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First example is very interesting. Been trying to quantify a sword I designed and have been working on for a while, because it's not very typical, but it seems like the English Longsword there is pretty much identical to what i created.

There are ways to fight a man with a rifle and bayonet when you have a Smallsword. They were definitely used in warfare. They even had training manuals for fighting the bayonet. Hint: Your Offhand is useful in grabbing a bayonet. Though I'm sure the Smallsword was not designed with warfare in mind. But more of a civil capacity( urban sword) Whats interesting is General Claude Antoine Hippolyte de Préval made a sword himself. Its an 1882 steel four bar sabre hilt with a thicker triangular 36" Smallsword blade on it. Now thats cool.

thank you for so much info. if you're selling just a few as a replica collector that's ok. But if your intend to sell a lot of it, it would be better to make a safer and broader tip, just because we can't trust everyone to be reasonable

Curiously, this design is exactly what I imagined when I heard some people claiming guards could use halberds as fire axes in a pinch. It has the hewing hatchet shaped axe blade, and the billhook style spur. Both invaluable in firefighting in the woods or about wooden structures. But you can also see how it would be an excellent weapon in combat againt street thugs too.

Careful workmanship. Fine job.

Yea, you're right, it is cool! 👍 I was designing a trainer for myself, and I was thinking of something similar. More Charles V rapier when it comes to the pommel, and a side-ring with a plate, so a closed port instead of the side-finials, all in a Saxony shallow diamond style for the fittings. But I wanted no bottom quillon and a twisted upper one, just like on your piece, so thanks for showing me how it would look. And unlike the Charles V rapier which twists inward, I wanted the end of the knuckle-bow to twist outward to avoid catching in a glove (I'll depend on a heavier glove for hand protection, which is also why I want to keep the area around the quillon block free to it more room when I finger the guard). So again, thanks for helping me visualise the look I had in my mind. 😄 Btw, the blackened fittings are great, and that softness of the lines given by the hand forging elevates your pieces quite a lot (you know it, I know it, everyone that follows you know it 👍). Good job on it!

I actually live in Minneapolis not too far from your shop! I've known about you for many years but I never knew you had a TH-cam channel until five minutes ago! New subscriber! 🙂

You're supposed to cut with the end of the sword, not the base of it. It's the speed of the tip, not the mass of the blade, that gives a large sword its power. Kinetic energy equals one half mass times velocity squared.

Please don't compare modern junk with historical maille.

5:26 Another major characteristic to heed is tannin content. Ash and limewood are examples of hardwoods (though limewood is not very hard) that are not rich in tannins. Woods like oak, chestnut, cherry (and many more) are rich in tannins, which corrode iron, so they're traditionally avoided for hilting, hafting and handling ferrous tools. This doesn't mean these corrosive woods were never used historically, just that they were generally avoided and for good reason.

Ulfberht had 8 makers marks. When the other makers saw that, they knew he'd run away with it and there was no hope to compete from such a deficit. Other makers marks started appearing once they could feel confident that he was dead and no longer a threat (ironically, the renaissance). I think striking something on the tang is a nice bone to throw the people of the distant future. A nice alternative might be to include a slender non-bio-degradeable slip or insert on the inside of the grip, or if you want punk, you could punch something that doesn't look like a maker's mark, but can be read as an earbleeding audio file. =p

Well into 1970s, in rural german areas you could find fieldguards , payed by vilage, patroling through fields and meadows, usually only armed with a cane/ stick.

That is a beautiful blade. The length really does suit the "town sword" descriptor. It would be a subtle/discreet addition to any gentleman's outfit, for every-day carry.

There's a rapier typology? I'll buy that book sometime soon.

That's fantastic, lovely "simple" hilt, one of my favorite pommel styles, and the finish on the hilt furniture is perfect. The whole thing looks wonderfully light, as well. I'm not far enough into the video to know if you mention the weight.

Truly lovely.

Beautiful

Yay

when was the bluing of steel invented?

😮Wow! That is a really nice sword. I'm jealous.

Sometimes, most times, I hate this economy

I would be purchase this, great work and thank you for sharing

That guard is a very well piece of art. Wow I loved that.

Nice!

Hi Nathan, I so enjoy these videos. Thank you for taking the time to make them. It helps greatly to appreciate your work and what to purchase. May I ask what books you are using for reference and product guide? Thank you and best wishes to you all

Hi A&A! Love these videos. I’d like to order a few of these but don’t see them on the website. Do you take orders for products you’ve made in the past? Thank you

Guy was on full nerd mode there, fascinated by the sword haha. him and Nathan did a great examine, lovely video.

