And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
All those vambraces and chain mail, still its just under the arms where the weakest armor exists. Somebody get pig sticker in under your guard there and your good as dead in a couple minutes. Bad place to be steel'd.
Thinking, real serious like, that kind of combat just might be back in fashion, not just cause of TINVOWOOT, but in case of WWROL, Steel, real steel weaponry, is a mighty fine way to deal out justice to one's enemies.
Been forging some knives just for personal pleasure for a while now, finally hammered out the kind of length width, thickness, and balance, wanted a wicked shaped slim Bowie type blade, and handle of course, a most custom made just to fit me right, strapped to my boot, rides rather high, the point partly but not all the ways, down my boot, to avoid ankle bite and leave full free motion down there, but still tucked in tight. Has a simple keeper strap to stabilize it from flopping, something that no matter what, put a set of really stought snaps for keepers inside top of my boots, you know, something which does not jam or run out of boolits. Always there at the ready. Made it as nasty a pig sticker as I could make it. Has a serious guard and a pinky hook at the pommel, a kind of partial full hand guard without having the full strap covering the knuckles. Forged it from some W2 high vanadium water hardening tool steel, spring tempered the spine and just short of the point so its got built in spring back, makes it harder to snap off in something and easier to pull out of something, if you catch my drift.
Incidentally, watched the original 7 Samari other day, and the big lunk, with the really long pig sticker, thats my kind of sword right there, have that puppy in an over the shoulder rig, yeah. Kind of piece makes "closing with steel" an entirely different perspective. Like that slight long curve, and the three handed length handle, its not saber like, but its got a certain grace, and doesn't detract much if at all from using the point, as in stabbing action, its almost a perfect balance between both. Just might attempt forging one. Kind of tricky, its a lot of steel to hammer out real even, and how you get the curve comes from how you quench it when you harden it. Got to use a special clay painted on, just in the right amount thickness varies along the length. You can adjust it a little and straighten minor unwanted curves quenching creates, get them out during tempering. W2 forges sweet as can be, so its a good sword alloy.
Like the oblong buckler the dude on the right uses. I understand with a suitable edge and proper straps, a good buckler makes a very decent weapon in its own right particularly close inside sword arcs. Wack the other guy upside under his chin or in the kidneys, or the foot, knee or elbow, good tactic for creating that split second when the other guy's guard goes down. A good under armor/mail device, called a gambrel i think, anyways its a thick cotton batting jacket, padding, its stitched in a particular square puff pattern, for taking hard hits its supposed to be excellent.
All those vambraces and chain mail, still its just under the arms where the weakest armor exists. Somebody get pig sticker in under your guard there and your good as dead in a couple minutes. Bad place to be steel'd.
ReplyDeleteThinking, real serious like, that kind of combat just might be back in fashion, not just cause of TINVOWOOT, but in case of WWROL, Steel, real steel weaponry, is a mighty fine way to deal out justice to one's enemies.
ReplyDeleteBeen forging some knives just for personal pleasure for a while now, finally hammered out the kind of length width, thickness, and balance, wanted a wicked shaped slim Bowie type blade, and handle of course, a most custom made just to fit me right, strapped to my boot, rides rather high, the point partly but not all the ways, down my boot, to avoid ankle bite and leave full free motion down there, but still tucked in tight. Has a simple keeper strap to stabilize it from flopping, something that no matter what, put a set of really stought snaps for keepers inside top of my boots, you know, something which does not jam or run out of boolits. Always there at the ready.
Made it as nasty a pig sticker as I could make it. Has a serious guard and a pinky hook at the pommel, a kind of partial full hand guard without having the full strap covering the knuckles. Forged it from some W2 high vanadium water hardening tool steel, spring tempered the spine and just short of the point so its got built in spring back, makes it harder to snap off in something and easier to pull out of something, if you catch my drift.
Incidentally, watched the original 7 Samari other day, and the big lunk, with the really long pig sticker, thats my kind of sword right there, have that puppy in an over the shoulder rig, yeah. Kind of piece makes "closing with steel" an entirely different perspective. Like that slight long curve, and the three handed length handle, its not saber like, but its got a certain grace, and doesn't detract much if at all from using the point, as in stabbing action, its almost a perfect balance between both. Just might attempt forging one. Kind of tricky, its a lot of steel to hammer out real even, and how you get the curve comes from how you quench it when you harden it. Got to use a special clay painted on, just in the right amount thickness varies along the length. You can adjust it a little and straighten minor unwanted curves quenching creates, get them out during tempering. W2 forges sweet as can be, so its a good sword alloy.
Like the oblong buckler the dude on the right uses. I understand with a suitable edge and proper straps, a good buckler makes a very decent weapon in its own right particularly close inside sword arcs. Wack the other guy upside under his chin or in the kidneys, or the foot, knee or elbow, good tactic for creating that split second when the other guy's guard goes down. A good under armor/mail device, called a gambrel i think, anyways its a thick cotton batting jacket, padding, its stitched in a particular square puff pattern, for taking hard hits its supposed to be excellent.
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