Why thank you sir such comments coming from a fellow Ork combatant are allways highly apprecated.
I am planning on doing another buckler for mysef with a big punching spike mounted in the boss and possibly some Ork glyphs around the edge saying "Especially for Legolas".
Well it isn't in any Osprey book so that will upset a great many re enactors who will accuse you of just making it up! Those who have looked at Talhoffer will either love it or will want to steal it from you. Either way it will be lots of fun especially when you get their blade traped in "the scoop of doom" as Gary calls it!
Ah, but the Holy Books of Osprey are the only true source of knowledge, as you should know - and as Hans Talhoffer wouldn't have read them, any information found in his manuscript must be regarded with suspicion...
I had a play with it at training on Tuesday, and it's very interesting to use - it favours a somewhat wider style than I've used in the past, and seems to be rather useful for forcing openings. I think I'll need a fair bit of practice with it before I can make the most use of it, though...
Interesting that fits the fights shown in the Talhoffer illustrations perfectly as opposed to the more enclosed style shown in I.33 Di grasi also says that the square type of buckler is better at parrying edge blows as its sides are flat and so the blade is less likely to skip of, as opposed to the smaller round buckler. I wonder if the heavy cusping on the edge of your buckler is fullfilling a similar role, besides just looking pretty. As for it being usefull at forcing openngs well what a shame i pitty the next line of arrogant bill men that you come across.
I used it again at training last night, and I'm beginning to get the hang of it a bit more - I even managed to get Myk a few times! The ability to lock up a weapon for a few moments is really telling, and the cusps between the main points mean that there's very little play once a weapon's been caught. Unsurprisingly, it's also extremely effective against poles, as they can simply be trapped and lifted...
Also late to the party; buckler is cool, although I made a cloak to try rapier and cloak (Fabris) when the evilmattikinz declares it's open season on girls in his garden again.
Thought I'd say hi, I was at TORM / pub with Matti & Suzi on Saturday.
Hello, was good catching up with you again so who are you training with for the Fabris rapier stuff? Rapier and cloak is fun ebven if it is annoying when i get the damn thing tangled up in my own blade! I shall have to post about the other buckler i recently made as i think as a student of the rapier you will appreciate it. Hmmm if its going to be open season in Mattis garden some time then i shall bring the bag o swords down for a weekend and we could have a play. Hope you don't mind but I have salos added you to my friends list.
Not doing any rapier practice at the moment. The tale is, I bought a rapier having decided that Mr 'kinz brace were fabulous, and had got some practice with the Matti until wyte_phantom lured him away to play medieval. Matt lent me a general book on Renaissance fencing which pretty much said, that if Silver was the master to follow in Shakespeare plays, Fabris is more the man for 'The Three Musketeers' . . . I'm a sucker for Dumas' swashbuckling heroes :-) So I'd carried on with the solo drill in both Fabris' book and Tom Leoni's lessons (see link on my page) but that's been about it. If you know anyone interested in the 1620s & 1630s rather than the ECW . . . Matti garden salon had been girls (and simonsatori playing small sword) although I assume orks are welcome. Not that he's bothered for a while (wet grass too treacherous underfoot, and besides he's had the kit sewing mountain to subdue). It would be good to re-start :-)
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If they allowed the use of metal bucklers at Eos I'd ask you to make me one too. Stunning job!!
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I am planning on doing another buckler for mysef with a big punching spike mounted in the boss and possibly some Ork glyphs around the edge saying "Especially for Legolas".
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Those who have looked at Talhoffer will either love it or will want to steal it from you.
Either way it will be lots of fun especially when you get their blade traped in "the scoop of doom" as Gary calls it!
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Di grasi also says that the square type of buckler is better at parrying edge blows as its sides are flat and so the blade is less likely to skip of, as opposed to the smaller round buckler.
I wonder if the heavy cusping on the edge of your buckler is fullfilling a similar role, besides just looking pretty.
As for it being usefull at forcing openngs well what a shame i pitty the next line of arrogant bill men that you come across.
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It seems to be working out the way you hoped it would cant wait to see it in action at Tatton Park.
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Thought I'd say hi, I was at TORM / pub with Matti & Suzi on Saturday.
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Rapier and cloak is fun ebven if it is annoying when i get the damn thing tangled up in my own blade!
I shall have to post about the other buckler i recently made as i think as a student of the rapier you will appreciate it.
Hmmm if its going to be open season in Mattis garden some time then i shall bring the bag o swords down for a weekend and we could have a play.
Hope you don't mind but I have salos added you to my friends list.
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So I'd carried on with the solo drill in both Fabris' book and Tom Leoni's lessons (see link on my page) but that's been about it. If you know anyone interested in the 1620s & 1630s rather than the ECW . . .
Matti garden salon had been girls (and simonsatori playing small sword) although I assume orks are welcome. Not that he's bothered for a while (wet grass too treacherous underfoot, and besides he's had the kit sewing mountain to subdue). It would be good to re-start :-)
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