TOP QUALITY REPLICA Medieval Swords & Scabbards
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ต.ค. 2024
- Looking at some high end medieval sword scabbards made by Matt J R Lewis ( / siege_perilous ) and also two top quality replica medieval swords.
Gaël Fabre Swords - www.gaelfabre....
Mateusz Sulowski Swords - sulowskiswords...
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I’m not sure who won the “who’s more British competition” but it was top tier performances on both sides
*Tea and biscuits were harmed in the making of this production
Nice to see my XVIIIc sword in such great video !!!😃
Lovely Chape , a skill on its own to carve out of wax, really happy to see more UK scabbard makers ,can see me sending some work Matts way
Wow he does absolutely beautiful work!!! The details on the scabbards is incredible.
That was brilliant! What talent and imagination (meant in the best way possible). I am in total awe…😮
This is my favorite duo on the internet!!!!
You can stamp after dying but you do run a small risk of scuffing the dyed finish or showing tiny stretch marks which in the stamped area. In my opinion it looks better if you die after stamping and tooling. You get more a uniform look And if a little extra pools in the stand areas it makes that stamping pop. I would recommend only stamping after dying leather as a way to bring existing stamping back if the item has been used or worn for a period of time.
Yeah essentially everything said to stamp onto the undyed leather so that's what I have always done.
Yep. And if you use a water based dye (and most are) then re-wetting the leather can change the colour if you do a light colour. It's doable either way, but better (or more reliable) results stamping then dying. And for the lurkers, stramping works on Veg Tan leather, and really badly on chrome tanned
The laminated design is brilliant.
A genuine eccentric. Like his sense of humor. Damn Matt wanted that arming sword.
Gorgeous, and the weapons aren't bad either ;)
Beat me to it
Yessss XVIIIc my preferred type of sword Sir… I have also the Alexandria and the Principe… best in funny moment and Cutting….❤❤❤❤
Thanks for this super video and see you soon I Hope in the channel! Thanks👊🏻🙏🏻🗡️
Really nice craftsmanship.
That Alexandria sword would not look out of place in the upcoming Eragon series.
Looks like pure fantasy!
Love an Alexandrian sword. It looks like the storybook icon, or what a child would imagine a sword to be. Both are beautiful, and those scabbards are truly gorgeous. If I was in the market I'd be after one from him. A pair of lovely projects that have come out truly grand.
Magnificent work!
These scabbards are amazing! It's lovely to see such a unique craft and listen to people who do it with passion
yeah, I got lucky and bought a Sulowski sword pre-owned at like half price from original.
It's AMAZING.
A beautiful type XVIIIc with gorgeous leatherwork & a slender blade that rings like an empty wineglass when striking milk cartons.
Wow factor 10!... totally hand made stuff is so cool.
Matt Lewis: "I got a bit better."
Me: Yeah, and Eiffel got a bit better at structural design. Epic workmanship!
I love this guy! Fantastic attention to detail in this gorgeous work, and hilariously blunt in answering questions! Super inspiring, in all honesty! Beautiful stuff, Matt! Well done :)
Those are some great scabbards.
"Anything is a stamp!". Awesome.
I made new business cards with a potato when my number changed. I hand wrote my new number. As I paint pictures people fawned over them.🤣
Drooling over here, across the Pond... 🤤
Superb scabbard work!
🍻Fantastic swords and scabbards. Thanks for sharing these.
Really brilliant work on the swords and scabbards; really impressed with the level of craftmanship.
On a side note; I think they may be the shortest "scholagladiatoria" introduction pronunciation you made so far, Matt :-P
Wow im in wow as I watched it, what a craftsman and beautiful scabbards and finished product, absolutely stunning 😮 I love such detail on leather as I spent 7 years working for companies that embossed leather and made leather goods, still I don’t have the skills to even attempt to make scabbard like that , much much respect as I know how much time and work and effort goes into one finished product! 😎👍 love it!😎
Lovely work.
