Today's update:


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Jody Samson Carolingian Sword
A hands-on review by Bill Grandy

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Jody Samson Regency Sword
A hands-on review by Bill Grandy

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Jody Samson Boarding Cutlass
A hands-on review by Bill Grandy

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Jody Samson Warlord's Sword
A hands-on review by Russ Ellis


As always, you can see our Complete History of Updates listed right from our home page.

I can certainly say that I enjoyed reading the reviews especially Bill's on the Carolingian sword since I had the opportunity to handle that one myself. It was neat to see his impression.

I enjoyed all four of these reviews, and found the writing to be very thoughtful. Well done, Bill and Russ.

I haven't really taken much notice of Jody Sampson's swords, to date. My focus is history, and the farther a particular piece gets from history, the less interested I tend to be. So I don't expect to be in the market to purchase a sword like one of these. Nevertheless, I find all four of these pieces very attractive (maybe because there are no skulls in the castings?), so, you never know what might show up in my sword cabinet some day ....

Thanks for the comments, Steve. With this update group, we have obviously tried to bring a broader subject matter to our audience. While it might depart from our tagline of "A Resource for HIstorical Arms and Armour Collectors", I'd say that these types of items still have an appeal to our core audience. Beyond that, we hope to pull in a broader audience and share with them our core content. One of the goals of myArmoury.com is to expose this more general audience to historic arms and armour, increase the interest in such things and, with luck, help expand the market surrounding it.

Good fantasy stuff can be viewed as credible sword designs in fantasy context or as " could have been or could be " in an alternate Universe and look as coming from some unknown culture.

Credible in the sense that handling is that of usable swords and the style of decoration doesn't negatively impact handling: At least if we want to limit things to what can be considered real swords.

Swordlike objects can be anything if one likes that kind of thing: Sometimes an over the top design is so bad it good !
A bit like the worse films ever made that can be fun to watch as opposed to the truly boring which are just mediocre.