May I present: ABSCALIBUR

The legend of Abscalibur dates back nearly three weeks. A simpler time, when a buddy and I, giddy from a long day of slaying dragons and other sea creatures, bemoaned our inability to take hard-to-reach monster abalone hiding in the back of caves. "Sure, there are 'ab swords,' " we said to each other as we sauntered down California's Royal Road 101 through Salinas, as the missionaries did hundreds of years before us. "But those are merely cut down rusty leaf springs.... surely there is a better way....."

"Well" I said, as I lowered my voice, "what if there was an abalone sword THAT WAS ACTUALLY A SWORD!"

The rest of the journey flew by as we discussed various designs, engravings, enchantments, curses, and, er, regulations.......  In the following days and weeks I spoke with machinists, engineers, patent attorneys, learned basic CAD, dusted off static engineering textbooks, and bought a bunch of stuff online. I pulled my head up from the computer, and we had a design!

35 3/4 inches long, 1 1/2 inches wide, and 1/4 inch thick. With a handle that DOUBLES AS A 7" GAUGE.

Friday came, and I paid a visit to my local metallurgist (read, metals supplier). We discussed the project, and settled on 316L marine grade stainless steel, with all sorts of fancy metals like chromium, nickel, and molybdenum. I also purchased some Blue Demon 316L welding electrodes to match, but mostly for the name.

Saturday disappeared in a whirlwind of cutting, grinding, polishing, and throwing out flap disks like they were going out of style. The Lord's Day was spent in modest garb, head bowed and covered, with hands together, prostrating myself before the benevolent Lincoln Electric ARC welder. When the smoke cleared, I had before me the one, the only (well, I made a few..), ABSCALIBUR.







I made a total of four with the handles, and two are already spoken for. I also have three that don't have the hand guard and pommel, with the paracord wrap.

$80 for a plain ab sword.
$120 for ABSCALIBUR

Awesome maybe one could magically appear at PIF this yr..........

Love the narrative!!!

Bloodbath could've used One of those baby's at GS8 30 dive's for a 11" beauty!!! But maybe that would of took his determination

Won't need a weightbelt if you're running with that thing!   

Cool project, Jeremy.   

Awesome maybe one could magically appear at PIF this yr..........

Love the narrative!!!

Bloodbath could've used One of those baby's at GS8 30 dive's for a 11" beauty!!! But maybe that would of took his determination

No problem donating one to the cause once I get out of the red on this. Stainless flat bar ain't cheap!

Fantastic post and a very cool bar Jeremy.  I think I may start diving again just so I can buy one 

Awesome. Pm me for ss material if you need some

Fantastic post and a very cool bar Jeremy.  I think I may start diving again just so I can buy one 

+1!!!

Except for the start diving again part...

Art...what's up dude?!? Get your butt down here and let's go chase some fishies!! I got some good shallow areas we can go explore for you and Angle. 

 

 

Sincerely,

Jim

Thanks gents! Cutting out the slots in the hand guard with a drill press, hack saw, and files was the worst part. I didn't realize that my cousin has a milling machine in his shop until I was welding them together.....  If that's in working order, and I can use it, I'll definitely drop the price.

Here are a few more photos:

KABTANA




All the swords before they start going out the door today.




And a prototype in the welding jig (with invisible milling machine in the background)

Looks like you are ready to slay abzilla with that 

Nice swords!

The first two pictures show how beautiful that seasoned wood looks.  Is that apple?    If you want that wood piled removed so as to not muddle up future pics of abscaliber, I'd be happy to come take the wood. 

BTW, good hunting with those swords, ab ninja.

Nate

The wood is black walnut. A couple years old right now, and we have heaps of it because we didn't get around to grafting on the English walnut until the trees were at least 10 years old.

Definitely use a stretch cord when attaching this to your wrist. If it get wedged into something you want to be able to pull free. Dead serious about this.

Not meant to attach to the wrist at all. The cord is for attaching to a float line.

People liked these so much that I made a few more over the weekend. Currently have three Abscalibur and two of the plain ab bars.