Totally my style! 🤘💀 $4000? Awh man... lol if I won the lottery maybe. Just for fun I made a dream shopping cart on Koa. Two royal armouries swords, an Albion hersir, hanwei basket hilt broadsword, dragon king shi, and a few coldsteel niknaks, and I'm still under budget. And I just ordered stuff that was in Stock. If I was willing to wait a year... sky is the limit with a 4k budget. Beautiful sword though! Fantastic looking piece no doubt about that. I've seen some of his other work and it is gorgeous. But definitely beyond my means right now. Even in theory I don't know if I would spend that on a single piece. But I would consider it. 🤘💀 great review kyle thanks for putting the work in to show us another lesser known maker
Albion Ljubljana, and the original it copies, sword N4516 from National Museum of Slovenia, have "maker's marks", "clover stamps" on both sides of the pommel in similar position as this sword.
Awesome overview! That is one mean warsword. Love that blade and rain chape. Makes one wish they could get into harnischfechten ;-) Great showing from Eric, and nice showcase by you Kyle!
Kudos for helping other makers get exposure. I 100% agree with your conclusion. As someone who is able to own a few albions and lockwoods I just can't fathom what paying x2 their price would do, it just feels like unless you really want your vision to be made manifest going past the 2k mark is diminishing returns (in my experience).
Great Review! The smith had an idea of the type of sword he wanted to make, and it seems like he aced it. That bodes well for commission pieces, being able to take a concept and deliver a very specific sword. Just my two cents anyway. Thank you to Kyle for bringing this smith to our attention. Now I'll have another website to drool over. 😅
Thanks for the review. Re the price ill just add a US maker of one of a kind swords is gonna have to charge more than a maker living in poland to make it viable business.
Not related to the topic of the video per se, but since it was used here... This idea of war vs duel sword is bad in my opinion. I'll credit Shad from Shadiversity for promoting this naming convention (can others contradict me and point me to a historical source?). However, I think it's a bad one. Swords for duels are what? Swords for judicial duels or tournaments. We can have some strange creations for judicial duels compared to most swords we see today (spiked pommels, mid-blade grips, etc). Judicial duels promoted strange weapon pairings, while for tournaments we have swords adapted to be less deadly. The reality is that we have more stab-centric swords, usually with thick diamond profiles, to be employed while half-swording against full-plate (so an anti-armour role). And we have longer, broader blades, with hexagonal or flatter profiles optimised for cutting. These are better at chopping off an exposed arm or leg in an infantry formation composed of peasants that only have a breastplate (so an anti-infantry role). But both would be war swords. In the end, we have the Castillon horde swords, most with diamond profile blades, and we know those were used in a war. Again, the war sword designation is bad in my opinion. I would prefer if people would just say cut-centric or thrust-centric, or maybe anti-infantry or anti-armour focused swords.
Makes sense through winter cutlery is in the US sulowski is in Poland. Surely you can understand why a maker based in the US might need to charge a bit more than a maker based in Poland?
I usually don't care that much for a perfect crossguard fit. So what you show here would be ok for me. However, the idea that it doesn't matter because it would add to the cost for something that you can't see falls apart when the asking price is $4000. You took a good minute or so trying to soften the blow that this is not a sword for you regarding the price (and yeah, I get it, you talked to the man in person). So, as someone who looked at what Winter Cutlery has to offer for a few good years, I'll be blunt. This is not a $4000 sword. The complexity of the sword puts it more at $1000, and only then I would say that this is not a sword for me. More than that you pay for scarcity, or because you like in particular sword-smith as an artist, or due to a factor that is not obvious from the video. It may not sound fair to Winter Cutlery, but it is what a lot of people will think. Naturally, if the sword were what I wanted, I can also see myself paying $4000, but that sword and what I see here would be quite different (as in it would have fine detail that would require a lot of careful work, so I can see where the time went, or silver inlays, antique steel, pattern forge steel, and the sort of things that would justify the $4000 cost).
Hey, everybody has a right to decide what a sword is worth to them. That includes the maker, the reviewer, the potential buyer, and the person who thinks the sword is wildly overpriced. This sword, for me, is not worth the asking price, but I can see how it would be for somebody to whom it strongly appeals. 🙂
@@alientude I'm not disagreeing. I just wanted to make a stronger point and represent the last category in the list you gave for people who get to decide. 😉Mind you, placing the price at $1000 (so high end) recognise this as good work.
Totally my style! 🤘💀 $4000? Awh man... lol if I won the lottery maybe. Just for fun I made a dream shopping cart on Koa. Two royal armouries swords, an Albion hersir, hanwei basket hilt broadsword, dragon king shi, and a few coldsteel niknaks, and I'm still under budget. And I just ordered stuff that was in Stock. If I was willing to wait a year... sky is the limit with a 4k budget.
