I actually agree. A man who knows his stuff about actual martial combat, designing fantasy weapons... it's hugely entertaining for the realist and lover of farfetched fantasy in me.
If designed more for mountain climbing, I'd see this as a real tool! --Back hook for rope related tasks --Thicken the blade itself to be able to dig into rocks --Keep the point for stabbing into crevices Hell! Add a retraction mechanic to flip it 180* backwards and you have a free hand!
I was thinking of using it to get over the last few feet of a wall. Sort of get boost from your pals then hook it over and pull yourself up. Or sky-pirates could dual weild when they're diving onto your sails.
I was going to suggest something similar, except instead of synthetic wrap the blade and spike in foam or cloth and do a little light sparring with it.
Fatal flaw, your fingers/knuckles are exposed, id consider a bar that goes over the knuckles and connects the handle to the weapon in a quarter circle, it would be a great addition to the design.
Yeah, but doesn't seem like too fatal of a flaw. The blade itself will normally be between the opponent's weapon and the hand, and it's presumably a weapon you'd use alongside a shield.
I dig this weapon, as a concept, and see possibilities in it, for adapting it into new fantasy weapons. But while in the shower, something struck me, for redesigning it, though I'm willing to bet it'd clash with Canadian weapon laws. First, give it a proper guard, like that of a pata, or maybe a square guard, and have the tang run into the grip, like a punch dagger. Next, for the scythe, replace it with an axe blade, but a concave, or bearded one, so it can still reasonably hook weapons. In fact, you could probably shorten the spike, and make the axe blade extend forward, to a point. Additionally, the axe blade would make for a lot of space to put in lots of decorations, and junk. And you know what you might have? A functioning, usable, more plausible keyblade.
I think what he meant was a straight extension of your forearm. Most weapons are held somewhat rectangular to your forearm instead of being in line with your forearm. The elimination of the wrist joint means that you strike directly from your ellbow which means you get a bit more striking power but you lose a lot of mobility which makes the weapon better at dishing out damage but an awful option for fencing.
All weapons should be a natural extention of your body, but the added hinge from one's wrist is an essential component in efficacious use. Without it you lose a lot of leverage and, possibly even more importantly, fine motor control. As novelties I can get behind some them but in terms of utility I'll take conventional arms any day of the week.
At that point, I'd say it's no longer a Tonfa since it defeats the original purpose of a Tonfa. All the versatility is gone since you designated one point to be bladed------but as a different kind of weapon, it's not bad I guess..
Pedro Vanderlei maybe because they are the trueth? XD even if it would be ripped of, Skall added a huge New lvl to IT with the testing and eddeting. Sorry for the bad spelling, love your Videos Skall keep it going :D
That thing is actually so cool. I'm really picturing it as a very effective thing, since it makes it really easy not to get hit (with 4 places where to hook or trap the opponent's blade) and can capitalize on any kind of opportunity to inflict damage. A lot of people have brought up that knuckle guard detail but in terms of shape and efficiency it's just a really great design!
This is very good combining two of my favourite weapons. I've never thought of that. But I'd rather lose the strap to allow rotation. Also this is a tonfa that is used to be used with unarmed fighting style like boxing, so that it could fight against swords and stuff.
Skall, buddy, we love you, but the thought of you using that thing without a hand guard makes me fear for your fingers. (I am aware he's not dumb enough to actually spar with this thing)
For some reason this thing makes me think of a light infantry specialized to kill heavy infantry. So a buckler in the left hand with this in the right. Hook with scythe, pull shield away, block any counter with buckler then hit with the spike. It makes a weird sense to me with a mechanical pattern of pull, deflect and thrust or cut for the kill
Earth.Otherwise Well, it's sharp and pointy. A theoretical sparing-partner would be in a way more dangerous situation then Skalls fingers. A safe sparing-edition would be really nice, so we can see how Skalls ideas work against different weapons.
GraeYstaG It’s a result of the differential hardening process. Iaido came about as a use for the curvature. If you want to talk about katana aesthetics, you really want to talk about their hilts. There’s one part under the wrapping that’s just detrimentally placed
This was a really cool weapon! I'd definitely want a hand guard on that though. And maybe changing the angle/curve of the scythe blade would make it easier to pull out?
“He got me,” Skallagrimr said of Skallagrim's retorts. “That f**king Skallagrim boomed me.” Skallagrimr added, “He’s so good,” repeating it four times. He then said he wanted to add the Tonfa Scythe to the list of weapons he works out with this summer.
