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Jen Miilu
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 Posted: Thu 22 Dec, 2011 3:11 pm Post subject: My Last sword..just Broke |
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Hello Everyone!
My Last sword.......Just Broke!! it happens, but this Angus thrim cutter treated me so well I felt i needed to honor it in this post!
Still looking for the last 12inches of the blade.
this may also be the next sword ill collect if i can Find it.
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Zach Luna
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| Posted: Thu 22 Dec, 2011 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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 What happened???
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Paul B.G
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| Posted: Thu 22 Dec, 2011 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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Hmm looks like you have been breaking rocks  and what happened to the pommel?
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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Sam Gordon Campbell
Location: Australia. Joined: 16 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Thu 22 Dec, 2011 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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Well, if it treated you so well, perhaps you could recycle it into a different sword or other such weapon?
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Bryan W.
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| Posted: Thu 22 Dec, 2011 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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How on earth did you break a sword like that?
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William Swiger
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How did it happen?
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Marik C.S.
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| Posted: Fri 23 Dec, 2011 1:50 am Post subject: |
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Somehow that picture fits well into that "10 years since the first LotR Movie" Thread. The blade that was broken, maybe it will be reforged?
On a different note, I can't help but join the choir of "How did you manage to do that?"
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Gene W
Location: The South Of England Joined: 01 Dec 2010
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New years project: two daggers
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Ben Bouchard
Location: Bar Harbor, ME Joined: 17 Sep 2006
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Hell--I'd leave it as-is and have a short scabbard made for it. It has character. 
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Bartek Strojek
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La Chanson de Roland reenacting?
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Daniel Wallace
Location: Pennsylvania USA Joined: 07 Aug 2011
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| Posted: Fri 23 Dec, 2011 10:12 am Post subject: |
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i know it's already been said like 10 times in this post but for the sake of St. Paul's beard, what the heck did you do!?!?
i've seen steel break from over stressing caused by deflection but the way you chose to photograph it makes me want to stab at a joke. you haven't been using it to cut paving stones or a jack hammer tip i hope.
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Sam Barris
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| Marik C.S. wrote: | | Somehow that picture fits well into that "10 years since the first LotR Movie" Thread. The blade that was broken, maybe it will be reforged? |
Ha. You beat me to it. Light the beacons and send word to the elves! Atrimduril shall be reforged!
Pax,
Sam Barris
"Any nation that draws too great a distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools." —Thucydides
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Colt Reeves
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| Posted: Fri 23 Dec, 2011 4:12 pm Post subject: |
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Add me as one more gawking bystander who wants to know how it got broken. I mean, swords break. The pommel coming off or the blade breaking out of the blue for no obvious reason wouldn't surprise me much even if it were a top of the line custom or Albion, but both? Please tell me there is an interesting story here.
Edit: The fact that you can't find the last 12 inches suggests it was interesting...
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Halters for the silly neck that cannot keep a crown.
As my loss is grievous, so my hope is small.
For Iron, Cold Iron, must be master of men all..."
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Wilhelm V.S.
Location: USA Joined: 17 Dec 2011
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Mother of God, man! "Still looking for the rest of the blade"? What happened to that sword?
Deus Vult!
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Ryan McLaurin
Location: California Joined: 12 May 2008
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Since we haven't had an answer yet about what happened to the sword, I do believe it's time to start speculating. I think you guys are interpreting it incorrectly. He wasn't cutting stones. Looks to me like it fell off a cliff and landed on that stone. Perhaps he was out for a hike on a ridge, and sword enthusiasts being sword enthusiasts, he was wearing his sword. Possibly he had to draw the sword rapidly to either defend against a swooping dragon or a small tree branch blocking his trail. The draw was made awkward by the back-scabbard he usually carries the sword in, and he fumbled. Over the edge of the cliff went the sword, with the results shown in the pictures. Sounds plausible to me .
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P. Cha
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Not to sound like a broken record...but how the heck did you do that?!?
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David Hohl
Location: Oregon Joined: 07 Feb 2011
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If he's still looking for pieces, perhaps he loaded it into a ballista and went duck hunting. Or whatever you hunt with flying swords.
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Zach Luna
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| David Hohl wrote: | | Or whatever you hunt with flying swords. |
Fell beasts. 
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David Clark
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I'll bet anything a ninja cut it in half with a katana.
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Joe Fults
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| David Clark wrote: | | I'll bet anything a ninja cut it in half with a katana. |
Can't be anything else...unless maybe they had lasers!
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