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arcanology

New swords

Jul 20, 2010 15:22

In the spirit of telling everyone about hobbies they don't care about, a contrasting pair of new swords coming in:

for group training:

http://www.woodenswords.com/WMA/RedDragon.htm

for myself only:

Comments 10

marcusmarcusrc July 20 2010, 20:23:02 UTC

Ooh, pretty!

Um. I mean. *deep voice* Impressive */deep voice*

dcltdw July 20 2010, 20:33:28 UTC

a contrasting pair

What're the differences between the two?

Also: shiny!

arcanology July 20 2010, 21:42:10 UTC

Uh, one is plastic, for hitting people you like, the other steel, for hitting people you do not like.

fredrickegerman July 21 2010, 13:06:41 UTC

Also, more than a 10x difference in price I suspect. :-)

fredrickegerman July 20 2010, 21:12:38 UTC

Hmm, did he sell you the Munich along with the scabbard, or did you have to order the sword from albion and then send it along?

You can tell what kind of a sword guy I am by the fact that I don't actually seem to own any sharps.

arcanology July 20 2010, 21:20:28 UTC

The reason I bought it is because he was selling that particular one with scabbard for a discount (well, a discount off the price of both together).

firstfrost July 20 2010, 22:34:39 UTC

So I was clicking around on the scabbard pages, looking at all the pages, then got to the choice between hanging your sword from a belt or a thong. The idea of swordsmen wearing swords on thongs is... very fur loincloth barbarian.

Except when I looked at it again, it was a choice of buckle or thong, not belt or thong, so I guess it just means "buckle or tying-strap".

remcat July 21 2010, 11:52:52 UTC

"scent stopper pommel"?

fredrickegerman July 21 2010, 13:11:28 UTC

Never figured out who coined that term, but it's been the standard name for as long as I've known anything about the subject. And it's generally pretty obvious what it means once you've seen one or two... like putting a round stopper on the end of your sword, thus easy to manipulate the sword from the pommel end.

Of course, actual perfume bottles have crazy shaped caps these days... you can probably get a bottle of perfume with a disc pommel cap.

remcat July 21 2010, 14:53:49 UTC

Ahhhh ... I was thinking it was some sort of chemically-treated material that literally stopped scent -- so your sword doesn't smell like sweaty hands ;).