The axe that killed Conan's father from the movie Conan the Barbarian hand-forged from carbon steel

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The Pict ax that killed Conan's father (William Smith) - "Conan the Barbarian" 1982. Although it doesn't say anywhere that it is explicitly of Pictish origin, the design definitely suggests that if you know the stories.

When I forge weapons for Conan, they usually come from my imagination; the ideas arise when I read the books and stories.
Here, however, I based myself on an original film prop!
This film ax was made of brass, with a retractable tip. This slid back into the hollow blade and locked there. A small piece of lace remained on the outside. The actor had a wooden board under his clothes on his back and when the ax was hit in his back, the short piece of tip was able to penetrate the wooden board and the ax got stuck. However, since most of it disappeared into the blade, it appeared as if two-thirds of the ax was stuck in his back.
Well, of course I wanted to make a fully functional version of this axe. Therefore it is made of carbon steel. This also fits into the fictional story. Even though Howard's Picts are a kind of Stone Age culture, they still have the ability to make simple iron and steel weapons. Simple, chunky axes, without a shaft hole, more reminiscent of orc weapons, like this one. Not the quality of the blacksmithing art of the Aquilonians, or other Hyborian cultures, but absolutely deadly!
I forged two parts for my leaf. A T-shaped part that forms the neck of the ax and the wedge-shaped cheeks and the actual blade that is inserted into this T. The whole thing was then fire welded into a single piece.
The shaft is made of oak. The weak point here is the clamping of the ax blade, because due to the higher weight of the head, completely different forces act here than if it were made of flint or non-ferrous metal, for example. Although it is a wallhanger, I still wanted the ax to be functional. I therefore cut the recording in the cross section of the head in order to keep the play as low as possible. In addition, it is cold-riveted under the leather with rivets made of wrought bronze and glued with epoxy resin. The wood has only been oiled several times. The last picture shows the original film weapon and you can also see the retractable tip.

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