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Post by pellius on Mar 26, 2024 11:19:33 GMT
Swords can’t really talk…
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Post by Arlequin on Mar 26, 2024 11:28:58 GMT
Swords can’t really talk… Mine do. My therapist says to ignore them tho, but my therapist says many things of little importance...
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Mar 26, 2024 11:59:03 GMT
My ESS talks to me, IT DOESN'T LIKE YOU!!
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Post by pellius on Mar 26, 2024 13:41:36 GMT
My mistake! lol
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Post by conankills on Mar 26, 2024 16:41:57 GMT
My Regent Attachments:
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Post by randomnobody on Mar 26, 2024 23:28:45 GMT
I don't know about "emotional support" but this one gives me the warm fuzzies whenever I think about it, and never fails to get a smile when I pick it up:
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Greg E
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Post by Greg E on Mar 27, 2024 3:04:40 GMT
My Albion Huskarl. Just something about the grip and blade presence that keeps me going back to this one.
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Post by hawthorn on Mar 27, 2024 5:13:55 GMT
No and if I did it would be a real weapon, not a sword. I just bury all the bad stuff inside me.
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Mar 27, 2024 11:50:25 GMT
Pizza?
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Post by madirish on Mar 27, 2024 13:15:48 GMT
I don't know about "emotional support" but this one gives me the warm fuzzies whenever I think about it, and never fails to get a smile when I pick it up: sweet Khyber knife!
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Post by interruptingcow on Mar 27, 2024 13:24:23 GMT
Good friends to gather round you; to laugh with you, celebrate with you, and to tell you to stop being such a baby when you’re feeling down. Not sure if you're joking or not about the being such a baby part, but a real good friend will ask if you're okay when he takes notice of you feeling down... someone seriously telling you the baby thing is not a real friend, he's either a wannabe bully or alarmingly unempathetic, or both. Just saying. I agree with the gathering, laughing and celebrating part, though I guess any collecting hobby or modern day consumerism of all the pretty things we don't actually need is "emotional support" anyway, always was, just wasn't named accordingly. It lifts you up situationally, which helps getting along with the daily grind and horrors. Stop being such a baby!
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Post by randomnobody on Mar 27, 2024 15:24:29 GMT
I don't know about "emotional support" but this one gives me the warm fuzzies whenever I think about it, and never fails to get a smile when I pick it up: sweet Khyber knife! I have a few, but that one's my favorite.
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Post by Zen_Hydra on Mar 27, 2024 15:52:04 GMT
I get nice sense memories when I handle any of my swords, but certainly more than others (for instance ones I put a lot of time and effort into modifying/customizing). There are also some that have a strong sense of "rightness" when I handle them, almost as if to say, this is how a sword should feel in your grasp and how one move when used.
I will often pull out a weapon or two when I venture into my home office, and fiddle about with them while reading email or surfing the intartubes. One sword I always feel the need to molest is my Albion Munich. It's one of those "right" feeling swords to me, and I'm always impressed at the custom pommel markers that I made for it.
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Post by viece on Mar 28, 2024 22:20:59 GMT
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Mar 28, 2024 22:24:48 GMT
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Post by LeMal on Mar 29, 2024 1:06:38 GMT
I also have a few. But if I had to pick one it's a tossup.
It might be my OLD style (circa 1987-8) MRL Mongol. I passed on it year after year, thinking it was cheap and in every catalog, I could always get it later; then it disappeared from the catalog, and worse the model had acquired more nostalgia value because a friend I'd lost had had one. Took me a great effort to nab one a few years back.
Then there's an actual 19th C 1796 "clone" marketed in the US, probably as a trade item. I got it in an antique barn as a blade only, around 1981, when in high school. Rehilted it in a unique way that I nevertheless felt embarassed about since it wasn't commonly historical, and the handle wasn'y historical at all: I'd shaped it from epoxy putty! So I let it go. Then about ten years ago, after plenty of experience made me realize I'd had nothing to be embarassed about and was missing the old thing, believe it or not--I saw it listed on eBay! Nabbed it back, against all odds.
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Post by tera on Mar 29, 2024 2:49:03 GMT
I've had a Paul Chen Iaito for 20 years. Its worn leather ito brings back fond memories of training in younger days.
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Post by darkcampaign on Apr 10, 2024 19:27:32 GMT
I think I have to go with my Talhoffer here. I've had it for a long time, and it's been my go-to for training for the last couple of years. I enjoy it so much, I bought a second one, which is fortunately nearly identical. It's instantly familiar in my hands, and feels like an old friend or comfy shoe. I keep it in regular rotation on a wall hanger at one of my bedposts for nightly watchguard duties, just a few inches away from another of my best friends that guards the roost - a finely tuned and particularly accurate vintage S&W M629-3 in 4".
I must admit though...my newly arrived Ljubljana has me second-guessing this a little, and with a bit more time with her, she might just edge out the ol' Taly. I can't stop picking up the Ljub, just to feel the incredible balance.
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