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Post by curiomansion on Dec 7, 2023 3:40:46 GMT
rschuch Wow nice! I'd have planned and procrastinated for a year before taking action. Really quick and really nice work!
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Post by rschuch on Dec 7, 2023 3:47:32 GMT
Thanks! It'll look even better with the wood platform underneath and the bronze handle. I'll post another pic when it gets here Sunday.
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Post by izzy on Dec 8, 2023 14:12:57 GMT
There are some special hinges for glass, which you can tighten on via a set screw. I'll have to make a trip to the hardware store and see what I can find. Two hinges and a handle will work. And yes, it is easy to cut yourself if you're messing with them or cleaning them and not careful. As for why I don't like guns? Loud noise, big recoil, too easy to kill someone. Gun violence is a thing...sword violence is not. To me it's just not an elegant weapon. Maybe there's a psychological component as well for crime. I do have one gun, my great grandfather's .22 rifle given to me by my dad last year. It is NOT loaded and sits in a corner in my bedroom and I'd love to give it back. It IS fun for target shooting though and the one I use of we go to a range. My grandfather who moved to FLA in the late 1920's had to keep his gun in a safe deposit box due to my Anti-gun Grandmother. My dad qualified as "Expert" in marksmanship in the USN, but is not a "Gun Guy". The secret to recoil, blast and noise, is to let it wash over you like a wave in the ocean. If you can imagine that, you can handle the most common calibers.
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Post by izzy on Dec 8, 2023 14:16:49 GMT
With that diatribe out of the way, if I ever did get into shooting I've always thought that a bolt action rifle would be quite fun. The .22 I have is bolt action (Marlin 81DL) and yeah, its fun. I have a non-functional 1870 Enfield on my wall as well. People carrying guns freaks me out. I carry a knife but I use it all the time for anything from food to packages. If you carry a gun, it's for one reason, and that scares me. Road rage is very real here. If I ever got a pistol I think a black powder would be cool, maybe a long barrel Colt 1871 open top. I love the look of those. At close range a blade is just as deadly as a Firearm.
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Post by izzy on Dec 8, 2023 14:18:07 GMT
I put a piece of cardboard in for now. This is what it looks like. I got some nice wood planks to fit where the cardboard is but it'll have to wait until this weekend when I have time. Much better.
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Post by toddstratton1 on Dec 8, 2023 17:19:08 GMT
It's funny, I'm not a firearms guy and they make me uncomfortable, but the friends I have that are into them and collect them love to show them off and hand them to me. I like the older ones because I'm into the historical nature of them, but modern guns just creep me out. But why they're so much more accepted than swords doesn't make sense to me. Yeah, maybe you could cut yourself if you're not careful, but accidental shootings happen all the time ("I didn't know it was loaded") and one slip could kill someone unintentionally. With a sword or dagger, it's going to be intentional if anything happens. It's just the psychology of it. I have pocket knives too and get a lot of funny looks if I need to use one because I carry 4"+ pocket swords, mainly flippers and autos. Yeah...I dunno, I walked into a place with a coffee table display of guns....I'd be even more uncomfortable than in the case of your display...and I am a firearms guy. Any display of working modern firearms just open to easy pickup (whether on walls or tables) in, say, the living room, would definitely weird me out and I probably would not be back. Old non functioning antiques...fine. Some rifles in a locked cabinet, ok. I remember when I was on my sister in laws parents ranch almost 10 years ago, I was walking through one of the houses and there was just an AR 15 sitting on the table, not locked up , hopefully not loaded, but in a place where quite a few kids were also living. I'm all for responsible gun ownership as I would own then myself if I didn't live in a place like NYC where it's impossible basically. But the kind of idiotic lack of responsibility from people who do stuff like what I saw there really pissed me off. Mostly to do with the fact that he just left a rifle there within reach of any kid who could have gotten their hands on it and potentially cause a huge mistake.
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Post by izzy on Dec 10, 2023 7:25:12 GMT
Yeah...I dunno, I walked into a place with a coffee table display of guns....I'd be even more uncomfortable than in the case of your display...and I am a firearms guy. Any display of working modern firearms just open to easy pickup (whether on walls or tables) in, say, the living room, would definitely weird me out and I probably would not be back. Old non functioning antiques...fine. Some rifles in a locked cabinet, ok. I remember when I was on my sister in laws parents ranch almost 10 years ago, I was walking through one of the houses and there was just an AR 15 sitting on the table, not locked up , hopefully not loaded, but in a place where quite a few kids were also living. I'm all for responsible gun ownership as I would own then myself if I didn't live in a place like NYC where it's impossible basically. But the kind of idiotic lack of responsibility from people who do stuff like what I saw there really pissed me off. Mostly to do with the fact that he just left a rifle there within reach of any kid who could have gotten their hands on it and potentially cause a huge mistake.