The two issues I see with that is trying to drive the tine thrugh the wood without spliting it too badly without any drilling equiment avalible to you. The other is that the way you would use it would act to drive the antler out of the wood and not into it. The only good solution I have is to embed the antler into the branch whilst its still alive. Alow the tree to grow around it and then cut it. In much the same way as the famus WW1 bicycal embeded in a tree.
Just gotta say, Skal, I'm really liking the new angle you've taken for chatting about weapons. The whole "arguing with myself" thing is actually pretty funny.
I taught Ruykyu-ru kobujitsu and the tong-fa was one of my favourite weapons. Your fantasy design is a great hand extension of a sort of pole arm "carbine". My personal tong-fa were fasioned by my brother after he saw me demonstrated the classic ipon kumite with a pair of the police version. What he came up with was fashioned from the center section of two Louisville slugger white ash baseball bats cut about an inch thick with handles made from one inch thick LEXAN rod capped with wooden knobs (mordus and tennon joint). The part of the tong-fa that impressed him most was not what could be done with it as a punch augmented thrust, but rather its potential as a spinning centrifugal force weapon...and his prototype is a superb example of that. Re-visit your design but instead of making it an elaborate punch augmentation make the nasty part more like the blade of a propeller to fit as a fend off/pare bar on your forearm and make it to spin and return there by balance and length...never mind attaching it to your arm...you are missing more than half the potential of the tong-fa.
Adam Di'Cristofaro you probably wouldn't want to catch anyblades on a guard such as that due to the angle your arm bends at preventing you from deflecting it well enough. Probably best to parry using the part that straps to your outer arm
This looks great! Regardless of its praticality, you can really see that you just woke up someday and thought "how much mechanical advantage can I get within a single weapon?". That's an engineer's dream weapon right there - maximum efficiency at delivering mechanical energy. I kind of wish that you also made an synthetic, somewhat sparring-ready version (I don't think it's possible to make a version of this safe for full-contact, full speed sparring due to its very nature as a high-energy weapon) and tried it out. I bet it could work surpringly well, specially with a shield.
Really cool design. The one change I'd make is to do something different with the back hook. The shape of it means the only direction of binding the enemy's weapon is towards your torso. You can't really rotate your arm to bind it away from you. I'd maybe angle it forward rather than back, or possibly even "outward" so that it seems to be angle out and to the right of you as you're facing the weapon. This would make the 3 edges come out forming the corner of a cube shape, and allow you to bind across your body and then essentially backhand the enemy with a short pick.
Man! I was imagining quite similar design too! And I like your implementation! Perhaps I would like to add some "guard" to defend fingers but it should be really rare case :D Thanks for the vid and desing!
Quite brutal weapon, I like the overall design and how you addressed the viability and nitpicks.A followup with a practice version would be interesting to see how effective it can be against other weapon types.Or even another design to effectively counter it!
I like your design. twisting flat bar to make the scythe blade was a good idea that minimizes the amount of material needed. I have two suggestions: #1 attach the straps with "ears" that you can bend up towards your arm. This would prevent a blade sliding down during a parry from slicing the straps off, and would make the straps more effective due to the angle change. #2 make a dummy practice version and spar with it at Blood and Iron. You might decide that you want to change something or you might decide that it is perfect the way it is. Cheers.
It's really nice to see you being able to test custom fantasy designs, be they good or not. As for this one, definitely feels weird to me, the shape, and especially the tonfa style handle and the straps, since a tonfa is made to rotate in your hand to account for various situations. Very first thing I thought when watching the video here was "if the ennemy can grab the weapon, that's a broken arm or wrist". When hooked though, I can see the handle giving you a strenght advantage. In combat, I would probably use this along with a parrying dagger in the off hand, so if you hook the ennemi weapon or even body, you can pull him into even closer range or prevent him from going away, and then go with the dagger to finish him. The parrying dagger would also be nice to cover your off side a bit, for you, parrying on the left side might be harder than on the right side. It would be nice to test those things against blades and axes.
I love the "new" character you took there! You should do these kind of skits more often or rather, keep that character! Like boogie does it with francis, this could be your alter ego, its pretty funny.
