Conducting examination of origional swords

[Michael Kay]

All, need your advice

I currently work at the Frontier Heritage Museum on Fort Leavenworth. I have the opportunity to examine many swords and other arms in our collection. What I dont have is the ability to do so and then report on those observations. What criteria do you use when you examine a historical weapon?

I read this article: http://www.thearma.org/spotlight/heymr.htm
and it gives excellent advice on what to look for. What it doesnt offer is how to look for and record those measurements. What examination techniques should be used, how recoreded, etc. Specifically, so that those measurements and observations are useful to a modern smith in making his own creations more historically accurate.

Any ideas?

[LafayetteCCurtis]

Try this:

http://www.oakeshott.org/hsdp.html

[Vincent Le Chevalier]

If you are able to do that sort of manipulation you can look in my article for ways to measure the mass distribution more accurately.

Regards,

[Michael Kay]

Thanks to you both, that is exactly what I was looking for. Ill keep you updated as I get a chance to try this out.

If you are able to do that sort of manipulation you can look in my article for ways to measure the mass distribution more accurately.

Regards,