... grown-up and I assume my students do too. I don't have any rules on attendence either. If students can't make it then they simply don't progress, which is...
I made (what i think is, but i'm biased....) a fair repo of a roundle dagger out of a large file, using a big old steel washer as the and guard and some scrap...
... about ... dager ... their ... to ... That's an issue that gets a *lot* of debate. Museum-type people have told me that swords and daggers ranger from very...
I've looked at quite a few of these also. ( built one out of a broken sword blade once) Many are of a thick diamond section similar to an Estoc blade, which is...
I think there are several sides to this question. Why point down; in my opinion, for much the same reason that the oberhau is generally preferred over the...
I forgot to mention that it's in old Dutch. I'm not quite up to translating it. Yet. ;) ... fortunately the musket and pike chapters are fairly short, about 12...
... Don't worry about it too much. I can't read a significant portion of the interesting texts. :-) ... I suspect you're right. Most likely starting with...
This probably needs some nuanceing: there are examples of dagger cuts to the hands in some manuals, such as in the Solothurner manual, and I think Marozzo......
... What about context? For example, if I am in a battlefield situation, I am not going to have time to play around and will want to be as direct as possible,...
Dante di Pietro <dante_di_pietro@...> wrote: --- In western-arts@yahoogroups.com, "silly_pl4c3" <silly_pl4c3@...> ... What about context? For example,...
... <<<<<The dagger was a secondary weapon at best in the period, despite being an omnipresent tool of everyday use. Ringeck doesn't even cover it in his...
Hi everyone. I find myself in severe financial trouble and I am trying to sell most of my weapon collection in an attempt to climb out of the hole. I won't...
... Or from our interpretation of said source material. I've stayed out of this one, but just have two things to say. First, the "icepick" grip is very...
Paul Wagner
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Feb 3, 2006 4:54 am
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... Slap noted. ... take ... them first ... where ... killers in ... Hi Paul, And none of these knife fighters have been able to slide to one side and attack...
Hey Hugh I have seen what appear to be a "normal" dagger's with a rondell type handle's it is not unknown for a cutting dagger to have a rondell "type" handle....
... Hi Jeff, Yes, I've seen some like that, too. I've seen them double edged, single edged (with a flat blade, I mean), almost equilateral triangles in cross...
... I don't have any trained knife fighters among my friends, but it has been my experience too against some of the would-be knife fighters; as they are...
... Hmm... What about later period works? Whilst the winter coat comment is almost certainly a good one, one would expect say, tavern brawling to involve a ...
Hi Hugh, ... No offence meant :) - just we alway have to be aware what we do is an *interpretation*, and if something looks silly or doesn't make sense or ...
Paul Wagner
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Feb 3, 2006 11:50 am
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By near unanimous request, a translation of van Buren's pike handling: http://www.truefork.org/DragonPreservationSociety/pike/index.php...
I don't recall any in art work, I did see one in a display from the Higgin's armoury. Jeff ... __________________________________________________ Do You...
... an ... sense or ... not the ... I'm glad to hear that: I detest it when someone just assumes that a different idea is a result of weak study. Thank you...
... Not to be condescending, but perhaps that is not the only way to end up in the shears. Have you tried the way where you sort of strike his thrust to the...
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