I'm afraid I don't watch all your videos, Skal, but I'm subscribed and I try to watch them when I get time. Awesome weapon. Also, the little repartee with yourself (sorry, your evil twin (must maintain the act)) was really well done. I haven't seen you do that before but a lot of people do it badly.
I remember being completely underwhelmed by your last "fantasy sword" (the messer-saber-something hybrid with the tiny off-center decoration), which was about as fantastic as a butter knife. This is a quite original design, good work. It has a few practical issues, like not being able to spin like a tonfa or even change the angle of the blade, and being strapped to your arm. More importantly, it would look far better with a blade instead of a spike, which could be connected with a more flowing outline (and other aesthetical improvements). The point is, this is the first of your designs where I'd have no trouble giving a (slightly improved) version a special place in a fantasy setting. Congratulations. P. S. For an improved version, aside from aesthetic improvements, maybe try experimenting with a half-circle that locks on your elbow in all directions but one, similar to the handles you would find on modern crutches. Maybe you can fit it in a way that the muscles in the forearm shift to hold or slip through the grip depending on the angle of your wrist.
Been subscribed to your channel since back in 2008. Have always loved your reviews of products. Always enjoy it when you and Cara team up for a review and we get more than one person's point of view. Like the one about the chain mail shirt. As always, you are doing a great job! I don't comment often, so I just wanted to say thanks for doing reviews where you put the steel through the types of tests that a regular Joe on the street would try out. You're one of the few on TH-cam that doesn't come at it with an attitude of " I'm an expert so you schmucks should listen to what I think". Keep up the good work and, as always, Semper Fi !!
The only thing I would change on it (aside from what was mentioned in the video) would be to add more of a contour to the brace portion so it's more comfortable to wear. This would also add more deflective properties to the overall design.
Your secondary hook should be a sword breaker lattice, and the hook should be before the straps (as they can clearly be cut which could disarm you in one go); perhaps a spike on the elbow. Besides the basic function of those parts, the entire length could be more ergonomic, to increase the work efficiency of all attacks/parries. Anything past that would be like re-attachable/retractable ends to the forearm base to make it as useful/sexy as possible. It's a good start for a scythed halberd fist weapon (which would be more pokey than axey). Interesting idea!
Hey Skall, what you dreamed up there is really close to the ancient Chinese weapon known as the Ji, which was the next step up from the Ge, also known as the "dagger axe". They had halberd length versions of course, but it wasn't unusual for short hafted versions to be used of both the Ge and Ji. The Ji initially came about by adding a socketed spear head to the haft of the Ge, with later versions being made with the spear point already part of the blade of the Ji. Looks pretty effective in your testing too, neat concept with the side handle aside from the limitations that you pointed out.
This is an odd weapon but it has its good points, and its a design for fun, also skal love your new editing style its so much more fun and you can see the effort that goes into it
Skall is on to that next-level Gladiator Strats, jeez. It's almost like someone had a billhook or something... Ended up breaking the shaft, and instead of replacing it, got the mad idea to strap the blade to their arm. I kind of want to see this thing slapped on a normal grip, or maybe a sort of axe handle. It'd be like... *THE KAMA 2.0!* 10:39 I was thinking that sharpening the outside edge to turn missed thrusts into a chop or cut would be a good idea... Then I noticed the gash on the dummy, and you explained that you already done diddly done that very thing! You sneaky bastard, you done been time-travellin' to read by future mind again, haven't you! Daggumit Skal!
John : Is that legal ?
Skall : I will make it legal .
This is the best comment.
This is gold!
I heard it in the voices and even saw Skall wearing the robes when I read that!!!! Holy crap, that was amazing! Thank you, thank you so much!
Imed Meghraoui loopholes
Says guy who has guns i dont think push dagger is more lethal than a gun
Can your evil clone do a katana review?
Oh please
I approve!
Ha ha.. that will be awsome!!!
Katana bashing has gotten boring already.
@@TheBlackfall234 the evil cline would obviously praise it
Design more fantasy weapons! These are great!
make a pommel that so huge and it can shoot laser beam to devastated a planet.
wait I think it's already been done in some movie
My favrotie kind of vid he does.
Irugel Gumiho, Imagine light saber pommel that jedi throw using force.
I actually agree. A man who knows his stuff about actual martial combat, designing fantasy weapons... it's hugely entertaining for the realist and lover of farfetched fantasy in me.
this particular piece was horrible
If designed more for mountain climbing, I'd see this as a real tool!
