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Oh great. Not too terribly far away. My back yard is pretty small I'm afraid. It would be nice if we could trade off on the driving.

Oh well.

I'm heading out the door as I type this (can you hear my wife yelling?).

Can you drop me an email at scottwegener@gmail.com? We can figure out the ...

I'm about an hour from Boston. Are you in the city itself, or just using it as a point of easy reference?

George Silver called his weapon of choice a "shortsword". Its a basic baskethilt broadsword like this:

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the blade is 33.5" - usually not what people today would consider "short"

Sure, and look at a katana. Its is the "long sword" of the Samurai paired swords, yet typical length is about the ...

I realise this post is quite old, but I live in Southern NH and am trying to find someone to study with. Did you ever have any luck?

I went down to Higgins a week or so ago and watched one of the guild's demonstrations. It was interesting, but not what I was looking for -very slow, more a study ...

In my reading I've noticed that the term is very liquid. There is no real size at which a sword is short, long, or otherwise. Its one of those things taht's more a product of modern literature and RPGs than reality.