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Einar Drønnesund
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 Posted: Wed 08 Sep, 2004 2:47 pm Post subject: Patrick Barta. Wow... |
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I've seen several antiques with the grooves on the fuller ridges like this rapier from Patrick Barta, but I think this is the first reproduction I have seen with this detail. I cant believe the price on this thing. 750 euros seems quite cheap IMO, for a pice like this. Are there anyone on the forums that own a Barta rapier? Do his swords handle as sweet as they look?
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Kenneth Enroth
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I've looked at that one too and been confounded by the price. It looks like a very detailed piece for the money. Considering Barta is a custom maker you could probably tell him how you want it to handle. Many if not all of the swords on his homepage are replicas from a specific original. There is a viking sword that weighs four pounds but that's beacuse the original is an equally massive sword
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Timothy Gulics
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Yes, his prices are pretty low for the immense quality of work. 750 EUR works out to be about $900 USD. That ain't bad at all! 
The sword is my companion.
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Einar Drønnesund
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| Posted: Thu 09 Sep, 2004 6:01 am Post subject: |
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| Kenneth Enroth wrote: | | I've looked at that one too and been confounded by the price. It looks like a very detailed piece for the money. Considering Barta is a custom maker you could probably tell him how you want it to handle. Many if not all of the swords on his homepage are replicas from a specific original. There is a viking sword that weighs four pounds but that's beacuse the original is an equally massive sword |
Yeah, the vikings are a bit heavy for me, at least. But not unhistorically heavy. In Jan Petersens book, I think the heaviest viking sword was listed as about 4,2 lbs, while some where under 2 lbs.
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