--Back hook for rope related tasks
--Thicken the blade itself to be able to dig into rocks
--Keep the point for stabbing into crevices
Hell! Add a retraction mechanic to flip it 180* backwards and you have a free hand!
I like the way you think
I was thinking of using it to get over the last few feet of a wall. Sort of get boost from your pals then hook it over and pull yourself up. Or sky-pirates could dual weild when they're diving onto your sails.
That's some Bionicle shit.
That's a weird thing i like it, probably a great zombie defence weapon!
This is a great design for someone who lost a hand just replace the handle with somethin else
Merle could have used this. (walking dead)
I'd be interested to see a synthetic version so you can try sparring with it. see how effective it is.
krulty yes please
Oh God, please
That would be cool
That would be cool
I was going to suggest something similar, except instead of synthetic wrap the blade and spike in foam or cloth and do a little light sparring with it.
You should try making Prince Zuko's two in one swords from Avatar: the last airbender or at least talk about its viability and practicality.
Fatal flaw, your fingers/knuckles are exposed, id consider a bar that goes over the knuckles and connects the handle to the weapon in a quarter circle, it would be a great addition to the design.
I actually had a knuckle guard in the original design but it was already difficult enough to make, and I didn't want to complicate it even further.
Wearing a steel gauntlet would work, too. The guard would be better but hey, gauntlets look really cool!
Elu screw gauntlets, they're annoying to wear, pimp rings for the win!
Skallagrim Just wear a Ring of +8 defence. That will work.
Yeah, but doesn't seem like too fatal of a flaw. The blade itself will normally be between the opponent's weapon and the hand, and it's presumably a weapon you'd use alongside a shield.
The unholy spawn between a scythe, a halberd and a katar
Love it :0
We should make an rpg board game entirely based on Skall's and Shad's ideas on fantasy weapons and warfare.
Lorenzo Giani maybe a d&d style game
Do I get bonus dice when rolling for defense when I yell Machicolations!!! While sitting in my castle?
You're gonna need some *context* for that game, too.
And I forgot Metatron!
Matteus Silvestre
Lol, yeah
Would it work alongside a shield or should one just go full weeb and dual wield two of those?
probably use a Shield of some type. Normie human brains can not think fast enough to dual wield properly
Matteus Silvestre idk why you would use a shield with this instead of a parrying dagger.
Might as well full weeb it ...
Come to think of it, a dedicated parrying tonfa sounds like a reasonably good idea.
Never go full weeb
It might be too long to dual wield.
I dig this weapon, as a concept, and see possibilities in it, for adapting it into new fantasy weapons. But while in the shower, something struck me, for redesigning it, though I'm willing to bet it'd clash with Canadian weapon laws.
First, give it a proper guard, like that of a pata, or maybe a square guard, and have the tang run into the grip, like a punch dagger. Next, for the scythe, replace it with an axe blade, but a concave, or bearded one, so it can still reasonably hook weapons. In fact, you could probably shorten the spike, and make the axe blade extend forward, to a point. Additionally, the axe blade would make for a lot of space to put in lots of decorations, and junk.
And you know what you might have?
A functioning, usable, more plausible keyblade.
Sort of like a katar mixed with a bardiche. I'm a firm believer that all weapons could use some more bardiche in them.
I laughed my fluffing ass off at the evil twin sketch good work man 🖒
What the phantom meanace did you make Skallagrim, a Halberd+Fist weapon?
I hereby Christine it Hooker.
madcat789 my first thought when seeing it was halberd mini. For you can have the spikes of a polearm, but with none of the reach.
My thoughts exactly, though I like the above comment comparing it to a bill hook.
@bily jacon What's a "halbard", a medieval minstrel with a contrabass lute?
Now Skall needs a second Khatar-Tonfa-Scythe-Weapon to double wield and BOOM Skall as a Dynasty Warriors or Warriors Orochi 4 character.
"Now get the fluff out of here or I'll donate your liver to a 60 year-old alcoholic"
Sounds like me in most games
Surprised you didn't include some kind of knuckle guard.
No illegal knives in Texas, just sayin, we got plenty of room for you down here
Reagan Branham Kinda hot down there though lol
One of my regulars at the Taco Bell I work at has on multiple occasions came in with his replica Frostmourne. Totally legal.
But you also live near to the equator, making you fire country. The likes of us burst into flames when we step into fire country.
