Long Seax Blade - Carbon Steel

Germanic seax blade based on historical models.

With a little skill, you can easily make your own seax with this Alamannic-Frankish sax blade.

The Germanic seax blade is based on an original find from the Alemannic and Frankish row grave field of Pleidelsheim.

Similarly shaped seax blades are also known from the excavations at Valsgärde in Sweden and other sites from the Vendel period, which directly preceded the Viking Age.

The seax was widespread not only among the Alemannic, but also among other Germanic tribes such as the Franks and Anglo-Saxons as an important part of their personal equipment and was still used into the Viking Age.

The Germanic sax was not only a "machete" for daily work in house and yard, but also an affordable and handy weapon and good to use in the shield wall.

Dimensions of the sax blade:
Total length 47 cm
Cutting edge 33 cm
Blade back 4 mm
blade-height 3,5 cm
Tang 14 cm

The Germanic 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.