decoration on this partisan features a sunburst surmounted by Louis XIV’s motto, NEC PLURIBUS IMPAR (Not equaled by many); inscribed along the curved lower edge on both sides of the blade: RAVOISIE FOVRBISSEVR DV ROY A PARIS
Provenance: Ex coll.: de Dino
This partisan, along with two like it also in the Metropolitan Museum’s collection (acc. nos. 14.25.454, 04.3.64), are thought to have been carried by the Gardes de la Manche (literally, “guards of the sleeve,” indicating their close proximity to the king), an elite unit of the bodyguard of Louis XIV.
This example (along with 04.3.64) bears the king’ motto and sunburst above the crowned arms of France and Navarre, which are encircled by the collars of the royal orders of the Holy Spirit and Saint Michael. It is inscribed RAVOISIE FOVRBISSEVR DV ROY A PARIS, probably referring to Bonaventure Ravoisie, a royal cutler recorded between 1678 and 1709.
The other partisan (14.25.454) is from a small group designed by Jean Bérain the Elder (1637–1711) for the marriage of Louis’s niece Marie-Louise d'rléans to Carlos II of Spain in 1679. The decoration features a sunburst surmounted by the king’s motto, ‘NEC PLURIBUS IMPAR’ (’not equalled by many’). Beneath, the sun god Apollo is being crowned with laurel by the winged figure of Fame. The sunburst and Apollo were favourite symbols of Louis XIV, the self-styled Sun King.
Source: Copyright © 2016 The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Silver Dagger
Dated: 20th century
Culture: probably Russian
Medium: silver, enamel, gilding
The dagger’s blade features a blue enamel and gilt and Cyrillic “KF” marks with Russian silver stamps.
Source: Copyright © 2016 Jones & Horan Auction Team
Paper Knives
Dated: Meiji Period (1868-1912)
Culture: Japanese
Measurements: overall length 27.5 - 34 cm
Both knives have brass blades engraved with floral motifs with grips featuring high -and bas-relieved effigy of birds.
Source: Copyright © 2016 Czerny’s International Auction House S.R.L.
"We are the Crystal Gems. We’ll always save the day!”
friend mentioned weapons grade plutonium and I freaked the fuck out until she told me she meant like bombs, but I was imagining fucking. Fucking. Plutonium swords or some shit. Plutonium tipped arrows. Plutonium daggers