And open carry swords
Well, other than ballistic knives.
All weapons that are a literal extension of your arm look wonky when swung.
Saberlaser Tiger Losing the wrist joint has that effect, it limits your finese with the weapon.
#SkallNoShirt
Aren't all melee weapons an extension of the arm?
I think what he meant was a straight extension of your forearm. Most weapons are held somewhat rectangular to your forearm instead of being in line with your forearm. The elimination of the wrist joint means that you strike directly from your ellbow which means you get a bit more striking power but you lose a lot of mobility which makes the weapon better at dishing out damage but an awful option for fencing.
All weapons should be a natural extention of your body, but the added hinge from one's wrist is an essential component in efficacious use. Without it you lose a lot of leverage and, possibly even more importantly, fine motor control. As novelties I can get behind some them but in terms of utility I'll take conventional arms any day of the week.
a scythe? A SCYTHE??? You are planning on murdering fields of wheat???
FANTASY weapon
Elias Ivan Ruiz Diaz Aatrox
there are military scythes
No. Just console peasants.
Paweł Kuźmiński i know c:
I really like that every of your videos is different than others specially in terms of comedy. Yet You are always very informative. Keep good Job Man!
This got really weird really quick
I like it, lets see where this goes!!!
At that point, I'd say it's no longer a Tonfa since it defeats the original purpose of a Tonfa. All the versatility is gone since you designated one point to be bladed------but as a different kind of weapon, it's not bad I guess..
Shadiversity made similar points on one of the underrated weapons video about wrist attached weapons
Pedro Vanderlei yeah but this clearly took him a while and shad only just made that video. I don't think it's on purpose.
Shitdiversity
Pedro Vanderlei maybe because they are the trueth? XD even if it would be ripped of, Skall added a huge New lvl to IT with the testing and eddeting.
Sorry for the bad spelling, love your Videos Skall keep it going :D
HuntinGG for the love of god,go fuck yaself lassie
But shad is irrelevant because he just sits in his chair and doesn't actually do anything. His opinions
That thing is actually so cool. I'm really picturing it as a very effective thing, since it makes it really easy not to get hit (with 4 places where to hook or trap the opponent's blade) and can capitalize on any kind of opportunity to inflict damage. A lot of people have brought up that knuckle guard detail but in terms of shape and efficiency it's just a really great design!
So far.....
Do a pommel sword. It's a sword.....MADE ENTIRELY OUT OF POMMELS.
The Third Crusader
It's called "mace"
Although I think I'll start calling maces "pommel swords"
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That’s too much power
Aldor no
13:12 "Alright, I'll talk!!!"
Yay, the evil clone is back!
You are dumb. Meh.
You fight like a dairy farmer.
This is very good combining two of my favourite weapons. I've never thought of that. But I'd rather lose the strap to allow rotation.
Also this is a tonfa that is used to be used with unarmed fighting style like boxing, so that it could fight against swords and stuff.
Uuuuuuuuh
Can we get more of evil chipmunk Skall?
Jason Alcatraz I second this
Jason Alcatraz I third this
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Mirgallaks
Looks like something an alien would use. Like something from Star Trek.
If Star Trek was cool. Or more cool, whatewer.
Star Trek was known for its VERY practical bladed weapons
basically one-handed bill hook
Rob and thats exactly why I like it ...
DUAL BILL HOOKS !
Rob I knew it resembled something, but I forgot about the billhook
looks halfway effective. but i would say calling it a tonfa is a misnomer. tonfa suggests it could be swung around the handle
james seamaj If you don't use the straps you CAN, it'd just be awkward as hell
Skall, buddy, we love you, but the thought of you using that thing without a hand guard makes me fear for your fingers. (I am aware he's not dumb enough to actually spar with this thing)
Gloves/gauntlets?
i dont think he made it with that in mind but thats something to think about when designing things
For some reason this thing makes me think of a light infantry specialized to kill heavy infantry. So a buckler in the left hand with this in the right. Hook with scythe, pull shield away, block any counter with buckler then hit with the spike. It makes a weird sense to me with a mechanical pattern of pull, deflect and thrust or cut for the kill
Earth.Otherwise Well, it's sharp and pointy. A theoretical sparing-partner would be in a way more dangerous situation then Skalls fingers. A safe sparing-edition would be really nice, so we can see how Skalls ideas work against different weapons.
