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I recognize the heraldry for Mons Tonitrus... I have no idea what kind of scabbard greatswords used. I found this useful for making awesome scabbards:

I posted an Eastern style bag that you might like here: http://leatherworker.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=4666 Some Viking bag disscusion: http://leatherworker.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=4666 I like this recreation: http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/vie...highlight=purse

I have a pair of these, and I really like them.

I just buy lots of needles and don't worry about it too much.

The metal is pretty thick. The next one I make I'm going to try some repousse techniques on thinner metal to make some sort of designs. The pattern for it worked well and I've gotten good feedback on it, so I want to make another, better version.

Here's a pictre of a leather jerkin (circa 17th century-ish?) that survives in a British museum.

Howdy from the opposite side of Northern AZ!

I also covet Urweg's stuff, but I am not that rich, heh. The belt my girlfriend is putting the pouch on actually has some items from Raymond's. She's using this buckle from them and some pieces I made from copper:

It weighs just under a pound, which is somewhat heavy for something that hangs from a belt. I tried to do a front plate in repousse & chasing, but the copper is a bit too thick to work without a pitch pot and proper tools. I'm going to try to find some thinner copper (maybe 18ga) and go from there. There were actually a bunch of similarly styled purses found all over the Viking-influenced areas. This is one found on the island of Birka in Sweden:

The tarsoly was a highly decorated belt pouch carried by the nobility of the steppes of Eastern Europe. I've been wanting to make a tarsoly for a long time, ever since I was pointed to this link: http://www.tarsolyosok.hu/eng/atarsoly.htm The original pouches are beautiful. I lack the metal skills and tools to do the any justice to the original pieces, so I simply hammered some texture onto thick copper sheet (12ga) and rivetted them on. I wans't too worried about exactly matching a period decoration as there is a lot of variety in on the period pieces but I loosely based the copper plates I added on these pouches: http://www.tarsolyosok.hu/eng/karosi11.htm http://www.tarsolyosok.hu/eng/budapesti.htm It was actually pretty difficult to find any good information about the original construction techniques and I couldn't find any patterns besides the basic shape of the existing pieces, so I ended up spending more time trying to dig up information and agonizing over details than I did actually building the thing. It is 6ish ounce vegtan leather hand stitched with an awl and linen thread covered with numerous pieces of 12ga copper sheet hammered to add texture, remove the overly shiny finish, and match the pieces I put on my girlfriend's belt. Here's mine, tell me what you think.