News and Blogs
Tip Thickness on Historical Feders, New Information?
Today Nathan discusses some new historical feder information from Julian and the Spadone Project research folks. They...
Is HEMA Actually Experimental Archaeology?
Today Dr. Nathan Clough discusses how our choice of training tools and conventions might limit what we can learn abou...
2025 Arms and Armor T-shirts and Hoodies
We are happy to announce that our 2025 Arms and Armor t-shirts are now available. We also have some hoodies. These a...
Medieval Boar Spear Technology
Today we have two videos for you, the first is a video of Nathan explaining some aspects of boar spear design in ligh...
Merry Seaxmas! Viking Battle Knives In Stock for Christmas
Today we take a look at three Viking period Seax battle knives that we have in stock for the holiday season. The two ...
A Happy New Spear! Introducing The Fébus Boar Spear.
Today we are happy to introduce you to a new product, the Fébus Boar Spear. This spear is based on an original 16th c...
Black Friday Weekend: Merry Axemas
This year for Black Friday we are offering a package deal on axes! If you purchase any Dane Axe you can add a Nordla...
Black Friday and Holiday Deals
The holiday season is closing in on us and the little (well, not that little) elves at Arms and Armor are preparing s...
Shock knives for HEMA dagger work?
Today we watch Dr. Nathan Clough get electrocuted for science, er, kind of... Shock knives are a martial arts trainin...
Introducing our new historical trainer, the Fechtschule Feder
Today we are happy to announce that the initial batch of our new historical fencing longsword is available. This is a...
Risers on spear shafts: What are they for?
Today we take a look at some historical depictions of leather and iron risers on the shafts of late medieval and Rena...
Should I put my finger over the crossguard when holding a sword?
Today we look at a little piece of sword technology called the ricasso, the unsharpened extension of the tang that al...