He said the original design did have a hand guard but it just further complicated the construction process
Aestethics are somewhat important since it's a theory that the catana's curved shape has less of a physical combat function and more of a visual one.
GraeYstaG It’s a result of the differential hardening process. Iaido came about as a use for the curvature. If you want to talk about katana aesthetics, you really want to talk about their hilts. There’s one part under the wrapping that’s just detrimentally placed
Nice
Now I’m gonna add this to my DND games
This was a really cool weapon! I'd definitely want a hand guard on that though. And maybe changing the angle/curve of the scythe blade would make it easier to pull out?
No pommel....
I can no longer say that I’m subbed to you, nor can I say that I’m proud of you.
Just attach some pommels near the hand to protect it and replace the back spike with a pommel. The ultimate attack and defense.
Im so glad Lax showed up. Extremely good job on the editing Skall. Thank you for taking the time to make this. It realy made my morning.👍
Where's the pommel?
JackSpackProductions Between the eyes of an Oger ended rightly.
The way it's designed, Skall is the Pommel.
“He got me,” Skallagrimr said of Skallagrim's retorts. “That f**king Skallagrim boomed me.” Skallagrimr added, “He’s so good,” repeating it four times. He then said he wanted to add the Tonfa Scythe to the list of weapons he works out with this summer.
If you took a quater staff and attached an antler tine to it as a pick would it be effective? Could it be made with stone age technology?
Antony Mash The material was used as a spearhead, so I guess your concept will work
sounds a lot like a more primitive version of the european bronze age "halberd" and/or the chinese ji or ge
The problem would be trying to fix it to the shaft without it breaking.
Why not take the main part of the antler, trim off the tines and branches, and put it through a hole in the shaft?
The two issues I see with that is trying to drive the tine thrugh the wood without spliting it too badly without any drilling equiment avalible to you. The other is that the way you would use it would act to drive the antler out of the wood and not into it.
The only good solution I have is to embed the antler into the branch whilst its still alive. Alow the tree to grow around it and then cut it. In much the same way as the famus WW1 bicycal embeded in a tree.
I love seeing your original designs realized. Keep it up!
Would that be an effective offhand weapon. Like use that in your left while holding a sword in the right
I´m just loving the new flavour you are giving to your videos. Keep it up the good job!!!
Kind of like a Chinese Ji. Would go well with a shield.
Just gotta say, Skal, I'm really liking the new angle you've taken for chatting about weapons. The whole "arguing with myself" thing is actually pretty funny.
Wondering when Skall will end llackS rightly
I only just realized llaks name was skall backwards
I love this bizarre design I could definitely see it working like a gladius in a phalanx. Itd be immensely effective when used with a sheild.
Man you going to make them change there law so it says has a point and edge and blade and and.
I taught Ruykyu-ru kobujitsu and the tong-fa was one of my favourite weapons. Your fantasy design is a great hand extension of a sort of pole arm "carbine".
My personal tong-fa were fasioned by my brother after he saw me demonstrated the classic ipon kumite with a pair of the police version. What he came up with was fashioned from the center section of two Louisville slugger white ash baseball bats cut about an inch thick with handles made from one inch thick LEXAN rod capped with wooden knobs (mordus and tennon joint).
The part of the tong-fa that impressed him most was not what could be done with it as a punch augmented thrust, but rather its potential as a spinning centrifugal force weapon...and his prototype is a superb example of that.
Re-visit your design but instead of making it an elaborate punch augmentation make the nasty part more like the blade of a propeller to fit as a fend off/pare bar on your forearm and make it to spin and return there by balance and length...never mind attaching it to your arm...you are missing more than half the potential of the tong-fa.
13:25
PAC MAN
Haha love the evil twin scenes they're so amusing. Love the humour!
Good video great weapon Skall
You've made an arm mounted halberd. Neat.
I really enjoyed the twin argument, very funny :D
Great work on this video man
i was wondering could you have a small guard attached to the handle just above your hand or would it hamper your movement
Adam Di'Cristofaro you probably wouldn't want to catch anyblades on a guard such as that due to the angle your arm bends at preventing you from deflecting it well enough. Probably best to parry using the part that straps to your outer arm
that makes sense . never thought of how it could catch on to things either . i think your right parrying would be better done on the other side
Idk if anyones said anything about this but that was actually a really well timed acting session with yourself especially as one uncut scene
looks like it wouldn't make a bad head for a pole weapon
That's just a Lucerne/Halberd at that point
Well, I was trying to find an interesting, unique (and cool) weapon for use in a fantasy type setting. Think I’ve found it now!