I kept all my firearms not being used in a steel "stack on" locked cabinet in Florida. At one time I kept the candy in there as well, to keep the kids from pilfering it. Big mistake, one of the younger ones "borrowed" my keys and got to the candy, then I started to put it ( sugar free candy) in separate locked cash boxes, and took better care of the keys.
In the country there is a different set of dangers than the city. Poachers, Snakes, Wild Boar, Bear, packs of Coyotes, Panthers ( usually very shy, but they do attack occasionally), Raccoons go after the fowl, and in my case ( Jackson Co.) a Local Government Protected Meth gang that would sometimes get "high on their own supply" and drive around for days shooting up the forest with AR's. Sometimes you just needed something "on hand" that could keep them at bay. When a firearm is in the house with children (even "locked up"), it's a good idea to teach the children Firearms Safety, and even better to take them out to shoot for a practical lesson. That way they learn first hand it's not a toy, and movies don't show the real deal.
As for blades, I was 5 when my mother bought me ( and my brothers, one a tad younger, one a tad older) our first tiny "gentleman's" pocket knifes, did we cut ourselves? Heck yes, but we learned how to handle a blade w/o hurting ourselves. Then later on to kitchen duty to help with weekly sabbath prep. when we were a bit older. Learning how to handle a kitchen knife safely is important, as just about everyone has a few bigger "sharps" in the kitchen.
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Post by LeMal on Dec 10, 2023 15:19:14 GMT
I've mentioned these wire shelving units a zillion times. www.homedepot.com/p/HDX-3-Tier-Steel-Wire-Shelving-Unit-in-Black-24-in-W-x-30-in-H-x-14-in-D-E356075OAK3RTHD/313360980Besides being able to display swords vertically in a compact space, using them allows great options on this topic. If you've got them somewhere in the open, voila, a nice blanket or sheet thrown over them turns things unthreatening and genteel for guests. If you, as I do when I have the living space, want to secure them you put the racks in a separate locked room, or even locked closet within a locked room. (Or in the garage or workshop for my "projects in progress" for rehilting etc.) I also personally, usually, have one or two swords out, horizontally on a stand on a credenza or the like, if I have the space. And then rotate which ones have the "place of honor." There's my low-key introduction to many guests. Combines the best of "swords are cool" conversation openers with "yeah, but I don't want to be a geeking possible nutjob who scares people." (An approach, btw, that most stuff but not all secured storage works just as well with my admittedly much smaller collection of guns--especially if the conversation opener out on display, as it is for me, is a blackpowder piece.)
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Post by Greg E on Dec 10, 2023 16:13:55 GMT
This is in a certain room that few are invited to. The swords come up and down in different ways depending on my moods. The wife just hopes things stay in this room and don't encroach on the rest of the house.
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Post by izzy on Dec 10, 2023 16:39:19 GMT
This is in a certain room that few are invited to. The swords come up and down in different ways depending on my moods. The wife just hopes things stay in this room and don't encroach on the rest of the house.
Nice, real nice, that's why it's called an Armory. I especially like the top spear. Who made it and how do you like it? I need a few good quality Spears.
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Post by Greg E on Dec 10, 2023 17:03:53 GMT
This is in a certain room that few are invited to. The swords come up and down in different ways depending on my moods. The wife just hopes things stay in this room and don't encroach on the rest of the house.
Nice, real nice, that's why it's called an Armory. I especially like the top spear. Who made it and how do you like it? I need a few good quality Spears.That is the one spear that I do not remember who the smith is. One of my first pieces I ever got from a smith in Poland. Sorry about that. Just realized how dark those spear pics are. They are under a cat run my wife put up so the cats car run around near the ceiling.
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Post by izzy on Dec 10, 2023 17:27:12 GMT
Nice, real nice, that's why it's called an Armory. I especially like the top spear. Who made it and how do you like it? I need a few good quality Spears. That is the one spear that I do not remember who the smith is. One of my first pieces I ever got from a smith in Poland. Sorry about that. Just realized how dark those spear pics are. They are under a cat run my wife put up so the cats car run around near the ceiling. Makes sense that it's custom made, so hard to get decent spears. I missed the chance to buy Lutel when they were one solid firm, always drooling at their goods, never actually making an order. If the name comes to you at 3 a.m. in a cold sweat, please write it down and post or PM me.
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