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Post by admin on Feb 27, 2007 0:57:01 GMT
Just thought I'd add - since this was so well done, a Reliks Gift voucher and entry into the win a sword competition it deserves! ;D
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Post by rammstein on Feb 27, 2007 1:00:10 GMT
wow thanks paul!
I wasn't really expecting this, so your generosity is much appreciated!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2007 4:28:54 GMT
Gorgeous sword, Rammstein!! Congrats ;D How I wish I was just living next door & have the chance to pop-by & admire it physically in my hands!!
It's beautiful... and nice pix, too!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2010 13:56:09 GMT
damn.........sick sword
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Post by shadowhowler on Jun 14, 2010 18:10:12 GMT
Its ALIVE... its... [glow=green,2,300]...ALIVE!!![/glow] 3 years and 4 months... that HAS to be a SBG Thread-O-Mancy record no?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2010 18:41:34 GMT
to say nothing useful in the slightest? I don't think it counts. Hang on let me go dig up a post from the earliest period of SBG
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Post by shadowhowler on Jun 14, 2010 18:52:38 GMT
to say nothing useful in the slightest? I don't think it counts. Hang on let me go dig up a post from the earliest period of SBG I've no comment on the comment... I'm just saying 3 years and 4 months is the oldest thread I have ever seen necro'ed!
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Post by YlliwCir on Jun 14, 2010 20:00:20 GMT
This one was from before my time.
I like seeing old threads pop up. Good to know someone still enjoys or finds them useful. I also think it might benefit the people that weren't around when these threads sank below the horizon and so might not be aware of them.
As to the Ritter, I never cared for that one for strictly aesthetic reasons. The pommel puts me off.
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Post by ShooterMike on Jun 14, 2010 20:30:15 GMT
...And I, on the other hand, think it's one of the most attractive swords Albion makes. Just goes to show that one sword definitely doesn't fit all. I miss Rammy and his Ritter. I really wanted to take that sword off his hands when he went away to school, just after it got all rusted over. Someday I will have me a Ritter!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2010 20:35:51 GMT
Odley enough this is one of the first review I ever saw from this site. I think it was like the second or third. I think the first was RicWillys Eddie III review.
I agree with you on this one Ric. The pommel is a bit of a put of for me too. Neat to look at but just not my taste to own.I think a Brazil nut would go nice with that blade and cross.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2010 11:43:48 GMT
Actually the Ritter and Hospitaler are the two Albions I want the most just because the Oakeshott type of these two swords (Type XI) is very underrepresented. To me the pommel actually adds to the appeal because it helps me see that this was a transitory type between the viking age swords and the swords of the medieval period.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2010 14:10:02 GMT
I too like this sword, I bought a Ritter pommel from the moat sale and will eventually mount it on a blade...was thinking about putting it on a Hanwei-Tinker Type XII though...Type XI bare blades are hard to come by...I agree that this blade with a true brazil nut pommel would be sweet also...(see the pic of the one in the Royal Ontario Museum I posted, for example)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2010 15:37:29 GMT
I have ordered this sword two months ago from Albion EU. It's allready paid for, but right now it's waiting for a custom scabbard to be made, so it's not in my hands yet. I should have it by october. Can't wait to see how this project will turn out. This review was one of many things, that convinced me to go with the ritter. As my budged is far from unlimited, this will be my first and quite possible the last Albion. So it took more than I year before I decided what I want in a sword in this price range. It's interesting how this one wasn't even to my taste when I first checked it out about a year and a half ago. I started to like this design many months later. This is simply because It's a bit of a unusual tipe of a medieval sword, not something we would see in every medieval movie... But once you get past this, you can see a mighty, imposing, handsome blade, true knightly sword in it's most simple, but also very elegant form, and it's also very distinct for the crusader era, which is another plus for me. The original would supposed to be from the first half of the 13. century. I can just imagine german knights, armed with this sword, when german emperor Frederick II took Jerusalem in 1229 by treaty from the muslims... ;D Well anyway, thanks for the great review, it was very helpful to me...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2010 1:58:01 GMT
I just picked up an Albion Type XI bareblade. Still 'classified' as to what I have planned for it, but it is something I have speculated on since Albion introduced the Ritter. I will reveal as sson is 'appropriate'.
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