Let's see:

Albion: 6 swords
A&A: 5 (2 swords, 1 mace, 1 axe, 1 spear)
Tods Stuff: 5 (1 mace, 2 eating knives, 1 seax, 1 utility knife/seax)
Patrick Barta: 1 sword
Del Tin: 1 sword

Plus one spear head on order from Patrick Barta.

BKS: 1 (sword)
Windlass: 13 (5 swords, 4 daggers, 1 knife, 1 hammer, 1 axe, 1 spear)
Cold Steel: 4 (1 sword, 1 hammer, 1 axe, 1 poleaxe)
Factory X: 1 (axe)
And then various of either unknown or my own fabrication.

1 valiant armoury
2 Hanwei Practicals
1 Hanwei Tinker
5 Merctailor
7 GDFB
2 Historic enterprises
3 Local Seamstress
3 Revival Clothing
2 Cold steel
2 Hollow Earth
1 Darksword Armoury

1 Tinker
1 Atrim
4 DSA
1 Hanwei/Tinker
2 Hanwei
2 Cold steel
1 Valiant
2 Kris Cutlery
1 Huawei
1 atrim on comission
1 DSA coming in soon

Swords Only....

Vince Evans: 3
Patrick Barta: 1
E.B. Erickson: 3
Christian Fletcher: 1
Armour Class: 2
Erik Stevenson: 3
Albion: 6
Arms & Armor: 2
Iron Age Armoury: 3
ArmArt: 2
Neil Burridge: 2
Paul Holwell: 1
Angus Trim: 3
Michael "Tinker" Pearce: 1
Donnie "MadPiper" Shearer: 1
Manning Imperial: 1
Windlass Steelcrafts: 3
Valiant Armoury: 2
CASI/Hanwei: 5
Kris Cutlery: 5
Del Tin: 14

And.... I think that's it.... I did that all from memory, so it could be just a little off.

Del Tin - 1
Christian Fletcher - 1

I do have another CF sword on order. Hopefully it'll be here before the end of the year.

Covering all including armour but I did a quick " head count " and may be off by a few especially armour where I didn't count some miscellaneous maille and some helms I purchased from an Albion moat sale a long time back that where probably made by Windlass but I'm not sure who made them.

I may have missed something I didn't remember about under a pile of stuff ..... ;) :p :lol:

So In descending order of quantity from each maker:

Mercenary Tailor's: (26) Armour

A&A: (18) swords, daggers, polearms, maces/axes

Michael Pikula: (9) swords, cinquedea dagger, polearms, by-knives

Windlass: (7) miscellaneous daggers and helms

Albion: (6) swords including 1 training blunt

Del Tin: (6) swords including 1 chopper

GDFB: (5) Armour, mostly helms and 1 breast plate

OlliN: (4) swords including 1 training blunt

Generation2: (4) swords including 1 dagger

Valentine Armoury: (3) Armour

Tinker: (3) Type XVII sword, Rondel dagger, kiridashi utility blade

Tod's Stuff: (2) Eared dagger and basilard dagger

Angus Trim: (2) Swords

Hanwei/Tinker: (2) Viking sword and one handed training blunt

Eric McHugh: (1) Viking/Saxon axe

John Gage: (1) Ballock Dagger

Valiant/Atrim: (1) Training Blunt

Cold Steel: (1) Double edged katana

Hanwey: (1) Lance point & butt DIY project

TOTAL: 100 YIKES :eek: and probably a few minor things I missed. ;) :lol:

Total Purchases:

Albion: 4 with one on order (Crecy, Gallowglass, Mercenary, Soldat, with Principe on order)
Michael Pikula: 2 (spearhead and khukri)
Todd's Stuff: 1 (crossbow)
Mercenary's Tailor: 1 (buckler)
Elchon's Workshop: 1 (seax)

Currently I have:
Albion: 1 (Crecy and Principe eventually)
Michael Pikula: 1 (spearhead)
Todd's Stuff: 1 (crossbow)
Mercenary's Tailor: 1 (seax)

Interesting topic :)

Arms & Armor: 3
Merc Tailor: 2
Hanwei: 2
Winter tree: 2
Windrose Armory: 1
Steel Mastery: 1
Windlass: 1
Cold Steel: 4 (poly wasters)
Knights Armory: 1

Albion: 8
A&A: 4
Del Tin: 1
Windlass: 2
Justin King: 1
MAS: 1
Emura: 1

Chad Arnow wrote:

My intent was not to limit these counts to swords only. In fact, it's even more interesting to see which makers are represented throughout your collections, not just in the swords.

