Anglo-Saxon Seax Blade - damascus

Sax blade made of damask steel in bowie knife shape.

With this typical broken-back sax blade made of real damascus steel, you can make your own Viking sax.

This bowie-knife-shaped sax blade is based on the typical Anglo-Saxon sax blades of the Viking Age, which are often found in English finds from the period 800 to 1100 and were equally common among Anglo-Saxons and Vikings.

The sax was very popular among the Germanic peoples and not only among the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, but was already very widespread among the peoples of the Alemannic, Franks and other Germanic tribes in the preceding centuries. For the sax was not only useful as a "machete" in everyday life, but also as an affordable and handy weapon that could be used well in the shield wall.

The Viking sax blade is forged from two different types of steel into a Damascus steel. The steel used is AISI 4340, a hard tempered steel with a low carbon content, which contains not only nickel but also chrome and molybdenum and thus has a high toughness.

As well as 15N20, a nickel-containing steel with good properties, which creates strong contrasts and bright sections in Damascus steel. When these two steels are forged together in layers to form Damascus steel, the result is a different damascus pattern that makes each piece unmistakably unique.

The hardness of the Sax blade is 58 to 60 HCR Rockwell.

The dimensions are:
Total length 32 cm
Cutting edge 20 cm
Blade back 4 mm
Blade height 2.5 - 3.5 cm
Tang 12 cm