Iron and steel in those areas in the Middle Ages There were people in the Middle East who were at a very high level in this industry, but there were those who differed in the manufacture of metal and no one told about the secret that made this steel so strong, but that industry disappeared after a while due to the lack of need to manufacture a blade at the time when firearms were discovered and modern weapons became more valuable and swords are not useful if we look in reality how these swords can be able to cut tanks 😂 This is pure imagination, but in the era that was previously based on swords, in this case we can say that Damascus steel, which was smoke silver in color, was the strongest and had superior ability

So I wasn't supposed to throw it at the guy who broke in but targets.

I'm interested in the kinds of swordfighting they'd do. I'm working in this D&D character who's a bit of a swashbuckler. Would he carry a buckler shield? I've also seen it where a guy will hold out a sword in front of him and have some kind of dagger or dirk or whatever in the other hand. What's that one all about? Anyone know?

Got here from some digging, and cant find what I'm looking for despite knowing some exist. How exactly would one differentiate between a composite sword, in the sense that it has been put together from multiple swords over time, as opposed to the composite use of materials in an original part of the sword eg, a composite blade with a harder material on the edge.

Where could I go to buy a sword like that? And what would be the price?

I love it. A lot of swept hilts on rapiers tend to be asymmetrical in the most ocd inducing way possible, but this is clean. The design isn't hiding any glaringly cable management problem ready to jump out at anyone unfortunate enouph to look to close. Why isn't this standard, surely it cant be more difficult/ provide less coverage from other hilt designs?

Sword on a big stick, got it

What's the potential retail price on a pair of these? I'm looking at buying a new fechterspiel, but i could put that off another 2 years for these. :D

I didn't know rapiers came in such short lengths.

I'd like to point out that not all halberd blades were sharp. Especially small concave ones were crushing implements. Many of them had spearpoints that had some cutting capacity to compensate for it. The extreme case has a saber on top. However, there are also some where they have no blade at all. They tend to be quite light and long.

Can you make a video on medieval short swords and why would someone use them? In portuguese "cutelo" means "cleaver", while in spanish "cutillo" simply means knife. Interesting, hugh?

Interesting

File some barbs on the blade & you'll have a fishing spear

Is there a split inside the shaft of the 1st spearhead? Looks like somethings inside.

Where can I get one of those t-shirts?

what type of spear would you consider a compromised design half way in between those 2 ends?

I like spears almost as much as I like axes. Spears and other polearms ruled the battlefield for thousands of years. Thank you and keep up the good work.

The boar spear is a specific hunting implement. From what I've seen, the way it's being used is that the dogs immobilize the boar (possibly wounded boar), then the hunter thrusts from close range. But that's not how people *usually* hunt with a spear nowadays. They tend to throw them from an elevated position, though sometimes from the ground too. For that you'd want a slim head, which will penetrate to the other side. You definitely do not want a huge wide blade with a thick shaft, since it will likely stop before it reaches the vitals. I mean, those "fighting spears" do look like a much more efficient thrown hunting spear. And, as all hunters know, getting close is the most difficult part of hunting, so hoping for a two-handed thrust is not realistic at all. Not without a pack of hunting dogs.

Bonus stupid question for A&A... US is a gun country with a strong hunting tradition. Did anyone ask for a boar spear with the clear intent to use it in hunting? How dangerous is it to go against a boar again? Cuz I would love to hear that there's a party in Minnesota that hunts boars with spears. Unless there's a restriction on the ground that it is making the animal suffer needlessly or something, this could be a thing. A proper and full revival of an old lost art in a way that we will never have when it comes to combat.

The winged spear, with the large original proportions you mentioned, is similar to a partizan. Not the same, as the partizan has a more blade like extension than a spear tip, but they do look similar with the wings/hooks at the base. Winged spears are used for boar hunting. And Italians had a tradition when it came to boars, hunting them, and having them as symbols in their local culture such as in Florence (and in fencing we do have "cinghiale porta di...", e.g. boar gate of the... ). Did anyone propose that the partizan was developed from the hunting winged spear? At this point, it kinda seems obvious to me that this mush have been the case.

2:08 I cannot believe that they copied your spear. You should send them a cease and desist letter. Just search for their email and send it digitally to make it easier on yourself. 😄

Thanks for the video. Do you think that the lesser amount of steel was any factor in the design of the fighting spear tips? As I look at those, I can see that making enough steel to build a broad, thick spearhead for a boar spear for one rich guy might not be a problem. Making every spear head with that much steel when equipping an entire army would be a much bigger problem. I could see where militaries might design their spearheads narrower and shorter so that their smiths could equip more soldiers for the same amount of metal. Along the same lines, can you make the smaller Celtic spears more quickly than you make the big boar spear? If the smiths are equipping an entire army, they will need to be able to produce spearheads quickly so that they can equip more soldiers per day.

Extremely nice and much needed primer on the most important weapon in history👍. However, take a look at the Haunch Wolfegg 'Heerzug' scene you will see several guys in there with winged and toggled boar spears so the line between war spear and hunting spear was blurred, probably because that enormous boar spear has some of the characteristics of a bill or a halberd in that you could chop with it too.