News and Blogs
Icebreaker HEMA 2025
Arms and Armor is very pleased to support the 2025 Icebreaker Open HEMA tournament. This is the local tournament in t...
Sword Tariffs? Info For Our Customers And Communities
The current tariffs have the potential to impact sword makers and customers around the world. The market for swords i...
Making a Viking Spear: The Arms and Armor Norseman Spear
Today we take a look at how we make the Arms and Armor Norseman Viking Spear. This handmade product is based on his...
Quillion Dagger vs Rondel Dagger: What Are the Differences?
Today we take a look at two common dagger varieties from the Late Medieval period, cruciform quilloin daggers and ron...
Shaping and finishing a rapier guard: 2
Today we have the second part of our series on how we make our world-famous rapier guards. In the previous post we de...
Forming the inner guard of a rapier
Today we take a look at how we at Arms and Armor hand-form our complex rapier guards. Each piece is individually hand...
How we make sword grips
Today Nathan and Ian demonstrate how we make our sword grips. Our grips are hand shaped from hardwood, fitted to each...
Problems with learning from replicas of replicas: Whiskey and Weapons
Today Nathan and Craig have a discussion over some whiskey about the pitfalls for the HEMA and broader sword communit...
A Detailed Look At Our Claymore Hilt
Today we take a close look at the details involved in making our Claymore or Scottish Two-Hander sword hilt. This is ...
Mounting a Battle Axe to a Haft
This is the first in our "how we make it" series of posts. Here we showcase some of the hand-working techniques that ...
Reflections on Handmade Swords and SoCal Swordfight
Today we begin a new series of videos that focus on why Arms and Armor pieces are different from most other high-qual...
Happy St. Patrick's Day
We want to wish you all a Glorious St. Patty's Day where ever you are celebrating today! In the past we have done a c...