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I've been blessed with the ability to examine a lot of armor first hand, with fellow armorers, and we have the same experience: there's an awful lot of original armor out there that you simply couldn't sell today because stuff doesn't line up or is asymmetrical. I love looking at it totally being able to tell that 500 years ago this guy thought to himself "Screw it, I'm hungry and I've been doing this for 9 hours and nobody's ever even going to notice this". Well I did, 500 years later. :D
This video was a treat indeed! I have an Oakeshott type XIV replica from Windlass (I know, it is all I could afford) and I feel that this style of sword is underappreciated / misunderstood. I have heard it described as clunky or unwieldy, however I found with time/ practice it's simplicity and effectiveness is quite pronounced, of course we can't forget that this weapon was often used with a buckler which some people do not realise. Thank you for a close look at one of Oakeshott's famous blades. Your videos are most informative and a sheer pleasure to watch.
Hide glue! I think I'm going to try that to fix some rattling issues. Thanks to Roland, Thrand, and the Oakeshott Institute guys for this excellent video.
It's amazing what weight distribution does. I have the Hakon Viking reenactment sword from Kult of Athena. It weighs 2 pounds and 14 ounces and has a point of balance 5 inches from the guard and a 28 inch blade. Its basically your normal thick edged reenactment sword. Same weight as the original, but completely different sword.
The first thing I notice is the crossguard is quite wide! I think the general "rule" (or rather tendency? Not a rule..) with longswords is that the crossguard is roughly as wide as the grip is long. I don't know if that generally applies to single handed swords. Here the crossguard looks much wider than the grip is long. Those fullers are goooorgeous. Also...first!
Actually, the rules for sword proportions appear to be way more complex. Peter Johnsson has presented his hypothesis on medieval sword design in the 2016 exhibition and catalogue "The Sword - Form & Thought". Very recommendable: ua-cam.com/video/FiSoLMx3v0I/v-deo.html Plus, there are also longswords, some of which I have examined myself, who have comparably short crossguards: facebook.com/266934476773420/photos/a.407448459388687.1073741885.266934476773420/975559985910862/?type=3&theater
There are also Longswords and One handed swords with Katzbalger hilts: www.pinterest.com/pin/536772849318595026/ How would these be used? Would they be used differently compared to regular cross-hilted swords? Does this indicate that variety of different martial schools of Europe preferred different fighting philosophies? I would love to hear your thoughts on this.
Oh my...I mean obviously there were countless ways of fighting with a sword. Countless different ideas, countless different weapons, different people, different contexts, perhaps what you think of as different "philosophies". We already have a lot of it and that's *only* what a pretty small handful of people decided to write down / document. There were vastly more people using swords than just Fiore / Ringeck / whatever. Who the hell knows, honestly?
Is it possible that the hollow pommels got filled with a material of different weight, and by that change the handling characteristics so as to adapt to the preference of the owner of the sword? I read somewhere that for the making of swords in Europe you had two distinct professions involved, first there was the swordsmith that manufactered the raw blade, and then it would go to another highly specialised craftsman that in German is called "Schwertfeger", which roughly translates as "Swordpolisher", that would polish and sharpen the blades and do all the montage of putting on crossguard and all the other elements of the handle that make it into a fully functioning weapon. It also was said in that same article, that the "Schwertfeger" trade were the predecessor of modern days "Messerschmied". As many crafts have guilds to this day, some with there own archives, maybe discoveries about details on the process of swordmaking to be made there. Of course this is just the idea of a layman, no offense to the masters! At last, I'd like to ask you the following, as a Geman you certainly know the story of "Wieland der Schmied", in which is described a rather unique method of obtaining the perfect material to make his masterpiece, the sword "Mimung". Has anyone tried to replicate that process? Since childhood the "Deutsche Sagen und Heldengeschichten" have always been among my favorites. I never imagined and am much exited that we now have HEMA trying to revive the swordmanship of our forefathers. Its a pity we don't have a manual by Hildebrand, the swordmaster of Dietrich!
