Post by paranger on Oct 21, 2020 7:13:55 GMT -7
I have recently begun collaborating with a bladesmith in CO in order to produce a more accurate French boucheron. These two are the initial results of those efforts.
The top one is a reproduction of an archeological example of a "type A" (curved spine) blade excavated at the site of a French camp during the 1757 siege of Fort William Henry, including the Fleur de Lis cutler's mark.
The other is a dimensionally similar "type C" (4 degree clip point) recreated from a diagram in Gladysz and Hamilton's benchmark article on boucherons in the Journal of the Early Americas, with an approximation of the cutler's mark of Barthelemy Doron, from a 1737 lead tablet used to record the marks of the St. Etienne cutler's guild. His marks show up on several archeological examples from the Lake Champlain area, such as those in the Fort Ticonderoga museum's collection.
e63 amg 0 60
Both have pc yellow boxwood handles, 2x 1/8" steel pins set one pouce (1 1/16") apart, etc, and are forged from 1/8" O-1 tool steel.
The top one is a reproduction of an archeological example of a "type A" (curved spine) blade excavated at the site of a French camp during the 1757 siege of Fort William Henry, including the Fleur de Lis cutler's mark.
The other is a dimensionally similar "type C" (4 degree clip point) recreated from a diagram in Gladysz and Hamilton's benchmark article on boucherons in the Journal of the Early Americas, with an approximation of the cutler's mark of Barthelemy Doron, from a 1737 lead tablet used to record the marks of the St. Etienne cutler's guild. His marks show up on several archeological examples from the Lake Champlain area, such as those in the Fort Ticonderoga museum's collection.
e63 amg 0 60
Both have pc yellow boxwood handles, 2x 1/8" steel pins set one pouce (1 1/16") apart, etc, and are forged from 1/8" O-1 tool steel.
