Reply #54: oh, geez ... my guilty secret ... [View All]

going to peace vigils, and all the while, I have a rack of weapons at home. Most recently I purchased a Jake Powning original (my excuse being that he's a Canadian artisan, and I was "rescuing" his claymore "Blackbird's Lament" .... today I finished polishing it with 1500-grade paper and managed to fix most of the damage done when the previous owner chopped something he shouldn't have, and tried to hide the damage by using a grinder .... cringe!)


I also have a Del Tin 2133, a standard Norman sword by Kirby Wise, and a Saxon/Viking by Lonely Mountain Forge with some runes on it. And an el-cheapo Pompeii gladius which I modified to look more authentic. (I won't count the scramasax by White Hart Forge and the pre-Celtic bronze blade cast by a guy in Pennsylvania, because they're not really "sword" length ... or the Roman pilum head, which I haven't gotten around to mounting yet.)