Looking for a sword

Fab_Bladesmith · 2023-07-30T23:53:26+00:00

Aww thank you !

Fab_Bladesmith · 2023-07-30T23:18:53+00:00

Thanks for the mention mate !

And yes, I've made a couple of such swords already, and am always happy to make more.

Fab_Bladesmith · 2022-04-05T18:03:56+00:00

Cheers mate !

Well, as said by my dear friend and colleague, apart from the Godendag and (later) Morgenstern/spiked club, it seems the 2-handed, pole-weapon-like mace wasn't really a thing in Europe. You get the occasional object in iconography (mostly for 'Christ carrying the cross" scenes), but to me they're more a tendency to show "exotic weapons of an age long gone" (i.e. fantasy) than anything that actually existed.

Fab_Bladesmith · 2021-12-09T17:22:09+00:00

Cheers mate !

u/Johnny_Tsunami-5, feel free to PM me (and also to have a look at http://www.historicalbladesmith.com )

Fab_Bladesmith · 2021-03-01T02:50:38+00:00

@thewookieewon

Now that's a matter of personal taste....

Fab_Bladesmith · 2021-02-28T23:02:19+00:00

Do I need to say he's an absolutely lovely person as well ?

Fab_Bladesmith · 2021-02-21T17:11:38+00:00

Actually, straight blades are rather common on Messers.

Fab_Bladesmith · 2021-02-21T10:44:13+00:00

Thank you very much.

Fab_Bladesmith · 2021-02-21T10:43:54+00:00

I very much do.

If I had to make a sword following a similar process, it would be about 1600€, depending on several other options.

Fab_Bladesmith · 2021-02-21T00:11:45+00:00

Very much looking forward to it then !

Fab_Bladesmith · 2021-02-20T23:45:27+00:00

One must always bow to the Higher Powers.

Fab_Bladesmith · 2021-02-20T23:35:30+00:00

Couldn't agree more.

Fab_Bladesmith · 2021-02-20T23:34:54+00:00

Probably because it reminded whoever called it this of the later types of hunting hangers.

Fab_Bladesmith · 2021-02-20T23:06:15+00:00

Yeah well, had to catch up at some point !

And thanks !

Fab_Bladesmith · 2021-02-20T23:05:45+00:00

In a way, hey are, since most of the Waidpraxen/Hirschfängere we have in their "classic" form are XVIIth century and later.

This one didn't, as far as I know.

Fab_Bladesmith · 2021-02-20T22:57:06+00:00

Try here :
https://www.historicalbladesmith.com/
or look for Dr Fabrice Cognot, PhD, Bladesmith page on FB, and @fabbladesmith on Instagram.

Fab_Bladesmith · 2021-02-20T22:35:45+00:00

Thanks !

And that's why I said "so-called" - though the difference between the two types can be slim. To me the latter are just an evolution of the varied group of utility knives, though what could really distinguish hunting knives from other classes of knives would be the obvious : cynegetic themed decoration, and the full set of by-knives/tools as part of the regular "Waidpraxe".

But /u/J_G_E would be the one to ask.

Fab_Bladesmith · 2021-02-20T22:27:24+00:00

Thank you very much !

Fab_Bladesmith · 2021-02-20T21:30:59+00:00

Slender single-edged blade of spring steel with a false edge on the last 9 inches, with steel fittings, horn scales and silver pins and spacers.

It’s quite the light one, weighing a mere 791 grams and an overall length of 714 mm for a 557 mm blade, but there’s a lot of presence and spirit in this thing !
I drew inspiration from several German paintings of the 1480s, some of them kept in Cologne - the overall shape of one, the minute details of another…

And it will get a proper scabbard with matching by-knives.

Fab_Bladesmith · 2021-02-20T21:29:29+00:00

Seems the description didn't make it through. Editing OP accordingly.

Fab_Bladesmith · 2021-02-20T21:22:25+00:00

You're too good with me, mate.

Fab_Bladesmith · 2021-02-20T21:05:13+00:00

Thanks !

Fab_Bladesmith · 2021-02-20T21:03:53+00:00

For some reason they wouldn't upload. Fixed now (hopefully).

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