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Post by nddave on Oct 31, 2015 2:53:27 GMT
Looks nice. Here is the view from my door for most of the year That's bad ass. Roof fall? I used to get 4'-5' burms off my roof but nothing like that. Where do you live?
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Post by Afoo on Oct 31, 2015 3:02:40 GMT
This isn't actually my place lol. Just a picture I got from the net. I'm in Ottawa, Canada, so we like making jokes about our cold.
I did spend some time up near James Bay though, and we legitimately did this out of our window in April
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Post by nddave on Oct 31, 2015 20:39:33 GMT
This isn't actually my place lol. Just a picture I got from the net. I'm in Ottawa, Canada, so we like making jokes about our cold. I did spend some time up near James Bay though, and we legitimately did this out of our window in April Yea I don't know what I'm going to do with the lack of snow in my new area. Never really played in it so pretty much the snow was a chore regarding removal. At least I had a snow blower so it wasn't too bad. I don't know, most of me is jumping for joy because I don't have to deal with it or drive in it anymore. Then there's that one little part of me that thinks I'll miss it.... Then the rest of the joyful me screams quiet down!!!, lol. No I'll miss it, a little anyway. There's just something about a first snow that is peaceful and magnificent, especially at night when it's lightly snowing and the sky is clear enough to get a glimpse at the moon above the evergreens. Yea, maybe a little.
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Post by Afoo on Oct 31, 2015 21:57:51 GMT
I do prefer snow to rain though :(
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Post by nddave on Nov 1, 2015 16:59:57 GMT
I do prefer snow to rain though I'm more of a rain guy personally, especially in the early spring or late fall. In the forest you get that strong smell and its almost intoxicating. Nothing better than getting up early morning on a rainy spring day to go outside and just take it in.
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Post by nddave on Nov 24, 2015 17:28:45 GMT
Little update,
Put it through a few milk jugs and bottles yesterday before the trashman came and yea this sword can cut. Thrusts extremely well too, might be the shorter blade but man I stepped in and had this sword to the hilt in a milk jug pretty effortlessly. It feels real good on the thrust, more so than even my more thrust oriented blades like my H/T or Effigy. Honestly this is the most fun I've had cutting with a sword in a long time. Probably is the shorter blade, 26" is my preferred blade length with katana so I'm sure my handling feels the most merged when handling this sword.
It's funny how I can't stand long blade katana but European swords it doesn't bother me at all. Goes to show how different swords handle and feel, lol.
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Post by Gunnar Wolfgard on Nov 25, 2015 1:16:14 GMT
You know, I bought this sword mainly because of the Deal of the Day price but the more I look at it the more I like it. I think it's the wide blade even wider than my Viking blades. I can't wait to start redoing it. Found this copper coin that if the measurement is right it will fit right into the pommel.
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Post by pgandy on Nov 25, 2015 1:31:13 GMT
I’ll be glad when I get mine. It arrived in country Monday. That was the last I’ve heard. I’ll start tracking it down tomorrow and hopefully start the gruelling processing. Today I withdrew money.
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Post by nddave on Nov 25, 2015 1:41:12 GMT
You know, I bought this sword mainly because of the Deal of the Day price but the more I look at it the more I like it. I think it's the wide blade even wider than my Viking blades. I can't wait to start redoing it. Found this copper coin that if the measurement is right it will fit right into the pommel. That's awesome. I've contemplated on if I want to place anything in the boss but haven't really found anything I really like. Plus I kinda like it bare.
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Post by nddave on Nov 25, 2015 1:45:44 GMT
I’ll be glad when I get mine. It arrived in country Monday. That was the last I’ve heard. I’ll start tracking it down tomorrow and hopefully start the gruelling processing. Today I withdrew money. That sucks you have to go through such extra cost and hassle to get swords shipped to you. Is it just swords though or anything shipped in? At least you'll have it soon. It really is a great sword, I'm sure you'll be happy with it.
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Post by bigpete on Nov 26, 2015 8:08:05 GMT
Glad to be reading such good reviews about this sword,I'll be buying a bare blade off a friend soon to make a matched set with one of the windlass dagger blades I've got. Suits me too,if my research is correct,these swords were often used by the yeomen archers around the time of Crecy and Agincourt ☺
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Post by Luka on Nov 26, 2015 10:45:10 GMT
Actually, this sword would be slightly outdated by the time of Crecy and very outdated (around 100 years) by the time of Agincourt. Windlass type XIV fits best into late 13th/early 14th century. And archers carrying shortswords like this is also a bit of a myth. Pictorial evidence and quality and decoration of many type XIV swords show them to be knightly weapons, although they would no doubt be popular with middle class free men too.
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Post by L Driggers (fallen) on Nov 26, 2015 11:43:39 GMT
Yep most archers carried mauls or axes have to have the tools to makes the stakes chest level high to a horse.
