Sax Blade "Jorvik" - carbon steel

Short Viking sax blade in broken-back shape.

With this typical Anglo-Saxon broken-back sax blade in bowie-knife shape, you can easily make a Viking-era sax with a little skill.

The bowie-knife-shaped sax blade "Jorvik" is based on the bowie-knife-shaped sax blades of the Anglo-Saxons, as they appear in large numbers in the Viking Age find material between 800 and 1100 AD.

The so-called skramasax was widespread among many Germanic peoples and not only among the Vikings,and Anglo-Saxons but also in the centuries before among the Alamanni, Franks and other Germanic tribes, for the sax was not only useful as a "machete" in everyday life but also as an affordable and handy weapon well suited for use in the shield wall.

Dimensions of the Anglo-Saxon Sax blade:
Total length 32 cm
Cutting edge 20 cm
Blade back 3.5 mm
Blade height 2.5 - 3.5 cm
Tang 12 cm

The Anglo-Saxon Sax blade is made of 1095 high-carbon steel, a classic among knife steels. This steel is quite tough and grinds very well with a solid life. 1095 is an unalloyed and stainless tool steel with a hardness of 54 HRC Rockwell and a carbon content of 0.90 to 1.03 % with a manganese content of 0.3 to 0.5 %.

A Sax blade made of 1095 carbon steel is indeed hard to break down and a reliable "workhorse" - hard, flexible, unbreakable!
We recommend keeping the sax blade dry and treating it occasionally with a little oil to prevent possible flash rust.