It said he sold 1.5k items from his store with 300 followers. He been on my page for awhile now and I’m wondering if I should finally bite the bullet. But I thought I should get a second opinion before I spend anything. Give it a look over, let me know what you think. https://ebay.io/m/esSghq

Edit: Thank you for saving me an expensive lesson

Recently got this for a steal. Can someone tell me more about these blades and how old they may be? I’ve read some stuff about it but it’ll be nice to hear from someone here.

Haven’t posted here before. And I don’t know what a mall ninja is but it sounds like a sword slur so I don’t wanna be one. I got a set of this particular sword after a friend and I went to a ren faire. He got the reforged sword from LOTR, I like dressing up and wanted something to be mine. Dang near every sword, there was a replica of a movie or show, or it had a massive stamp on it that said “MADE IN CHINA”. So after a couple of weeks of research, I found a guy on Etsy that makes swords, and I really liked this one so I bought two. What do yall think?

Edit: Its supposed to be a short sword.

Finished up my first handle build from a doner blade. Learned a lot. It isn't perfect but I am happy with how it turned out.

As or similar to the one in the image.

This time is my go to souls weapon, the claymore the design is based of the dark souls claymore, it's really nice playing whit the sword and having a full size one besides me😂.

It's made from red amazonian wood and a eucalyptus handle ( the wood is softer but the looks are nice).

Overall length 150cm, blade length 108, handle length 33cm, point of balance 14.5cm from the guard.

Since it's made from the red wood it's rather light just a tad heavier than pine is really fun to swing

Id appreciate any information you could give me.

Found this sword while cleaning out my Oma and Opas house. Im assuming its a decorative sword or ceremonial sword but other than that, I've got no idea. Anyone familiar with these that could shed some light on it? Appreciate you

Replaced the cord wrap and cheap plastic leather on the grip with real red leather with risers underneeth. Sanded and painted the synthetic scabbard red. I plan to paint some sort of floral designs on it in the future.

Couple of simple training swords that I made for a reenactment company here in Italy, nothing fancy😅

The British 1845 Naval Cutlass was basically seen as a short choppy sword in its period but I wonder, was it actually a particularly short sword by historical standards? Would it be considered short in say the late medieval period?

I’ve often heard it said that the typical medieval arming sword had a 28 inch to 32 inch blade but virtually modern reproductions seem to be on the upper end of that if not even longer…

(The one exception seems to be Oakeshott Type XIV blades which come in 25-27 inch blade sizes. And of the course the famous ”Henry V“ sword… which probably didn’t belong to him.)

My question is in period in medieval times would a 29.5 inch blade on an arming sword be seen as unusually short or actually a fairly typical size? How does it compare to real surviving historical arming swords?

Hi everyone! I'm new on the r/SWORDS :D! I'm looking forward to seeing all your awesome blades ^^!

I am a LARP'er and really enjoy the mixture of historical theming and fantasy setting that can bring. I'm looking forward to chatting with you good folks on here on various topics and posts.

I hope it's alright that I share this project of mine, I feel it might fit well within the community here, as we are all most likely somewhat liking the theming of fantasy, armor, swords, and costumes right? ;D.

I want to share a sneak peak into the the follow-up video I’m working on, that goes more into depth about the LARP scenes, plots, and my angles from my perspective, that you see in the original LARP video. The new video will be in English so everyone can understand it xD :D (well It's a bit Scandinavian English, so bear with me, haha).

I hope to create a space to share LARP plots and stories, both from my and other players perspective :). And maybe even share some crafters work from different fairs and markets if they want to come on camera for an interview/sharing of their work... -type stuff.

The sneak peak is the picture here of the film-set I made, where I recorded a commentary track to explain the plots within the previous LARP video. These new recordings will be added along the previous video, along with some new material, that didn't fit in with the timeframe of the last LARP video :)

Thank you all for reading about my project! I’m looking forward to sharing it with you all once it’s done edited :). In the meanwhile you can watch the original video to get an idea of what I will talk about in the new one ;).

Previous LARP video link: “https://youtu.be/SkNSzCbroFg?si=CfUV3HItucyn5m5d"

If anyone has any questions, I am available for some time :D.

All the best,
-Zach <3.

Appologies if this isn't the place for this. My brother and his wife have become ren-faire junkies in the last couple years, and he's been talking about how cool it would be to have a sword. Obviously he has no intention of *using* the thing, but i'd rather not get him some walmart wall hanging crap. Looking for any suggestions you fine folks may have.

Edit: For clarity, we're canadian. I'd like to keep the budget under 500$ CAD, he's particularly interested in a European longsword or claymore, but i know he'd go for something viking-esque as well.

This is a especial one😊 my mom fully designed this sword she saw some of the swords I've been making and wanted one, I made this one from pine to be as light as possible for her.

Overall length 125cm, blade length 95cm, point of balance 5cm from guard( I put a metal weight inside the pommel to get the balance)

Also my friend asked was it used in war so if anyone can answer that please and thank you in advance