Oh.

Um..okay...

Sig Sauer: 2
Spike's Tactical: 1
Colt: 1
Bushmaster: 2
Ruger: 2
Glock: 1
Savage: 1
Kel-Tec: 1
Baikal: 1
Mossberg: 2
Franchi: 1
Stoeger: 1

:) :) :) :)

Other stuff (daggers, seaxes, knives, axes):

Vince Evans: 3
Michael "Tinker" Pearce: 3
Lutel: 2
Paul Binns: 1
Del Tin: 2
MRL (in house): 1
Windlass: 1
Arms & Armor: 2
Gransfors Bruks: 1
Hanwei: 3
CAS Iberia: 1
Kris Cutlery: 1
Deepeeka: 2
G. Gedney Godwin: 1
A&A CZ: 1
Unknown: 5

Albion: 1 (Ringeck)

Hanwei/Tinker: 1 (blunt arming sword)

Armour Class: 2 (sharp cup&ring claymore, blunt halflang)

McRae: 1 (Favorite thing in my collection, beautiful to see and feel. hunting knife)

Hanwei: 1 (Blunt hand 1/2)

Armory Marek: 1 (custom blunt montante)

Joe Lindsay: 2 (targes are weapons right?)

Windlass/Clan Leather Works: 3 (antler hilted dirks)

Wood/Paddded
Purple Heart: 5 (padded pair, basket-hilt pair, rondel)

Hollow Earth: 6 (Shortsword pair, longsword pair, big parrying dagger, claymore/montante)

Ok, this is going to make me look cheap but expensive if you know what I mean...

Windlass: 22-24 (Not sure on how many spearheads I have and am probably missing something, since I'm away from my collection and am doing this from memory.)

Hanwei: 3

Tinker Pearce (Stock Hanwei, not custom): 2

Cold Steel: 2 (Wasters)

Daisy Red Rider: 2 (I guess BB guns kind of count, right?)

Unknown/Assorted knives, hatchets, tomahawks, wallhangers, cheap daggers, sticks, etc: 16 (I think....)

Total: 47-49


Huh... I need to get me something a little higher in quality in there. I didn't realize how many millions of cheap Windlass I have until counting them out in my head.

Last I did some math, I had a little over $2,000 sunk into this collection (not counting the assorted knives and crap I've been collecting since forever), but with my relatively recent MRL Deal of the Day habit and Bruce Brookhart selling me some pieces I'm probably much closer to $3,000 now. Could have had one or two high end Albions or custom toys if I had saved the money and blown it all at once.

Eh, I'll do that at some point. :lol:




Edit: And Jean, you may be surprised at reaching 100, but I'm not surprised at all. ;)

Counting swords and historical weapons only:

Jeroen Zuiderwijk: 4
Neil Burridge: 6
Vladimir Cervenka: 1
Swords from Toledo: 1
Hembrug: 1
Antiques (no known maker): 4
Cold Steel: 1
ATrim: 1

My herd has already been culled


John Lundemo 2
Albion 2
Gus Trim 1
Raw/Lohman 1
Hanwei 2
Kensei 1
Windlass 1
Ronin 1
Jin Long 1
Antique 2


Total 14

Of the dozens I've sold I miss The A & A GBS and AT1315 the most.


EDIT : Wait ... do we count other weapons... I have a few firearms, Airguns, Bo staves, kamas, nunchucka , shuriken, bokken, bows, sling shot and a few dozen knives.

Though I have owned and sold many many more, my current collection consists of relatively few swords in two categories:

Collectable:

Odinblades - 4
Gladius
Spatha
Damascus hand-and-a-half broadsword
Single handed broadsword

Odinblades/Armour Class - 1
AC Basket hilt with Odinblades tripple fullered broadsword blade

Phoenix Metal Creations (Erik Stevenson)/Arms and Armour - 1
Three ring, floral hilted rapier with Arms and Armour blade

Cold Steel - 1
Scottish Basket Hilted Broadsword
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Classical and Sport Fencing:

Foil with electric BF Super Blue FIE Maraging Blade, FWF gen2 electric tip, Zivkovic pistol grip, and other mixed parts - 3

Foil with STM dry blade and BenjaminArms Fleur De Lis guard, cord wrapped French grip, and facetted 85g pommel - 1

Epee with STM blue FIE Maraging blade, FWF gen2 electrip tip, Zivkovic pistol grip, and other mixed parts - 2