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Glaive, a new item from Arms & Armor
Today we are happy to introduce a beautiful new product, our 15th Century French Glaive. We are very excited about th...
Sword News! and friends in need!
Hello All. Today's post is a bit different as it's about the wider community of sword folks. The sword world seems t...
Experience the Joy of One-Handed Swords!
Today we have a word or two in support of the one handed sword. The most common style of sword throughout the medieva...
Italian single handed 14th Century Sword, The Malaspina
Marquis of Fosdinovo Galeotto Malaspina
Our Malaspina sword is an excellent example of the knightly arming sword o...
Understanding sword edges
I recently had a nice talk with a younger fellow who was discussing his first sword purchase and some of his concerns...
A custom Roman Gladius
Almost certainly the most iconic sword of the ancient world was the Roman Gladius. This sturdy short sword was the ar...
Bec de Corbyn
Our Bec de Corbyn is a replica of an original 16th century knightly weapon. The original of this piece was obviousl...
Concealed Weapons, do they work?
In today's post we discuss how weapons that are concealed in another object might actually be useful or not. It may w...
Training Swords From Different Times
Today we take a look at three different training swords from the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. We compare a replic...
Experimenting with the impact of Medieval quenching recipes on steel hardness
On Oct 25th The Oakeshott Institute live cast their latest quarterly lecture on researching involving the Institute, ...
How did you start making swords?
Looking back through the flow of life that led me to being a sword maker for the last four decades, I blame one fello...
Arms & Armor's War Hammer
The war hammer was a late medieval weapon hand weapon designed to defeat plate armor. War hammers are part of the fa...