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Its been a long time to come but it feels good to finally have an answer instead of a question. :D

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Tada

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The armors half gone but hopefully that helps a little at ...

I've always been amazed at the disconnect between armor buffs and sword buffs, As a mostly armour guy I can tell you that its no big mystery.

In the 1300s it was vary common for knights to have three chains running from their coat-of-plates, one attached to their dagger, one to their great helm ...

Thanks guys, I just might contact this Cashen fellow.

Thanks again.

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Good, sounds like you've been kicking ass.

Hello all,

I've been gone for a while but now I'm back.

I have a professor who teaches material science, and in all the classes I have taken with him he has professed the greatness of the Japanese sword. He has said that it was "by far the best". :evil: I'm sure they were nice.

Can anyone educate ...

well its not urgent enough that I need to get a sword from Europe. but I was actuall planning on frequenting their moat sale from now until xmass. I have seen axe and maul heads there before and wonted to get one of each and shaft them to make gifts.

If anyone knows where else they might sell ...

Hi just a quick answer will do but Im trying to find a christmass gift for a friend a cant get to albion-swords.com

did they change web addresses or are they just temporarily down or did they.........go......out.......*sob*........of buisiness???

Thanks for the help guys. I knew there steel wasn't magic or anything its a shame the rest of the world doesnt see that.

I appreciate the post Brian.

Thanks

OK, so pretty much whatevers lying around.

What about how you cut it? any special stand you use?
Do you have the pumkins at chest level or just on the ground?

Thanks.

Ok so its simpler than I thought. Just sand paper eh.

Thanks

This is my last thread tonight I promise.

All I cut with my sword are sticks and on occasion a cardboard box.
Boxes are light and aquard to cut, and if im cutting sticks there either twigs or give me the feeling im takeing years of my swords life.

What do you guys cut?
What do you set your ...

So im in a metalurgy class at my comunity colledge, and the prof. is a really neat old guy.

I talked to him about my medievalist tendencies and the next class he had a bunch of articles for me to read. He even asked if I could sneak my sword into the colledge. Which I did.

But he keeps ...

So I've got a really nice albion agincourt sword and a bit ago I dicided to sharpen it.

My goal was to use the wetstone I have to sharpen the tip of the blade and slightly dullen it near the shoulder, and somewhat all along the strong of the blade.

I'm not sure what the deal is, perhaps my ...

Good posts guys

I think I tend to agree with Aaron and Tailleboise though. I die if a 13 year old nerd hits me with a sword just like I die when a 30 year old body builder hits me with a sword. My opinion is now, as long as you've got a capable/able body, its the skill and endurance that matter ...

A sparring friend and I have finnally started using our gym memberships. He wants to bulk up, I however am wondering what the best method for improving my swordsmanship.

So what do you guys think, is it more important to swordsmanship to build bulk muscle or tone muscles?

Historically there ...