The history that I am familiar with shows an evolution of the trades. Meaning that in the 10th century you had blacksmiths that were more generalists that would do everything beyond the simplest of nail and bar making done by apprentices. Past that, they shod horses, made swords, fitted axes, made plows, and hammers for all manner of trades. With increased urbanization came specialty where a sword master only forged and heat treated blades; passing the work on to the polishers and fitters. From Roman times and before Swordsmith was a master of metal, wood, and leather; making more complete products individually from start to finish. With modernity and specialization associated with population density and the growth of guild education systems the proverb, "Be a jack (Journeyman) of all trades and a Master of one." applies to a more segmented, industrial factory approach to the process. My thoughts, anyway.
Thank you for this extensive post. Dr Stefan Mäder has looked into sources on historical sword-making a lot. I recommend this highly interesting book of his, which I am sure you are going to enjoy. Here you can see the book's table of content: www.gbv.de/dms/tlda/PPN_60451736X.pdf
Thank you so much for this thorough, insightful content. Will Check out the book and I've seen the lecture, as I get notifications from you and Thrand. I am a journeyman Smith. Hope to be a Bladesmith someday soon.
Does the pommel disc being off its' centerline like that enhance or detract from the grip, and if it does help, does that give us information that it was intended for a right-handed or a left-handed user?
I have made this observation on numerous original swords. The twist is usually counter-clockwise and c. 4° - 6°. Very few swords sport the same pommel twist to the other direction. This appears to be intentional to optimize a sword for either right-handed or left-handed use. It becomes obvious when you pick up such a sword: facebook.com/266934476773420/photos/a.344361789030688.1073741867.266934476773420/1168893506577508/?type=3 I have up-loaded two videos for my patrons that show and explain this effect with two original swords from the 9th and 11th century: www.patreon.com/posts/ingenious-10th-14498101 www.patreon.com/posts/off-center-on-15671471
If you wanted to show a fuller that shallow in a photo or video you might be able to place the edge of a ruler on it so that it shows the gap made by the fuller. I hope that works.
Does a ham or salmon alveolar carving knife count ? Concavities on the blade acts as air pockets so the blade cut better. Also a good soil knife, or a spade, also works like that, having even a slight concavity in the center mass prevent it from sticking into heavy soil. Otherwise, we'll have to ask the last people that still burry swords into a living animal, namely, the Spanish toreros. They use a sword called an estoque, that features one or more deep grooves that goes up to the point. It is not for making the blade lighter, or stiffer, or pretty, or more agile (there is no swordplay involved, it's a bull). On the contrary. A torero estoque is even weighted with a lead pommel, so it's not even designed for fencing. A real estoque (estoca de verdad) made in Valencia, Spain, features one, two or even three (even four) grooves for the most expensive ones. It is because if we burry a flat sword into a bull, the sword just plugs the wound. Toreros have to have a sword with a large groove so that air can flow into the wound. These are not speculations. In case of a media estocada, it is a puncture into an large blood vessel. In the case of an estocada, it is a puncture into the heart. Air bubble means embolism, and so instant death when it reaches the brain. In case of panic against extremly large and clever bull, a torero can also use the strike called golletazo, now the sword groove is essential to cause instant death with this 'lazy' strike. Mammals lungs are envelopped in a double layer membrane that allow them to slide freely against the ribcage. Like a fist pushed into a baloon, or having pair of sockets upon another pair of sockets, there's less friction. With a thrust, when the blade is fullered up to the point or concave, a groove on the blade will act as an air admittance when the blade is burried into a wound. This means aggravated pneumothorax intensity and embolism. Puncturing that double membrane (aka pleural cavity) with a blade that's featuring a gutter means that the lungs collapse way faster because the double layer membrane fills even more rapidly with fluids and air at each breath. That's almost instant knock out with minimal force applied. That's a huge target area for immediate neutralization that's unlocked with this type of feature on the blade.
