Hello,
I was about 16, when I and friends watched it together highlander series, we loved it, there can be only one, and we started thinking about buying a katana to own a part of history.
I was in college and remember a long coat I worn at this time aha.
I bought a ugly stainless katana, made a duncan hilt from boxwood and brass fittings, and a tanto version with a dragon, carved from ivory from a fleamarket, then I traded these handles for japanese blades made by a very good french artisan, then it became the true japanese sword interest, and left highlander stuff.
After than I become knifemaker, left the japanese stuff a bit to make more folding knives.
And finally I totally left knifemaking because of so traumatic experiment with a as****ole boss and made something else.
But now, it makes about 7 years since I get interest in movie props, and started to make japanese stuff again, especially my kill bill sword replica, between movie prop and real japanese stuff, but also non-movie japanese stuff too.
I would make a real duncan sword, I mean, between the prop, and a real japanese stuff, meaning real blade habaki, real tsuba, with real hand engraving, and of course, in that specific case, real carved material for handle.
I was thinking about the Ramirez sword, but I really don't like the dragon look, loos like shaped from putty directly on a marto "ivory" handle, so I am more thinking about the Duncan sword.
I would try to get pictures of original stuff, to get sure about it, probably not the earlier version, but more the collared one, or colarless one but with a kind of ring on the back part.
it could help to make the rear head on a separate piece, more logical construction, compared to real bone made japanese swords.
Was the original later version just a marto sword?
I was about 16, when I and friends watched it together highlander series, we loved it, there can be only one, and we started thinking about buying a katana to own a part of history.
I was in college and remember a long coat I worn at this time aha.
I bought a ugly stainless katana, made a duncan hilt from boxwood and brass fittings, and a tanto version with a dragon, carved from ivory from a fleamarket, then I traded these handles for japanese blades made by a very good french artisan, then it became the true japanese sword interest, and left highlander stuff.
After than I become knifemaker, left the japanese stuff a bit to make more folding knives.
And finally I totally left knifemaking because of so traumatic experiment with a as****ole boss and made something else.
But now, it makes about 7 years since I get interest in movie props, and started to make japanese stuff again, especially my kill bill sword replica, between movie prop and real japanese stuff, but also non-movie japanese stuff too.
I would make a real duncan sword, I mean, between the prop, and a real japanese stuff, meaning real blade habaki, real tsuba, with real hand engraving, and of course, in that specific case, real carved material for handle.
I was thinking about the Ramirez sword, but I really don't like the dragon look, loos like shaped from putty directly on a marto "ivory" handle, so I am more thinking about the Duncan sword.
I would try to get pictures of original stuff, to get sure about it, probably not the earlier version, but more the collared one, or colarless one but with a kind of ring on the back part.
it could help to make the rear head on a separate piece, more logical construction, compared to real bone made japanese swords.
Was the original later version just a marto sword?