Okay... Can someone please notify Lindybeige that is little raygun has some side-effects :-/ Anyway nifty little hybrid-weapon there :-)
widgren87 what did I miss pls explain
There was a Lindybeige video with intrusion of Skall. Lindy got annoyed and shot him with his raygun, desintegrating Skall. It was fun.
Do you have a link? I haven't seen that one.
Sorry, no.
Hey, I found it!
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Also the other way:
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Man, the way that thing shines at 3:24, and 13:26 looks awesome.
The frak
A Salamander at heart With flamers for days meltas >>> flamers
Unless its Nids, which the Salamanders wouldn’t fight effectively since muh civilians
A Salamander at heart With flamers for days the frik
This looks great! Regardless of its praticality, you can really see that you just woke up someday and thought "how much mechanical advantage can I get within a single weapon?". That's an engineer's dream weapon right there - maximum efficiency at delivering mechanical energy.
I kind of wish that you also made an synthetic, somewhat sparring-ready version (I don't think it's possible to make a version of this safe for full-contact, full speed sparring due to its very nature as a high-energy weapon) and tried it out. I bet it could work surpringly well, specially with a shield.
This looks like some African weapons.
which ones?
Specifically the kpinga
Ah, I see what you were you're coming from
Really cool design. The one change I'd make is to do something different with the back hook. The shape of it means the only direction of binding the enemy's weapon is towards your torso. You can't really rotate your arm to bind it away from you. I'd maybe angle it forward rather than back, or possibly even "outward" so that it seems to be angle out and to the right of you as you're facing the weapon. This would make the 3 edges come out forming the corner of a cube shape, and allow you to bind across your body and then essentially backhand the enemy with a short pick.
Looks like it would be entertaining to watch someone fight with this though, imagine someone dual wielding them lul.
Sheldon Moobo in full weeb attire no less
I HAVE THE POWER OF SKALL AND ANIME ON MY SIDE
Skall, your goatee is *LEGENDARY!* I'm so jealous! Also, I name you the King of Loopholes!!!
Come to america, then make whatever u want
Seth Randall Texas has sword open carry cuts who would bring a sword to a gun fight
EradWir this guy apparently
You do understand what land mass America is? He's already here bro.
Basp2005 but he is in a more cold, northern, and liberal America
Gabe Merritt ha
That skit is like when you got insulted and obsess over thr perfect comeback for thr next few hours...oh and it sounds so cool in your head.
Your mother was a goat, and your father smelt of elderberries! Now go 'way or I shall taunt you a second time!
You're almost at 1 million subs!!!!!! Well deserved, Skall.
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Love this, been wanting to make a fantasy tonfa design but know so little about them! And love the argument skit even more!
Nice thingy you got here, daddy
Aldor hell naw
Man! I was imagining quite similar design too! And I like your implementation! Perhaps I would like to add some "guard" to defend fingers but it should be really rare case :D Thanks for the vid and desing!
As effective as it might be it is ugly AF.
composite back-and-forthing with yourself is famously very hard to do convincingly. You are good at it, brother :D
What.the.fuck
Oooh Skall my man I really liked the sword sheathing sound effects in the intro it gave me flashbacks menus in old games hahaha
Quite brutal weapon, I like the overall design and how you addressed the viability and nitpicks.A followup with a practice version would be interesting to see how effective it can be against other weapon types.Or even another design to effectively counter it!
I like your design. twisting flat bar to make the scythe blade was a good idea that minimizes the amount of material needed. I have two suggestions: #1 attach the straps with "ears" that you can bend up towards your arm. This would prevent a blade sliding down during a parry from slicing the straps off, and would make the straps more effective due to the angle change. #2 make a dummy practice version and spar with it at Blood and Iron. You might decide that you want to change something or you might decide that it is perfect the way it is. Cheers.
It's really nice to see you being able to test custom fantasy designs, be they good or not. As for this one, definitely feels weird to me, the shape, and especially the tonfa style handle and the straps, since a tonfa is made to rotate in your hand to account for various situations. Very first thing I thought when watching the video here was "if the ennemy can grab the weapon, that's a broken arm or wrist". When hooked though, I can see the handle giving you a strenght advantage.
