{"id":57059,"date":"2020-08-31T02:00:36","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T06:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=57059"},"modified":"2025-08-29T19:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T23:55:08","slug":"forging-a-sword-part-four-linishing-and-quillons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/08\/31\/forging-a-sword-part-four-linishing-and-quillons\/","title":{"rendered":"Forging a sword &#8211; part four: linishing and quillons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-39YMyNvy88\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Lindybeige<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 6 Apr 2019<\/p>\n<p>Forging <em>Arnander<\/em>, my English bastard sword. I now start linishing (grinding\/polishing), and make the quillons (crossguard) in a slightly fancy manner.<\/p>\n<p>Support me on Patreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Lindybeige\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Lindybeige<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Had I been a better smith, I could have judged the amount that the quillons would extend by when being hammered out, and there wouldn&#8217;t have been the need to grind away so much metal. Without motorised tools, the medieval smiths would want to minimise grinding.<\/p>\n<p>My tutor: Thom Leworthy.<\/p>\n<p>Music used in this video: &#8220;Siegfried&#8217;s Funeral March&#8221; by Wagner.<\/p>\n<p>Buy the music &#8211; the music played at the end of my videos is now available here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?redir_token=SvWhMC5pOiS_Jfl1E-mGcQ-OSRF8MTU4OTA2NDAxN0AxNTg4OTc3NjE3&#038;v=-39YMyNvy88&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Flindybeige.bandcamp.com%2Ftrack%2Fthe-mandeville-march&#038;event=video_description\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/lindybeige.bandcamp.com\/track&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\nMore weapons and armour videos here: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Lindybeige: a channel of archaeology, ancient and medieval warfare, rants, swing dance, travelogues, evolution, and whatever else occurs to me to make.<\/p>\n<p>\u25bc Follow me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lindybeige\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lindybeige<\/a>  I may have some drivel to contribute to the Twittersphere, plus you get notice of uploads.<\/p>\n<p>website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.LloydianAspects.co.uk\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.LloydianAspects.co.uk<\/a> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot_2020-08-31-Forging-a-sword-\u2013-part-four-linishing-and-quillons.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot_2020-08-31-Forging-a-sword-\u2013-part-four-linishing-and-quillons-480x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-59956\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot_2020-08-31-Forging-a-sword-\u2013-part-four-linishing-and-quillons-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot_2020-08-31-Forging-a-sword-\u2013-part-four-linishing-and-quillons-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot_2020-08-31-Forging-a-sword-\u2013-part-four-linishing-and-quillons-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot_2020-08-31-Forging-a-sword-\u2013-part-four-linishing-and-quillons.png 853w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lindybeige Published 6 Apr 2019 Forging Arnander, my English bastard sword. I now start linishing (grinding\/polishing), and make the quillons (crossguard) in a slightly fancy manner. Support me on Patreon: https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Lindybeige Had I been a better smith, I could have judged the amount that the quillons would extend by when being hammered out, and there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,487,663],"tags":[1299,1140,1398,1459,1369,678],"class_list":["post-57059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-tools","category-weapons","tag-bladedweapons","tag-handtools","tag-lindybeige","tag-metalworking","tag-powertools","tag-swords"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-eQj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57059"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59957,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57059\/revisions\/59957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}