Historical Recreations: The Hank Reinhardt Collection!

Viking Sword from the River Witham - 10th Century A.D.

Viking Sword - Tenth Century A.D. - The original sword was dredged up from the river Witham (shown below).
"This sword is one that I have wanted to copy for years. There have been several attempts, but none have completely satisfactory. Adequate, yes, but not truly satisfying. At least until this one.
Several years ago I had the chance to visit Sweden and Gotland to look at Viking artifacts as well as the remains from the Battle of Visby. One thing that I noticed, but have not encountered in any works on the Viking sword, is that the Swedish swords all seem to be a bit large than those I saw in Norway and Denmark. Of course it could have been just luck that the ones I saw in Sweden were larger, I have no way of knowing. But this sword could easily qualify as a Swedish sword. The blade is 77.8 cm, and is slightly over 6cm wide, and the balance point is about 16 cm. from the grip. This is a true warrior’s sword, the weight is about 3 pounds, but the balance is superb. The cutting power of the sword is quite impressive and I can easily see it being wielded by Skarp-Hedin or Egil Skallagrimson.

.......Hank Reinhardt

The blade of this sword is hand forged from 5160 carbon steel and hand tempered.
The pommel and cross guard is also solid carbon steel with copper diamond inlays, then highly polished.
The handle is wood wrapped in leather. Sword also includes a wood scabbard wrapped in leather with steel accents at throat and tip.

This sword features polished steel pommel and cross guard with Copper Diamonds. Wood handle wrapped in lather. Full wide tang that is peened over top of the pommel.

 

The sword is hand forged from a high carbon steel using a tempering method designed by Hank. The steel guard and pommel are beautifully formed following Ewart Oakeshott's three dimensional drawings, and produced in collaboration with Hank Reinhardt, Gen2, and Last Legend Blades, from the Ewart Oakeshott drawing.

Sword is sold complete with wood scabbard that's wrapped in leather with steel accents.

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