Great to see you here buddy!
please make a video about the Castillon hoard swords, just glancing over the story and content of the find it seams a perfect topic to talk about different swords in use at the same or atleast a simular ocasion seeing that noone would just carry around 80 swords...
Absolutely beautiful work....
That is beautiful work!
Wow! These are beautiful weapons!
Lovely scabbards
that sulo XVIII c is what im wanting so bad haha, i do have a custom (possibly first ever made) XVIIIc from Valiant Armoury and love that but a Sulo would be the ultimate dream for me. and then of course with one of your scabbards haha
Two gorgeous girls, sheathed in two gorgeous scabbards!
Some fantastic swords. Thank you.
Hah, I totally understand. It's nearly impossible to describe how to do a thing when half of it is art.
Here's the parts, now put them together, but that's only a little part of what goes on.
From what I can see, you've ended up with everything you could want, function and beauty.
Beautiful work, I make the leather sheaths for the knives I make and they are so far from the quality of those scabbards it's frightening!
Both of those “rigs” are amazing!😮.
I have an original Michael “Tinker”Pearce Sword from late 1997 that has a “functional” leather scabbard that Tinker made for it, but I’ve been thinking about having Christian Fletcher make a period correct scabbard for it or even having a go at it myself😅.
Although I've never handled or purchased his stuff before, I've always admired Christian Fletcher's work, especially his LOTR offerings.
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Yeah he does nice work.
Really nice video thank you for showing us the swords ⚔️ keep up the great work
In a zombie apocalypse I'd definitely use the ridiculous one cuz most people don't wear armor and with this beast you'd carve through zombies like butter
Making a vid comparison for the best budget long sword will be much appreciated
Whenever I see such swords, I have to think of cake lifters.
Off course beautiful work and exceptionally well made scabbards.
I personally started working on my first scabbard on Friday. It's really some wicked work involved. I personally will not add tooling to the leather this time. The shape of my sword did not make it possible to clamp the two halves together to make a snugg fit so the sword hat a bit of movement. I think I can fix it by adding a bit of additional linen cloth to the mouth oth the scabbard but I have to cut it out first and see how it fits.
Im learning. So far ive made 2 scabbards for myself & im working on another now.
Very nice. I sent my Albion Kingmaker to DBK for a custom fitted scabbard and belt in a dark reddish brown leather slightly weathered metal fittings, and it came out fantastically. It enhances the aesthetics of the sword for sure.
DBK does amazing work!!
Made a comment don't see it maybe because of link. Very nice especially the vax casting. I also do scabbards since a while back. But I use poplar slats for the core. Then carve the grove for the sword, wool liner. Hand plaining the outside. Actually get decnt results. Enough that folks have bought a few of me. Lots of fun. Would love to try some casting. Right now piced up flintnapping though so 1 thing at the time.
From hence forth, these swords shall be know as...wide boys!
I think the kids write it wydbois.
*Wide Boi's
Well done..
Similar story to my own- decided to try my hand at making scabbards for much the same reasons. Mine are pretty good but and very functional but not quite as fancy as these. These are amazing!
I use poplar slats rather than birch ply and carve the blade out of each half. Also lined in wool then glued, shaped, covered ect.
Sadly I'm stuck with buying the hardware though.
Also have to add- at least the way I do them at any given point its easy to ruin the whole thing. I probably have a one to one or higher attrition rate where somewhere along the way I threw the project out for some reason and started over. Very frustrating
@@johnetherington7799 I have had to do some creative repairs and a couple of times had to re do the lether wrap from scratch. Particularly problematic part of the process for me is cutting a piece of leather the right shape to produce a straight back seam is feindishly difficult. I'm convinced I'm missing a trick or there must be a better way tbh.
@@mattlewis4553 if there is a better way I haven't found it yet.
