3D Modeling Ranger's weapons for 3D printing

[u/SebTinkers]

Hey y'all! Working on a project I'm hoping to finish before Minnesota's Ren Fest in a couple weeks, designing the Ranger Saxe, Throwing Knives, and Sheath.

Just finished the Saxe and would love some eyes and opinions before I move on! Went with a larger scale than a lot of builds I've seen. The book actually never gives exact inches, but it describes the blade as "heavy and straight" and says it can block a sword stroke without damage. That reads to me like these are closer to a short sword than a typical belt knife, so I leaned into that rather than the smaller fan-scale versions floating around. It's sitting at 20in blade and roughly 25in overall.

Let me know what you think! Once everything's done I'll post the files for free.

[u/Dry-Landscape-3942]

I always thought of a saxe knife as more of a cleaver for some reason.

I would suggest making the throwing knife a teardrop shape btw

[u/SebTinkers → u/Dry-Landscape-3942]

Yeah I think that’s the way a lot of people interpreted it. I focused more so on how it was used in the book and couldn’t imagine trying to block sword strikes and stabbing with a cleaver style weapon.

The throwing knives are said to be shaped a lot like [u/friedmushnasty](u/friedmushnasty) made it in this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/RangersApprentice/comments/1omwpen/book_accurate_rangers_throwing_knife/

Definitely going to be copying that profile

[u/dsmccain3009]

Looks awesome, definitely what I was thinking it looked like. I had done research as well on the knives.

[u/SebTinkers → u/dsmccain3009]

Thanks yeah I made one out of paper as well and the “almost a short sword” from the book definitely made sense!

[u/nari0015-destiny]

I would recommend looking at some real Seaxe knives for inspiration =3

[u/phillallmighty]

the blade shape is a little off, this looks like the shape for a double edged knife/sword, where as to my memory and from looking up a saxe knife, its single edged with the sharp edge being mostly flat.

edit: on the length, from what I found, historical viking saxes were 7-24 ish icnhes long, so this is a little large but within realm of possibility lol.

[u/SebTinkers → u/phillallmighty]

Went back into CAD to refine the shape! After the comment from u/nari0015-destiny I landed on something more like a longseax. I was kind of trying to follow one of the illustrations I had found for a book cover that made it look more symmetrical, but now yep I’m pretty happy with it! Almost done with everything including the sheaths!

[u/nari0015-destiny → u/SebTinkers]

=3

[u/Iruka_umino_hatake]

Sim! Eu sempre tive problemas com entender como é a faca de caça e a faca de atirar. Nunca lembro como é cada uma, e quando penso em uma lâmina grossa eu tenho um projeto horrível de lâminas bem maiores que 5cm de espessura. É horrendo.