My father was a retired Marine Corps Officer and passed away two years ago. My mother gave me his sword and scabbard. I’d like to make a wall mount where they cross over one another, but as they are curved, I’m having a hard time coming up with a tool path to put them in the mount. Any chance anyone has done this before and can help or has a good idea how to come up with a path? Thanks in advance.
@gdon_2003 Guy has done several military posts.
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I’m guessing you want them crossed something like this…
with mounts something like this…
So, something like this, where the scabbard is close to the wall mount, and the sword is held out to make room for the guard (quillon)…
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Yes, crossed like the top photo. I like your standoffs with the different spacing. Thanks for the responses and ideas.
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I don’t think you need the angles, but you could. I would just quarter round all the protruding edges.
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I made some sword mounts. One is a Marine Corp Association Ceremonial Sword and the other is a WWII Japanese NCO Sword. The thing is to put them up against a wall and measure how far out you need to make the mounts stick out. The attached file is 2 for the non handle end and two for the handle end. The Marine Corp Sword has a large hand guard. The Japanese NCO sword is fairly straight.
Here is the picture of the layout that was requested. The swords are crossed along with other memorabilia.
Here is the CC v7 .c2d file. The material was walnut. The swords will be mounted onto a piece of 1/2" baltic birch. I inserted threaded inserts into the back of the sword holders and drilled a hole in the backing 1/2" baltic birch. The backing board will be covered in red velvet.
Jess_Harper_Sword_hanger.c2d (68 KB)
I have also made gun racks that hold 3 or 4 guns and if you want to mount them horizontally here is the file you can modify. The two sides that hold guns are one piece of oak and they are connected with two strips of oak held together with pocket screws.
3_gun_rack.c2d (96 KB)
4_gun_rack.c2d (80 KB)
The gun rack files were created with CC v6 but I opened them in v7 and saved them.
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Very helpful. Thank you.
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