Beautiful sword though! Fantastic looking piece no doubt about that. I've seen some of his other work and it is gorgeous. But definitely beyond my means right now. Even in theory I don't know if I would spend that on a single piece. But I would consider it.
🤘💀 great review kyle thanks for putting the work in to show us another lesser known maker
Albion Ljubljana, and the original it copies, sword N4516 from National Museum of Slovenia, have "maker's marks", "clover stamps" on both sides of the pommel in similar position as this sword.
Very cool! Wouldn't be surprised if that's where Eric got the idea.
I just finished watching Andy's video of a winter cutlery sword I like the fact that the Smith names his swords and not just by basic type etc
Awesome overview! That is one mean warsword. Love that blade and rain chape. Makes one wish they could get into harnischfechten ;-) Great showing from Eric, and nice showcase by you Kyle!
Kudos for helping other makers get exposure. I 100% agree with your conclusion. As someone who is able to own a few albions and lockwoods I just can't fathom what paying x2 their price would do, it just feels like unless you really want your vision to be made manifest going past the 2k mark is diminishing returns (in my experience).
Great Review! The smith had an idea of the type of sword he wanted to make, and it seems like he aced it. That bodes well for commission pieces, being able to take a concept and deliver a very specific sword. Just my two cents anyway. Thank you to Kyle for bringing this smith to our attention. Now I'll have another website to drool over. 😅
That's a good way to put it!
Great review and an awesome sword. I personally would probably categorise it as an XVIa but that's just me
I could see it as a XVIa as well. It's one of those that could be considered a tweener - something that doesn't quite fit perfectly in any one type.
Thanks for the review. Re the price ill just add a US maker of one of a kind swords is gonna have to charge more than a maker living in poland to make it viable business.
Not related to the topic of the video per se, but since it was used here...
This idea of war vs duel sword is bad in my opinion. I'll credit Shad from Shadiversity for promoting this naming convention (can others contradict me and point me to a historical source?). However, I think it's a bad one.
Swords for duels are what? Swords for judicial duels or tournaments. We can have some strange creations for judicial duels compared to most swords we see today (spiked pommels, mid-blade grips, etc). Judicial duels promoted strange weapon pairings, while for tournaments we have swords adapted to be less deadly.
The reality is that we have more stab-centric swords, usually with thick diamond profiles, to be employed while half-swording against full-plate (so an anti-armour role). And we have longer, broader blades, with hexagonal or flatter profiles optimised for cutting. These are better at chopping off an exposed arm or leg in an infantry formation composed of peasants that only have a breastplate (so an anti-infantry role). But both would be war swords.
In the end, we have the Castillon horde swords, most with diamond profile blades, and we know those were used in a war. Again, the war sword designation is bad in my opinion. I would prefer if people would just say cut-centric or thrust-centric, or maybe anti-infantry or anti-armour focused swords.
All the respect but 4k is 1 valiant armoury sword and possibly 2 albions, all the respect but it’s not worth it
4k? Not when a sulowski is 2 to 3k...
Makes sense through winter cutlery is in the US sulowski is in Poland. Surely you can understand why a maker based in the US might need to charge a bit more than a maker based in Poland?
I usually don't care that much for a perfect crossguard fit. So what you show here would be ok for me. However, the idea that it doesn't matter because it would add to the cost for something that you can't see falls apart when the asking price is $4000.
You took a good minute or so trying to soften the blow that this is not a sword for you regarding the price (and yeah, I get it, you talked to the man in person). So, as someone who looked at what Winter Cutlery has to offer for a few good years, I'll be blunt. This is not a $4000 sword. The complexity of the sword puts it more at $1000, and only then I would say that this is not a sword for me. More than that you pay for scarcity, or because you like in particular sword-smith as an artist, or due to a factor that is not obvious from the video. It may not sound fair to Winter Cutlery, but it is what a lot of people will think. Naturally, if the sword were what I wanted, I can also see myself paying $4000, but that sword and what I see here would be quite different (as in it would have fine detail that would require a lot of careful work, so I can see where the time went, or silver inlays, antique steel, pattern forge steel, and the sort of things that would justify the $4000 cost).
Hey, everybody has a right to decide what a sword is worth to them. That includes the maker, the reviewer, the potential buyer, and the person who thinks the sword is wildly overpriced. This sword, for me, is not worth the asking price, but I can see how it would be for somebody to whom it strongly appeals. 🙂
@@alientude I'm not disagreeing. I just wanted to make a stronger point and represent the last category in the list you gave for people who get to decide. 😉Mind you, placing the price at $1000 (so high end) recognise this as good work.