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Post by Luka on Nov 26, 2015 13:58:08 GMT
By the end of the 100 years war and even more later, during wars of roses and Tudors, archers became much better paid and it was expected of them that they are partially armoured and armed with swords. Burgundians and French had mounted archer units armed and armoured very well, to be able to function both as archers and as light/medium cavalry. But in 14th and early 15th century, archers were still only cheaper and more numerous alternative for men at arms and they were equipped light.
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Post by nddave on Nov 27, 2015 4:38:32 GMT
Glad to be reading such good reviews about this sword,I'll be buying a bare blade off a friend soon to make a matched set with one of the windlass dagger blades I've got. Suits me too,if my research is correct,these swords were often used by the yeomen archers around the time of Crecy and Agincourt ☺ Thanks and that sounds awesome. Be sure to post your finished product, which dagger are you basing the hilt for the XIV blade from? Regarding your research you're kinda right and so is Luka. Luka is correct that by the time those battle were fought the Type XIV was pretty much abandoned. As mentioned it had a rather short lifespan of use, similar to the Type XVII neither of those swords saw much use past a hundred or so years. I think a lot of that has to do with them being more transitional blades that were kind of a implemented "work in progress" that were passed aside when the initial design was better implemented by a new typology profile. With the XIV it was pretty much outclassed by the Type XV and XVI swords that were in use during the battles you mentioned. As I mentioned in my review I really think the XIV was in a sense a prototype for the soon to follow XVI which has similar profile but a longer more suitable reach and diamond profile which better suits thrusting while still being capable of cutting efficiently. If you really look at a Type XVI it seems to take the best of the XIV and XV and meld them into a very efficient cut and thrust combo, further improved on with the even more efficient Type XVIII.
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Post by nddave on Nov 27, 2015 5:06:01 GMT
Actually, this sword would be slightly outdated by the time of Crecy and very outdated (around 100 years) by the time of Agincourt. Windlass type XIV fits best into late 13th/early 14th century. And archers carrying shortswords like this is also a bit of a myth. Pictorial evidence and quality and decoration of many type XIV swords show them to be knightly weapons, although they would no doubt be popular with middle class free men too. Then again there also was the Coustilliers. If you look at most pics of Coustille short swords or daggers they resemble Type XIV swords and the average blade lengths of Type XIV blades also could fit into being Coustille swords being very short swords themselves. It seems Oakeshott doesn't consider Coustille swords Type XIV swords, then again he doesn't really deny it either (from what I have read). Its hard to look past though the similarities in profile. These short swords would match something that an archer or infantryman would use in the 12th-13th century and even later as Coustille short swords and daggers were still in use up until the 15th century before being replaced by the more intricate and aesthetic Type XXI cinquedea. Much of what I read about the archer class using Type XIV or short swords was due to them carrying bucklers with them to use with a sword when caught at close quarters. Most archers in various country's armies were also called onto the front lines after their use as ranged combatants had been used up or the need arose for more men on the battlefield.
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Post by bigpete on Nov 27, 2015 6:19:56 GMT
Sometimes its not cool to shatter other peoples ideas guys
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Post by nddave on Nov 27, 2015 6:42:10 GMT
Sometimes its not cool to shatter other peoples ideas guys Hopefully I'm missing out on some typed sarcasm because that wasn't my intent. It was actually the opposite as I was giving some theoretical evidence to your research with my inclusion of the Coustille short swords and their prominent use over the centuries as the primary weapons of lower class infantrymen and archers. With a little additional info on the short lifespan of the type XIV itself as a arming or riding sword included. Honestly when it comes to medieval swords and their usage in time, even Oakeshott himself has stated it is very hard to decipher just where or when a certain sword could have been used. Much like even Japanese culture a lot of the times swords were passed down through generations as both heirlooms and battle weapons. It is one theory Oakeshott had as to why he found some earlier period type blades with more later period hilt furniture. For example a Type XII or even X with hilt furniture that fits more in the later centuries where type X or XII blades had been out of use. You really never know just who was using what and where unless you have a full record of either that specific soldier or Knight's arms or a detailed record of the specific battles and just what those armies had in their armories. Again I hope you didn't take my replies as snobby or insulting and I was sincere when I said I am looking forward to seeing what you do with your Type XIV blade.
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Post by Luka on Nov 27, 2015 9:24:51 GMT
I also apologize if you really understood us that way. Nobody can prove that no archer at Agincourt used such a sword. I was just stating that a picture many people have about type XIV swords being typical archer swors is a bit mythical. Especially since XIV was as stated above a bit of an experimental design with relatively short period of popularity.
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Post by bigpete on Nov 27, 2015 20:33:15 GMT
Don't worry guys I think I'll get over it ☺ lol .
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