It's a sword that an up and coming lord would take to a peasant revolt
This perhaps sounds like an excessively nerdy request; but when you show a sword, could you start giving us measurements of the spine thickness, and the breadth of the bevel around the centre of percussion? That way we could, or you could, easily get a sense of the edge angle. When I see blades like the type 18's I really wish I knew the edge angle, and had a mental catalogue of typical edge angles. Obviously factors like hollow or apple-seed grinds make it all a bit more complicated, but it'd still be useful to have those two data points
@@Meevious I simultaneously feel shamed and validated.... But I think it's helpful when I can't get hands-on with the objects myself! ;)
Need a big house to wear a long sword indoors. Need a sizable hall to practice swordsmanship wildly indoors at home. It is a kind of luxury.
That is some beautiful wearable art right there.
Beautiful swords Matt’s lol enjoyed the video man recently customized my first sword scabbard and am making a Seax sheath can’t wait to work on the next sword … usually when I see folks standing close to each other it makes me a bit paranoid I’ve seen ppl do the wildest things can you speak on sword customs and courtesies I was in the Army curtain things you don’t do with a rifle what about swords and sword safety mechanisms
You have to bear in mind this appears in 2d , so where a sword may look like it's going close to someone it probably isn't. There's a certain amount of trust too I suppose. When people have had/handled swords for a long time (and I cut with them, demonstrate and do period martial arts.) It's not cutting anything I don't choose to cut. There is more formal etiquette and procedure at something like a cutting event ofc.
@@Sorrowshard right on I get that umm I’ve seen a video here where a really nice Sutton Hoo replica sword had a couple of (balls) lol and it was something to the effect of maybe tying the sword into the scabbard ? Peace bands ? Something like that I was just wondering me I don’t give a shit I’m a barbarian lol I’ll dead ass pull out a sword in the middle of the living room and start swinging that bitch over and around my head like Conan in one hand and a pistol in the other ahaha no shame guess I’m just trying to be formal lol 😂 but no seriously freaking swords man have like chivalry attached to them I think
Wool liner is great at retaining water, blood, . . . that would sit in the scabbard for a time long enough to corrode the sword. Tight scabbard fitting is good when the sword is never used. In combat the edges of the sword could roll; and the rolled up parts will make it hard to sheath the sword into a tight scabbard.
WHY would you put your sword away covered in Blood etc ? Ever ? lightly oiled wool is actually quite water repellant. Routinely I fit leather that is completely soaked through to a scabbard and leave it to dry for many hours, no rusting. Evidence of lined scabbards exists from the Bronze age through the medieval period and beyond. If it was stupid/didnt work why did they keep doing it for 000's of years ? I think you should probably educate yourself before making comments that might seem ignorant unless coming from a position of practical experience / earned knowledge.
@@mattlewis4553 - Reason being that it is hard to clean blades properly in many situation.
👏 awesome
In the long run, a sword is only as good as its scabbard
That's all well and fine about the scabbards/ swords, but do they kill? Or are these just wall hangers?
Haven't found much information about the swords seen in the recent funeral ceremonies.
Sweet. For borders, why not try screwing 5 or 10 stamps is a row to speed up the process?
Do you wont do draw that one out first…proceeds to draw it out himself the second it is touched by the other guy😂
I rarely know what I am doing.
would love a sheath or hard scabbard for my taylor eye witness dagger
I would be interested in knowing how the chape is fixed to the scabbard. Is it glued in place, pinned or just stuck on by friction?
Glue. I go for a tight fit anyway but they certainly had /used glues in period .
Wow!
The chape from the first sword he doesn't have a master of, if he was willing to remove it temporarily he could easily do a silicone mold and make a rigid cast from that that he could use to make a master. Done right you could keep it up in quality.
I need a knife maker to make me a broken back Seax knives closest to an original knife as possible. An suggestions?
They are both nice swords but I prefer the longsword out of them.