I forgot to add - great video, and great sword! I wish I could have handled it. How many original swords are there (from, let's say, arbitrarily, before 1400) in similarly good condition?
Oh, I cannot tell you. A few hundred? Nobody would know, as many collections and museums are unaware of their full inventories. And then there is the private market … ! What you see in books are usually the same swords over and over again, simply because authors copy from others authors.
Wow! Very interesting. Huge peen block, four narrow fullers, incredible! Pommel wasn't perfectly straight. I wonder if it was originally slightly offset or if that happened sometime in the last 800 years. It's extremely large, too.
In fact, many pommels on original swords are slightly twisted. Surprisingly, all at more or less the same angulation. There is a hypothesis by sword maker Christopher Gilch that this was actually intentional: When striking a diagonal blow, say from your right shoulder, then the further your arm crosses your torso, the more the hand (and thus the blade) starts to be twisted in a clockwise orientation as the strike progresses. This is a very minute move, but in cutting it often times results in a wavy cutting plane: the cut is not straight but more like a very, very shallow u-shape, which makes your action less effective. In order to prevent this, you have to sightly turn your wrist while striking your blow. Needless to say, that this requires expert fine motor skills and a lot of practice. Nothing wrong with practice, but if the orientation of the pommel was slightly offset for the sword hilt to perfectly accommodate the hand at the *end* of your strike, then the tool facilitates the action. Which I am sure swordmen would have certainly found out in those 4000 years of sword use. Here is a Viking sword with the same feature: facebook.com/266934476773420/photos/a.549286731871525.1073741918.266934476773420/676867112446819/?type=3&theater
Since the blade is pitted and has lost some mass, I expect the original point of balance would have been a couple/few inches farther from the pommel than what it is today. What was the point like, originally? It's pretty round today, but it looks deteriorated. If it was much longer, maybe add another inch to the point of balance.
I would wager the difference is more like a quarter, maybe 3/8 inch. There is just a little pea sized chunk out at the tip, and the very tip may have lost an 1/8" or 2mm. With a nice, gradual distal taper, the even distribution of lost steel on the blade (and some on the pommel) should not affect balance point much at all.
+Christopher Neely - IDK, consider the leverage. Even a few grams of steel on the blade or out at the point would move the center quite a bit. Hmm. I looked again, and the point is more intact than I thought. But there's pitting all over the blade. Much more so than in the pommel and guard - which also have less moment arm, so less effect per gram. (The grip might be missing some mass too, but probably not too much.) So Idk how to estimate it, maybe your estimate is better then mine. (I have no relevant knowledge or experience...) Plus, I would think it would make for a better cutting sword, if the center of mass was farther out - and from the point and the overall shape, I kinda assume it's mostly a cutting sword. So if it was a cutter. And if it wasn't farther out, maybe even 4-5 inches worth - maybe it should have been?
This is off topic from the video, but how effective is I.33 in different contexts such as a street fight with multiple people or against different weapons such as a longsword?
I.33 does not deal with any of these contexts. It is a treatise that exclusively focuses on duelling with sword & buckler. And, yes, this is very off-topic indeed.
Late 13 century, right? XIV.3? It is AWESOME! Having a really old sword (or thing) before your eyes is... strange. I find difficult to realize that is really antique. °_°
Correct, this would be my guess, too: Late 13th c, type XIV. Yes, it definitely is a privilege and an exciting experience to handle original swords. If you enjoy this kind of video, you may care to note that supporters of my work ($3+ patrons) have constant access to exclusive video presentations of original historical weapons: www.patreon.com/Dimicator/posts?rewardTier=300
Possibly, but I have seen at least one example where this was apparently not the case, and both tang and peening block appear to have been shortened. As Craig said, there never was only one way to do it, plus, the expertise of craftsmen carrying out modifications is likely to have been inconsistent.
