{"id":2971,"date":"2014-03-21T15:09:26","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T15:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=2971"},"modified":"2014-03-21T15:09:26","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T15:09:26","slug":"dragonsbane-poniard-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=2971","title":{"rendered":"Dragonsbane Poniard – Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dragonsbane_Poniard_11\"<\/a>
\nI finally got the poniard to the point I could harden and temper the blade. \u00a0It’s been a long time getting to this point! \u00a0Above, you can see it “in the white” after hardening and tempering, and then a good bit of cleaning up to remove the detritus left behind by the heat treatment.<\/p>\n

\"Dragonsbane_Poniard_12\"<\/a>
\nI also carved in the waist (above the crossguard), refined the copper crossguard shape, and drilled the hole for the retaining rivet. \u00a0While that may not look like much progress <\/p>\n

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, let me assure you it was much more complicated than those few items might indicate!<\/p>\n

\"Dragonsbane_Poniard_13\"<\/a>And a closeup of the crossguard\u00a0area.<\/p>\n

Thanks for looking!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finally got the poniard to the point I could harden and temper the blade. \u00a0It’s been a long time getting to this point! \u00a0Above, you can see it “in the white” after hardening and tempering, and then a good … 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-LV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2945,"url":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=2945","url_meta":{"origin":2971,"position":0},"title":"Dragonsbane Poniard – Part 2","date":"March 20, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I've decided to add a crossguard to the poniard. \u00a0I like the look of copper and dark steel, so I'm going to make the crossguard in copper, from a half inch thick bar. 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