Fortunately I don't actually have to choose 🤫🙃
Well fuck me. it isn't every day you go on a channel like this and see the best .man from your wedding
Indeed. You'll remember I was always sword obsessed even a lifetime ago 😅
@@Sorrowshard on my stag do, before we went out we a little.play with the with kings sword and narsil I believe. How you doing anyway? I know you always disliked the sword like objects I had around the house lol
@@DidMyGrandfatherMakeThis Yeah , everyone starts somewhere. I loved those LOTR wallhangers , couldn't pay me to take one now. I'm O.K I guess considering the UK is a roiling Turd-fire atm.
@@Sorrowshard yeah every week i consider emigrating to my parents basement in France. As you soy, we all start somewhere and since doing HEMA for ten years I tried to get back into renactment and that went as well as could be expected lol
So I am a arming sword type guy, well now I know. :)
I love to walk around my apartment wearing my early mideval sword, made by Michael Pearce😉
can you make a medieval movie set in the 15th century or an idea in your head?
Matt wants those swords so bad tho' 😅🤣
1 min later: 267 mails for a scabbard
All this time I bothered with cutting slats for my crap utilitarian scabbards because I didn't know plywood could actually be shaped (alternating grain direction and all that)
t. Big brain woodworker selling steam bent furniture lol
The armor bit at the end kinds makes me wonder why this blade type didn't comeback into fashion in the late early modern period well armor was in decline for most troops in European armies.
What thickness of leather do you use for the wooden core?
As thin as I can get. typically it's 0.8 to 1.2mm veg tan calfskin (leather thickness is never exact /consistent)
XVIIIc ... AKA, the Phallic Type.
Cool
I am not a craftsman of any note, but I have made swords and scabbards. They were crap, to putit mildly, but I can say this: If anything, more work and labour and more individual skills are involved in making the scabbard, than in making a sword. This is not to diminish the work of the smith, which is a high art, but speaks more of just how much widely varying knowledge and meticulous skills show up while making a scabbard. I would expect that a maker of scabbards at this level would need to command a very large price. That second scabbard, probably a hundred hours of skilled labour, and could easily be more depending on the level of purely bespoke metalwork. Given the nature of leather and the quality level needed for tooled leather that takes dye evenly, thats a 50$ chucnk of leather, maybe double that depending on market conditions. Just the skin of the scabbard.
Why am I posting this? because I just know someone in the comments is trying to get one of these for a hundred bucks or 'think of how gfood the advertizing is when my mates see it!'
When commisoning work fro craftspeople, do not judge their prices before you know what you are paying for in terms of work. I can tell you that if he is charging less than a couple thousand bucks for those scabbards, he has found ways of making things faster with higher quality than I can imagine. The hours of labour, the hours of creating trash that as he said nobody will ever see.... This must be respected, and you respect craft with priase, and th most sincere praise of all is when a buyer offers the hours are their lives, expressed in their own wages, in trade for the hours a craftsman puts into anything they make for you. I have never in my life met even an *adequately paid* craftsman, and that says something to me about how unaware we are of what we ask for.
This is all absolutely true. And appears to be the case in the historical record too.
A very embellished high end scabbard can cost more than the sword. I think to break even on the arming sword shown here its probably 2k dollars. There's over 500 just in materials , fittings and casting costs. If I was doing it to make a living with rent /living/worksop costs a factorc? Call it $2500, which is incidentally similar money to the sword ... After all The Arthuriam myths tell us the real magic is in the scabbard ....
Maybe it's because I'm a Minnesotan, but my goodness these two are standing close. They're practically dancing.
I'm not Minnesotan, but am from the 1800s and so I agree, they should be standing further apart.
Camera framing be damned.
So it's a buster sword
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Ahh knew the sword was Gael Fabre - would love to see more of his stuff, it is incredible - his swords actually look like they are from medieval France, such incredible artistry. I prefer Tod's scabbards though to this dude's
I just realized how much practice a presenter has to have to show obects on camera.
Matt makes some beautiful stuff but he really needs lessons on how to play to the camera!
Tbf, I don't even know what that means.
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Superb work !