Keeping your sword clean and dry goes a long way. Here is some more information: facebook.com/pg/Dimicator-266934476773420/photos/?tab=album&album_id=302204576579743
Sogenannte Schweissverbundstähle, gemeinhin und etwas unscharf als Damast bezeichnet, wurden bei *allen* Schmiedeerzeugnissen bis zur Industralisierung im 19. Jahrhundert produziert.
they invite thrand to Arms and Armor yet thrand uses Windlass and deepeeka quality swords in his videos.... atleast give him an actual sword to use for his videos
Roland plays guitar? His hands look like he does and his intro is a bit of a metal music so, I would fucking like to c him playin a guitar. Or a medieval kind of :P
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I've been blessed with the ability to examine a lot of armor first hand, with fellow armorers, and we have the same experience: there's an awful lot of original armor out there that you simply couldn't sell today because stuff doesn't line up or is asymmetrical. I love looking at it totally being able to tell that 500 years ago this guy thought to himself "Screw it, I'm hungry and I've been doing this for 9 hours and nobody's ever even going to notice this". Well I did, 500 years later. :D
This video was a treat indeed! I have an Oakeshott type XIV replica from Windlass (I know, it is all I could afford) and I feel that this style of sword is underappreciated / misunderstood. I have heard it described as clunky or unwieldy, however I found with time/ practice it's simplicity and effectiveness is quite pronounced, of course we can't forget that this weapon was often used with a buckler which some people do not realise. Thank you for a close look at one of Oakeshott's famous blades. Your videos are most informative and a sheer pleasure to watch.
Wide bladed swords have always resonated with me. My personal favourite is the Type 18 c
Thank you Roland for sharing this I really appreciate it.
Will the tracing be available to patreons ?
It is already available for top patrons (like numerous other such drawings of originals I examined): www.patreon.com/posts/full-scale-scan-12760646
Hide glue! I think I'm going to try that to fix some rattling issues.
Thanks to Roland, Thrand, and the Oakeshott Institute guys for this excellent video.
You are most welcome. Feel free to share your insights with using glue to fix your crossguard, if you please. Good luck.
love the explanation at 14:46. So fascinating. There should be a "love" on YT rather than just a like button.
Hahaha. Happy you enjoyed it. As the channel host, I can at least give *your* comment a love symbol! Here it is.
It's amazing what weight distribution does. I have the Hakon Viking reenactment sword from Kult of Athena. It weighs 2 pounds and 14 ounces and has a point of balance 5 inches from the guard and a 28 inch blade. Its basically your normal thick edged reenactment sword. Same weight as the original, but completely different sword.
The first thing I notice is the crossguard is quite wide! I think the general "rule" (or rather tendency? Not a rule..) with longswords is that the crossguard is roughly as wide as the grip is long. I don't know if that generally applies to single handed swords. Here the crossguard looks much wider than the grip is long. Those fullers are goooorgeous. Also...first!
Actually, the rules for sword proportions appear to be way more complex. Peter Johnsson has presented his hypothesis on medieval sword design in the 2016 exhibition and catalogue "The Sword - Form & Thought". Very recommendable: ua-cam.com/video/FiSoLMx3v0I/v-deo.html
Plus, there are also longswords, some of which I have examined myself, who have comparably short crossguards: facebook.com/266934476773420/photos/a.407448459388687.1073741885.266934476773420/975559985910862/?type=3&theater
Oooh cool. Thanks for the info.
You are welcome.
There are also Longswords and One handed swords with Katzbalger hilts: www.pinterest.com/pin/536772849318595026/
How would these be used? Would they be used differently compared to regular cross-hilted swords? Does this indicate that variety of different martial schools of Europe preferred different fighting philosophies? I would love to hear your thoughts on this.
Oh my...I mean obviously there were countless ways of fighting with a sword. Countless different ideas, countless different weapons, different people, different contexts, perhaps what you think of as different "philosophies". We already have a lot of it and that's *only* what a pretty small handful of people decided to write down / document. There were vastly more people using swords than just Fiore / Ringeck / whatever. Who the hell knows, honestly?
