Custom Handmade Scabbards

first one to guess the sword gets an exalt

its not a viceroy

exalt!

"How did you go for time on this one?"

I lost track of time

I thought the first one looked nice, but this one is just astounding. Great Job.

I always hate the part when I have to ship it off, knowing I won't see it again. When you put such passion into your work, you want to admire the finished product as long as possible.

I know what you mean. Same with my blades. No amount of money can replace them. But you just have to be glad that some money enables you to keep doing what you love. By sharing with the world you can continue your art.

Hey brian, whats the longest sword thats comfortable/plausible with this type of integral belt design?

Is it mostly something for one handers or do longswords work too?

There is the issue of historical accuracy here....

The type of intergral suspension that Brian is doing is generally found on earlier swords. I'd place a VERY rough guess that it was being phased out be 1350 (That's probably off by a few years, feel free to correct it if anyone knows a better guess). Generally, you'd see this type of suspension on the more cutting oriented swords oakeshott types X-XIV probably. It's certainly possible that later swords had this type of suspension, in fact I'm not sure it would even be totally out of place on some of the later types. But I think once longswords started to get more popular the style of suspension changed. If you want to play it safe on whether or not that type of integral suspension is good for you, you'll need to find out about your longsword because some certainly would be appropriate while others might get iffy. Let's use two examples from the sub-$300 market. The Kris Cutlery war sword should fit decently but the darksword gothic would be out of place.

But there were more styles than just the multi-pointed longsword suspension (what Brian is offering through his sword belts, essentially).


www.myarmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=11077&highlight=longsword+scabbard+suspension

Take a look at those effigies. A single handed sword around 1400 may have looked like that. The very last picture is an example of a typical longsword suspension.




Obviously nothing is as pretty as the earlier complex stuff though ;D



edit: Best thing you can do to learn about this is looking through Russ Ellis' stuff, specifically his trident line:

www.tritonworks.com/trident

Hey Ramm,

Just one point, small though it is...

The integral suspension, or at least one belt half to front and one belt half to rear, is seen almost exclusively on effigies up until the late 1300s and early 1400s.

Dan Dickinson is making me a highly researched scabbard for my Crecy. I really wanted a multi-point suspension system. But try as we might, neither of us could find a Type XVIa or anything "XVI-ish" depicted in effigies or artwork that showed anything other than the early belting style. So I am going with a something 1320-ish "man-at-arms" themed as they are a bit more nice looking that the later "two-belt-halves" look.

All the effigies I could find in any of the Oakeshott books that showed multi-point suspensions were from 1420-30 onward, and showed distinctly a few XVIIs and lots of XVIIIs. But if you know of anything earlier, could you please let me know?

Once again, amazing work.

Ramm, you seem to have good knowledge on historical accuracy.

I was asking in general, but if we specifically narrow it down to a type XIIa longsword like I have, what would you consider to be the proper suspension?

I currently have a double wrap belt, and its alright, but I'm playing with the idea of making/getting something else. Gonna use this one a little more and see if it grows on me first.