In combat, I would probably use this along with a parrying dagger in the off hand, so if you hook the ennemi weapon or even body, you can pull him into even closer range or prevent him from going away, and then go with the dagger to finish him. The parrying dagger would also be nice to cover your off side a bit, for you, parrying on the left side might be harder than on the right side. It would be nice to test those things against blades and axes.
I love the "new" character you took there!
You should do these kind of skits more often or rather, keep that character!
Like boogie does it with francis, this could be your alter ego, its pretty funny.
I'm afraid I don't watch all your videos, Skal, but I'm subscribed and I try to watch them when I get time. Awesome weapon. Also, the little repartee with yourself (sorry, your evil twin (must maintain the act)) was really well done. I haven't seen you do that before but a lot of people do it badly.
the evil twin part literally made my day... also its hard to breathe considering you were technically roasting yourself... XD
I remember being completely underwhelmed by your last "fantasy sword" (the messer-saber-something hybrid with the tiny off-center decoration), which was about as fantastic as a butter knife.
This is a quite original design, good work. It has a few practical issues, like not being able to spin like a tonfa or even change the angle of the blade, and being strapped to your arm. More importantly, it would look far better with a blade instead of a spike, which could be connected with a more flowing outline (and other aesthetical improvements).
The point is, this is the first of your designs where I'd have no trouble giving a (slightly improved) version a special place in a fantasy setting. Congratulations.
P. S. For an improved version, aside from aesthetic improvements, maybe try experimenting with a half-circle that locks on your elbow in all directions but one, similar to the handles you would find on modern crutches. Maybe you can fit it in a way that the muscles in the forearm shift to hold or slip through the grip depending on the angle of your wrist.
Been subscribed to your channel since back in 2008. Have always loved your reviews of products. Always enjoy it when you and Cara team up for a review and we get more than one person's point of view. Like the one about the chain mail shirt. As always, you are doing a great job! I don't comment often, so I just wanted to say thanks for doing reviews where you put the steel through the types of tests that a regular Joe on the street would try out. You're one of the few on TH-cam that doesn't come at it with an attitude of " I'm an expert so you schmucks should listen to what I think". Keep up the good work and, as always, Semper Fi !!
If you were able to have the blade parallel wow that would be insane. Excellent!
The only thing I would change on it (aside from what was mentioned in the video) would be to add more of a contour to the brace portion so it's more comfortable to wear. This would also add more deflective properties to the overall design.
Your secondary hook should be a sword breaker lattice, and the hook should be before the straps (as they can clearly be cut which could disarm you in one go); perhaps a spike on the elbow. Besides the basic function of those parts, the entire length could be more ergonomic, to increase the work efficiency of all attacks/parries. Anything past that would be like re-attachable/retractable ends to the forearm base to make it as useful/sexy as possible. It's a good start for a scythed halberd fist weapon (which would be more pokey than axey). Interesting idea!
Hey Skall, what you dreamed up there is really close to the ancient Chinese weapon known as the Ji, which was the next step up from the Ge, also known as the "dagger axe". They had halberd length versions of course, but it wasn't unusual for short hafted versions to be used of both the Ge and Ji. The Ji initially came about by adding a socketed spear head to the haft of the Ge, with later versions being made with the spear point already part of the blade of the Ji. Looks pretty effective in your testing too, neat concept with the side handle aside from the limitations that you pointed out.
You arguing with yourself made my day... so much... ... I can't... can't stop giggling.
A hugely cool looking weapon with an interesting application, very nice design.
An epic video!!!! Love the Skall vs Skall banter!
This is an odd weapon but it has its good points, and its a design for fun, also skal love your new editing style its so much more fun and you can see the effort that goes into it
Skall is on to that next-level Gladiator Strats, jeez. It's almost like someone had a billhook or something...
Ended up breaking the shaft, and instead of replacing it, got the mad idea to strap the blade to their arm.
I kind of want to see this thing slapped on a normal grip, or maybe a sort of axe handle. It'd be like... *THE KAMA 2.0!*
10:39 I was thinking that sharpening the outside edge to turn missed thrusts into a chop or cut would be a good idea...
Then I noticed the gash on the dummy, and you explained that you already done diddly done that very thing!
You sneaky bastard, you done been time-travellin' to read by future mind again, haven't you! Daggumit Skal!
I would love to see tests done with modern clothing on the gel torso. Something like a sweater layered over a t-shirt.