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Post by Kilted Cossack on Feb 11, 2010 3:23:28 GMT
Gents:
Flat out question: does the VA AT303S seem to have an itsy bitsy spider grip to any of you? Not climbing up the water spout and being washed back out, but just SMALL?
It seems markedly smaller than my other swords, including: Hanwei Practical Kung Fu (which has a monster grip), KC Korean sword, Hanwei Side Sword. It even feels a bit smaller than the wood grip on the Windlass American Revolutionary Saber.
If so, would you call it "accurately small"? Did the Western arming sword just have a daintier grip?
Many thanks in advance!
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Post by kidcasanova on Feb 11, 2010 4:10:46 GMT
It's pretty dainty, to be sure. When I ordered my second 303S, I asked Sonny to use the beefier grip from the VA Crusader. I can tell you in makes a world of difference.
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Post by shadowhowler on Feb 11, 2010 4:20:43 GMT
It's pretty dainty, to be sure. When I ordered my second 303S, I asked Sonny to use the beefier grip from the VA Crusader. I can tell you in makes a world of difference. Castile grip would work also, that ones a bit beefier... yeh, the grip on the AT303s is a little small, but not uncomfortably so to me, and I gots big paws.
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Post by Kilted Cossack on Feb 11, 2010 4:30:25 GMT
Thanks, guys.
I wouldn't say the grip on my AT303S is uncomfortable, but it is small. It just seemed . . . kind of odd, and I figured I'd see if it was just me!
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Post by Sonny Suttles on Feb 11, 2010 15:37:51 GMT
We can make you a beefier grip. Send me a PM if you are interested.
Sonny
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Post by YlliwCir on Feb 11, 2010 21:08:29 GMT
A point of reference, my Albion Poitiers' grip is an average of a quarter inch smaller around than my VA Arming and my Atrim 1315+ is about a quarter inch larger than the VA. I have no problems with the grip on any of the three, if anything I prefer a smaller grip, but then I got small hands (size 8 ring finger).
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Post by Eaglehawk on Feb 12, 2010 0:30:00 GMT
I had Sonny put a Castile grip on mine. I love it.
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Post by Kilted Cossack on Feb 12, 2010 1:06:34 GMT
PM sent to Mister Suttles!
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Post by johnlundemo1 on Feb 12, 2010 3:36:37 GMT
I used to make my grips beefy but still comfy, then I started really looking close at the antiques and got to handle several through the years and you would not believe how small the grips were on most single and bastard broadswords. Many so small you had to have a finger over the pommel and this was also a comon practice for edge reticulation as well. Some so small you wonder if the tang was a sliver. But hey old Islamic sword most americans cannot even squeeze thier hands into. Any old ones I've tried I could not hold at all.
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Post by Kilted Cossack on Feb 12, 2010 4:54:01 GMT
John:
Thank you, sir. (It was a toss up between, "Thanx, dude!" and "Thank you, sir" and you see which way I went.) It's always nice to get input from the "walk the walk" people---I'm mostly a theorist.
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