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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2007 14:19:28 GMT
Wow, that is pretty bad. Not that I'm any better. My throwing knives consistantly want to hit things with the butt end. Granted, it would leave a nasty welt, but when your throwing a knife at someone, the last thing you want to hear is, "OW, that really stings! I mean honestly, it's going to leave a goosebump! I have a date tonight, idiot!" ;D
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2007 20:44:33 GMT
good review I have the earlier version, very nice indoor weapon one of the first I would go for if things went bump in the night.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2007 15:24:16 GMT
Just a quick update here for anyone interested. I dissasembled the Coustille to get some shots of the tang. It was a threaded pommel, so all it took was a few wrenches with my hand while it was in a vice to get it off. I don't know, but the tang seems just a tiny bit undersized. However, the sword is quite small, so it may not matter that much. I don't know how much stress is put on a smaller blade, but the tang might be satisfactory. Still, I would only reccomend it as a light cutter. Also got a shot of the blade shoulders, which are quite angular. Could this adversely affect the tang by placing too much stress on it? I might consider rounding them off slightly, but I wanted an opinion first. Pommel: And to top it all off, here's that ugly as sin knife/dirk I'm making. I've still got to get rid of the grind marks, and still reshape it a little. The photo doesn't get the proportions right, the blade is 8 1/2" long. I'll put this stuff in the main review as well for Paul's benefit if he wants to move it to the main site.(minus the dirk)
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Post by Brendan Olszowy on Nov 22, 2007 16:05:20 GMT
Hey DI I dont see how you could round the shoulder without major surgery, I'd leave it. That looks like a typical Windlass tang - pretty weedy, I like the tang on your dagger better. Luckily being a short sword it shouldn't cop too much stress.
A note on the twist on pommel: You'll probably want some loctite on it to stop it turning during handling, however I drowned my Windlass Narnia in loctite to stop the pommel turning, and when I undid it I needed a vice. And as I undid it the tang actually twisted about a quarter of a turn! (90 degrees) So maybe just use a little loctite and just put up with it moving.
Cool dagger work. With a couple more hours work I'm sure you'll get it looking great.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2007 16:10:47 GMT
Yeah, I didn't think it would be that big of a deal. It's not like I'll be chopping wood with it. It's funny, but there seemed to be some kind of resin holding the grip to the bottom of the guard, but none anywhere else.
As for the dagger, yeah, it's basically on hold until I can justify it to myself to buy a belt sander. I also have to figure out what kind of grip I'm giong to put on it. Ballock? Baselard? Standard with quillions?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2007 3:14:51 GMT
Very cool review! After seeing what you could do with it, definitely a short sword I don't want surly peasants running around with that! Ancalagon
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2007 7:27:45 GMT
It's definitely a sword it just happens to be hobbit sized. BTW nice review looks like a really nice piece
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2010 22:30:13 GMT
I just got my Coustille in today thanks to DI's review. The first thing I examined was the leather scabbard. The leather pinches in together at the middle to where there is no gap, and I find that I have to move the point to one side and then gently move it to the other side. It works good without a sharpened edge, but I hope the leather doesn't get cut in the middle when I do sharpen it. I was changing directions with it in my hand while reading the reviews, but then I heard a loud bang behind me, so decided to put the sheathed sword up for the time being =) I got this for a side arm when I do the pikemen group while saving up money for a falchion.
Sure it's a short sword, but doing the pikemen group where we push against each other with either guy behind you and to the side of you, even a regular 34" single handed sword seems to be able to trip one up. This especially when my legs are only three feet long. And the opinion of the first page is right, this was a close combat weapon and used to finish the enemy off, especially when they've been run through with a long 12 foot or longer pike. We don't run people through with our pikes, keeping them safely up in the air, but it's nice to be historically correct with the costume, and I hate stainless steel wall hangers.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2010 6:49:13 GMT
Got back from a friend helping me by making a generic baldric for my new Coustille, my Cold Steel Hand and a Half, and my Legacy Arms (Gen 2) Black Prince sword. He really likes the Coustille and says that's exactly what we would want for the pikemen group. The pinched leather interior has made room for the blade the more that I unsheathe and resheath the sword. I like how it is short enough to where I can just pin it between my waist and my belt and wear it comfortably. Looking at Museum Replicas' Gladius, those are 28" whereas the total length of this is 22". Of course, for the time period of the pike group, I wanted a medieval looking sword, not a Roman short sword.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2010 21:17:38 GMT
Finally, after getting the coustille March 11th, I finally sharpened the sucker today. I couldn't find my large sharpening stone, so I tried that method of the hand held knife sharpener that I read on one of the reviews. That didn't work because it was ceramic rods and the edge was 1mm thick. After that, I took it to my trusty bastard file to get a quick edge then honed it using the ceramic rod knife sharpener. Took my first swing at a milk jug with the handle of the jug towards me. Took a swing near the top middle, then another swing at the bottom middle using each side respectively. It didn't cut all the way through the other side, but I believe that had to deal with blade length more than sharpness. It left clean cuts however. Now my mom is going to wonder what the heck happened to that plastic milk jug when she takes it to the road for recycling. It was fun hitting a milk jug and having water just splash on my pants. I just didn't realize how much water would come out with the impact.
I then took this cotton candy container from Berry Plastics/Berry Enterprises, something like that from Wal Mart's $1 cotton candy deals, and noticed it had a thicker side than the milk jug. So I decided to fill that up with water, and take a swing. The whole thing exploded with no clean cut, and I found that the plastic was much more brittle than I thought it would be. So I had to pick up about seven different pieces and throw those in the recycling bin. More confusion for my mom when she takes the recycling bin out.
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