{"id":1857,"date":"2012-10-17T23:02:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T23:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=1857"},"modified":"2012-10-18T00:04:39","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T00:04:39","slug":"dragonslayer-spike-poniard-and-reliquary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=1857","title":{"rendered":"Dragonslayer Spike Poniard and Reliquary"},"content":{"rendered":"

My latest major project, the Dragonslayer Spike Poniard and Reliquary\u00a0(and The Project From Hell). I guess you can call it finished, but it turned into one of those projects where it became more abandoned than completed – it just kept insisting that I add another element, then another, then another and so forth.\u00a0\u00a0I seem to have a lot of those.<\/p>\n

Anyway, it’s a fantasy integral poniard dagger, made from 1045 carbon steel, 15 inches overall length. The reliquary is fabricated from a brass rail from the bar in the historic Leopold hotel in Bellingham, Wshington (the state, not the puzzle palace), brass rod, boxwood, black walnut, desert ironwood, fossil ivory and steel with engraved runes. On the sculpted raw steel handle are four hand engraved and carved dragons and four Viking-ish helmeted dudes.<\/p>\n

Hope you like it. Thanks for looking!<\/p>\n

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My latest major project, the Dragonslayer Spike Poniard and Reliquary\u00a0(and The Project From Hell). I guess you can call it finished, but it turned into one of those projects where it became more abandoned than completed – it just kept … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[23,5,27],"tags":[9,8,3,7,17,16,4],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6qLAy-tX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2374,"url":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=2374","url_meta":{"origin":1857,"position":0},"title":"Nazgul Holdout Stiletto – Part 1","date":"October 28, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, now for something a bit different. \u00a0I came up with this idea watching the Lord of the Rings movies, and was picturing the head Nazgul (the Witch King) sitting in the bar playing poker with his minions, and wondering what sort of weaponry such a gambler might employ to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Carving"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3084,"url":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=3084","url_meta":{"origin":1857,"position":1},"title":"Dragonsbane Poniard \u2013 Part 10 \u2013 Finished","date":"April 21, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Thank goodness it's finally finished! \u00a0The \"Dragonsbane Poniard\" is engraved and carved 1045 carbon steel, with 24 karat gold inlays, carved copper crossguard, 22 inches overall length, and a huge pain to carve and engrave. 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