Florian F Fortner Posted January 19, 2018 Author Share Posted January 19, 2018 Doug, yes sideswords are cut and thrust swords. They come in all kinds of shapes and sizes, yet it must be suitable for cuts and thrusts equally and will often be used with sidearms like bucklers or targas. Maybe you had the narrower more thrust oriented rapier in mind? If you are interested in the use of this kind of weapon, just google Achille Marozzo and you will get the idea... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Lester Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 I might have been confusing it with the smallsword. Of course both sidesword and smallsword are probably more modern terms for the two weapons. Doug HELP...I'm a twenty year old trapped in the body of an old man!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lukas MG Posted February 4, 2018 Share Posted February 4, 2018 The trouble to which you go for a sparring blunt is mind-boggling every time you post a new project. Excellent work. You may be wrong on the "not selling things" part. Very, VERY few people make high quality rapiers and sideswords. For the work you produce, 3000+ Euros is easily in it. Still too cheap for how much work there is in them but well, that's how the market is. http://www.lukasmaestlegoer.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florian F Fortner Posted February 8, 2018 Author Share Posted February 8, 2018 (edited) Lukas, I rather put the work into something I use a few times a week instead into something that will just hang on the wall and not get used at all. Pommel is finished now: And here finally the assembled sword. I'm off tomorrow for a fencing event, there I'll have the possibility to test it thoroughly... Edited February 8, 2018 by Florian F Fortner 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles dP Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 Sweet. Get someone to take some photos of it in action. "The way we win matters" (Ender Wiggins) Orson Scott Card Nos, qui libertate donati sumus, nes cimus quid constet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes Detrick Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 Damn, that is fantastic work “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer." -Albert Camus http://www.krakenforge.net/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerrod Miller Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 OK, I have been trying to figure this out since your post on Jan 18th. How do you get the wire to follow the contour of the grip? Is it just a matter of gluing it, or is there another trick? I was able to cast my crossguard and pommel for my sparring longsword (blade by Castille Armory in Oregon; it is a bit stiff and definitely needs a blunt on the tip for safe thrusting - I use a .45 ACP case). I would cringe way too much if I had put that much effort into a sparring set-up. Every parry would make me worry. It would probably make me focus on proper parries with the strong of the blade though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeb Camper Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 Awesome sword Florian! I think it's awesome that you actually fence with these. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Stephens Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 Beautiful work! -----------------------------------------------"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly." -- Theodore Roosevelthttp://stephensforge.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Dougherty Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 My god man! This thing just keeps getting better -Brian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salem Straub Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 That's amazing hilt work, I love it! Please come and waste some otherwise perfectly good time, looking at my knives! www.prometheanknives.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Hoffman Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 The sword is beautiful. I find it hard to imagine the amount of work that went into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua States Posted February 14, 2018 Share Posted February 14, 2018 Uh......what they said. Dang fantastic work. “So I'm lightin' out for the territory, ahead of the scared and the weak and the mean spirited, because Aunt Sally is fixin’ to adopt me and civilize me, and I can't stand it. I've been there before.” The only bad experience is the one from which you learn nothing. Josh http://www.dosgatosdesignsllc.com/#! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdJMFMqnbLYqv965xd64vYg J.States Bladesmith | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/dos.gatos.71 https://www.etsy.com/shop/JStatesBladesmith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florian F Fortner Posted February 14, 2018 Author Share Posted February 14, 2018 Thanks guys for the praise! It's a pleasure to post my work in this place!! Jerrod, the grip is quite easy. You shape the wood core to the finished form with all the flutes, then you wrap the wire as tight as you would on a flat grip and secure the ends. Lastly, you hammer the wire into the flutes (with a smooth rounded chisel or similar, to prevent cutting or kinking the wire). The wire will stretch and stay in the flutes because it's annealed. As for the sparring abuse: If the hilt is made of 1045 or better, the damage will be on the surface only, nothing deep. Some fencing masters (Pietro Monte for example) advised to have the hilt hardened except for the part where the tang goes through the crossguard. Just make sure your blade and hilt are bit harder than your opponents (which is easy considering the soft stuff most people buy from the standard retailers) Here are some pics of this sword after three days of hard sparring at last weekends event. The cutting edge is less than 1mm and was not rounded - still no deep burrs. The hilt got some chips, but that just adds to the authenticity 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clifford Brewer Posted February 14, 2018 Share Posted February 14, 2018 Definitely not a trailer queen, a now proven warrior .......Excellent !!! If ya can't be good don't git caught !! People who say stuff can't be done need to git the hell outta the way of people who do stuff !!! Show me a man who is called an expert by his peers And I will show you a good man to listen to ...... Show me a man who calls himself an expert and I will show you an egotistical asshole...............!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerrod Miller Posted February 14, 2018 Share Posted February 14, 2018 Cool, thanks Florian! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter fontenla Posted February 14, 2018 Share Posted February 14, 2018 Superb Florian !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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