Mein Gott...wie kann ein Mensch so cool sein? Du bist mein Held.
Is it possible that the hollow pommels got filled with a material of different weight, and by that change the handling characteristics so as to adapt to the preference of the owner of the sword?
I read somewhere that for the making of swords in Europe you had two distinct professions involved, first there was the swordsmith that manufactered the raw blade, and then it would go to another highly specialised craftsman that in German is called "Schwertfeger", which roughly translates as "Swordpolisher", that would polish and sharpen the blades and do all the montage of putting on crossguard and all the other elements of the handle that make it into a fully functioning weapon. It also was said in that same article, that the "Schwertfeger" trade were the predecessor of modern days "Messerschmied". As many crafts have guilds to this day, some with there own archives, maybe discoveries about details on the process of swordmaking to be made there. Of course this is just the idea of a layman, no offense to the masters!
At last, I'd like to ask you the following, as a Geman you certainly know the story of "Wieland der Schmied", in which is described a rather unique method of obtaining the perfect material to make his masterpiece, the sword "Mimung". Has anyone tried to replicate that process? Since childhood the "Deutsche Sagen und Heldengeschichten" have always been among my favorites. I never imagined and am much exited that we now have HEMA trying to revive the swordmanship of our forefathers.
Its a pity we don't have a manual by Hildebrand, the swordmaster of Dietrich!
The history that I am familiar with shows an evolution of the trades. Meaning that in the 10th century you had blacksmiths that were more generalists that would do everything beyond the simplest of nail and bar making done by apprentices. Past that, they shod horses, made swords, fitted axes, made plows, and hammers for all manner of trades. With increased urbanization came specialty where a sword master only forged and heat treated blades; passing the work on to the polishers and fitters.
From Roman times and before Swordsmith was a master of metal, wood, and leather; making more complete products individually from start to finish. With modernity and specialization associated with population density and the growth of guild education systems the proverb, "Be a jack (Journeyman) of all trades and a Master of one." applies to a more segmented, industrial factory approach to the process. My thoughts, anyway.
Thank you for this extensive post. Dr Stefan Mäder has looked into sources on historical sword-making a lot. I recommend this highly interesting book of his, which I am sure you are going to enjoy. Here you can see the book's table of content: www.gbv.de/dms/tlda/PPN_60451736X.pdf
You will also enjoy Craig Johnson's lecture on the topic here: ua-cam.com/video/b6CzBY7FX8g/v-deo.html
Thank you so much for this thorough, insightful content. Will Check out the book and I've seen the lecture, as I get notifications from you and Thrand. I am a journeyman Smith. Hope to be a Bladesmith someday soon.
You are most welcome, Christopher.
Does the pommel disc being off its' centerline like that enhance or detract from the grip, and if it does help, does that give us information that it was intended for a right-handed or a left-handed user?
I have made this observation on numerous original swords. The twist is usually counter-clockwise and c. 4° - 6°. Very few swords sport the same pommel twist to the other direction. This appears to be intentional to optimize a sword for either right-handed or left-handed use. It becomes obvious when you pick up such a sword: facebook.com/266934476773420/photos/a.344361789030688.1073741867.266934476773420/1168893506577508/?type=3 I have up-loaded two videos for my patrons that show and explain this effect with two original swords from the 9th and 11th century:
www.patreon.com/posts/ingenious-10th-14498101
www.patreon.com/posts/off-center-on-15671471
If you wanted to show a fuller that shallow in a photo or video you might be able to place the edge of a ruler on it so that it shows the gap made by the fuller. I hope that works.
A broad fuller blade section means less suction into soft tissues.
The cut go deeper and the blade is less prone to get stuck.
Have you tried this?
Does a ham or salmon alveolar carving knife count ? Concavities on the blade acts as air pockets so the blade cut better.
