[Mark T]

Earlier this year, Nathan Robinson posted a review of his fantastic Custom A&A German Bastard Sword.

Arms & Armor recently had a different 'Personalized German Bastard' for sale. It was only up on their site for a few days, and then disappeared - so now, like the original, it resides in some unknown private collection somewhere in the world ...

I downloaded the photos at the time and am posting them here as an example of their fine custom work, but also to show the comparison to the original.

From what I can gather, we only have two (or maybe three) images available of that original, as Craig Johnson noted in the German Bastard Sword original info sought thread, which contains those images. Here's a comparison of Arms & Armor's standard German Bastard Sword with the original that inspired it:



A&A's description of the recent custom version was:

[Nathan Robinson]

I am glad someone bought it because it saved me the temptation. I realize I have a really awesome version of the sword and I'm not getting rid of it, but I did think I also might need to have this other version too! that would be so decadent of course, but that grip treatment is so stunning that it had me thinking about it.

For contrast and to keep it in this same topic, here is a photo of my customized version:



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[David Spencer]

I too saw it when it was first listed, only thing that saved me was the fact I had no money, off pay week, but was so close to putting it on the plastic. still I'm sure they could do something similar in the future maybe on a flamberge blade.

[J.D. Crawford]

Suw-weet! They're both terrific for different reasons. I like the multiple fullers on Nathan's version, but the studded handle on this one is equally cool. You the man, Craig (or you the men, Craig et al.).