Also a good soil knife, or a spade, also works like that, having even a slight concavity in the center mass prevent it from sticking into heavy soil.
Otherwise, we'll have to ask the last people that still burry swords into a living animal, namely, the Spanish toreros.
They use a sword called an estoque, that features one or more deep grooves that goes up to the point.
It is not for making the blade lighter, or stiffer, or pretty, or more agile (there is no swordplay involved, it's a bull). On the contrary. A torero estoque is even weighted with a lead pommel, so it's not even designed for fencing.
A real estoque (estoca de verdad) made in Valencia, Spain, features one, two or even three (even four) grooves for the most expensive ones. It is because if we burry a flat sword into a bull, the sword just plugs the wound. Toreros have to have a sword with a large groove so that air can flow into the wound. These are not speculations.
In case of a media estocada, it is a puncture into an large blood vessel. In the case of an estocada, it is a puncture into the heart. Air bubble means embolism, and so instant death when it reaches the brain.
In case of panic against extremly large and clever bull, a torero can also use the strike called golletazo, now the sword groove is essential to cause instant death with this 'lazy' strike.
Mammals lungs are envelopped in a double layer membrane that allow them to slide freely against the ribcage. Like a fist pushed into a baloon, or having pair of sockets upon another pair of sockets, there's less friction.
With a thrust, when the blade is fullered up to the point or concave, a groove on the blade will act as an air admittance when the blade is burried into a wound. This means aggravated pneumothorax intensity and embolism.
Puncturing that double membrane (aka pleural cavity) with a blade that's featuring a gutter means that the lungs collapse way faster because the double layer membrane fills even more rapidly with fluids and air at each breath. That's almost instant knock out with minimal force applied. That's a huge target area for immediate neutralization that's unlocked with this type of feature on the blade.
Thank you for your extensive reply. You may indeed have a point. I will think about it. Thanks.
I forgot to add - great video, and great sword!
I wish I could have handled it.
How many original swords are there (from, let's say, arbitrarily, before 1400) in similarly good condition?
Oh, I cannot tell you. A few hundred? Nobody would know, as many collections and museums are unaware of their full inventories. And then there is the private market … ! What you see in books are usually the same swords over and over again, simply because authors copy from others authors.
Wow! Very interesting. Huge peen block, four narrow fullers, incredible! Pommel wasn't perfectly straight. I wonder if it was originally slightly offset or if that happened sometime in the last 800 years. It's extremely large, too.
In fact, many pommels on original swords are slightly twisted. Surprisingly, all at more or less the same angulation. There is a hypothesis by sword maker Christopher Gilch that this was actually intentional: When striking a diagonal blow, say from your right shoulder, then the further your arm crosses your torso, the more the hand (and thus the blade) starts to be twisted in a clockwise orientation as the strike progresses. This is a very minute move, but in cutting it often times results in a wavy cutting plane: the cut is not straight but more like a very, very shallow u-shape, which makes your action less effective. In order to prevent this, you have to sightly turn your wrist while striking your blow. Needless to say, that this requires expert fine motor skills and a lot of practice. Nothing wrong with practice, but if the orientation of the pommel was slightly offset for the sword hilt to perfectly accommodate the hand at the *end* of your strike, then the tool facilitates the action. Which I am sure swordmen would have certainly found out in those 4000 years of sword use. Here is a Viking sword with the same feature: facebook.com/266934476773420/photos/a.549286731871525.1073741918.266934476773420/676867112446819/?type=3&theater
I wonder if that thing is an original at all. It looks wonky somehow. But one would have to see it in person.
Do I hear the voice of Thrand here from off camera? Greetings to you guys, and thanks for sharing this interesting vid!
Of course it was Thrand, just posted my comment half way down the vid :)
Since the blade is pitted and has lost some mass, I expect the original point of balance would have been a couple/few inches farther from the pommel than what it is today.
What was the point like, originally? It's pretty round today, but it looks deteriorated. If it was much longer, maybe add another inch to the point of balance.
I would wager the difference is more like a quarter, maybe 3/8 inch. There is just a little pea sized chunk out at the tip, and the very tip may have lost an 1/8" or 2mm. With a nice, gradual distal taper, the even distribution of lost steel on the blade (and some on the pommel) should not affect balance point much at all.
+Christopher Neely - IDK, consider the leverage. Even a few grams of steel on the blade or out at the point would move the center quite a bit.
Hmm. I looked again, and the point is more intact than I thought. But there's pitting all over the blade. Much more so than in the pommel and guard - which also have less moment arm, so less effect per gram. (The grip might be missing some mass too, but probably not too much.) So Idk how to estimate it, maybe your estimate is better then mine. (I have no relevant knowledge or experience...)
Plus, I would think it would make for a better cutting sword, if the center of mass was farther out - and from the point and the overall shape, I kinda assume it's mostly a cutting sword. So if it was a cutter. And if it wasn't farther out, maybe even 4-5 inches worth - maybe it should have been?
No, not a couple of inches. Maybe a few millimeter. The balance would not have been pretty much the same.
This is off topic from the video, but how effective is I.33 in different contexts such as a street fight with multiple people or against different weapons such as a longsword?
I.33 does not deal with any of these contexts. It is a treatise that exclusively focuses on duelling with sword & buckler. And, yes, this is very off-topic indeed.
Late 13 century, right? XIV.3?
It is AWESOME! Having a really old sword (or thing) before your eyes is... strange. I find difficult to realize that is really antique. °_°
Correct, this would be my guess, too: Late 13th c, type XIV. Yes, it definitely is a privilege and an exciting experience to handle original swords. If you enjoy this kind of video, you may care to note that supporters of my work ($3+ patrons) have constant access to exclusive video presentations of original historical weapons: www.patreon.com/Dimicator/posts?rewardTier=300
Maybe you could also grind/file or cut the peen block away and try to save the end of the tang.
Possibly, but I have seen at least one example where this was apparently not the case, and both tang and peening block appear to have been shortened. As Craig said, there never was only one way to do it, plus, the expertise of craftsmen carrying out modifications is likely to have been inconsistent.
How do you perform maintenance on your swords?
Keeping your sword clean and dry goes a long way. Here is some more information: facebook.com/pg/Dimicator-266934476773420/photos/?tab=album&album_id=302204576579743
That's a VERY large pommel. Is it hollow?
No, this one is not, as far as we can say.
Fascinating! Subscribing!
Fascinating!
Pure sword kino.
Beautiful blade. Too bad you couldn't handle it, asses it's pivot points and how easily it flows.
Yes, that is true. However, I did take the pivot points for my full scale tracing/drawing of the weapon.
That WOULD be in Minnesota lol.
Wurde dieses Schwert beim schmiedevorgang gefaltet? Man erkennt keine damaszierung....habe aber gehört das dies auch in Europa gemacht wurde....
Sogenannte Schweissverbundstähle, gemeinhin und etwas unscharf als Damast bezeichnet, wurden bei *allen* Schmiedeerzeugnissen bis zur Industralisierung im 19. Jahrhundert produziert.
Roland Warzecha danke
Gern geschehen.
"Moonbrand". Anyone else know Wereworld?
No, what is it?
Roland Warzecha It's just a sword from a fantasy series I remember reading. A slightly weird series, but an actually good story.
I see, thanks for the reply.
they invite thrand to Arms and Armor yet thrand uses Windlass and deepeeka quality swords in his videos.... atleast give him an actual sword to use for his videos
Roland plays guitar? His hands look like he does and his intro is a bit of a metal music so, I would fucking like to c him playin a guitar. Or a medieval kind of :P
Wears a Captain America T-shirt because its basically a sexy viking shield. Hahaha!
CthonicSoulChicken No. More of a rotella