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Matthew Bunker
Location: Somerset UK Joined: 02 Apr 2009
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 Posted: Thu 24 May, 2012 3:08 am Post subject: 13th century cleaver scabbards. |
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Wood cored, wool lined, veg tan, natural dyes blah blah blah....
Finished them yesterday a.m., sat outside in the blazing sunshine under the wisteria as the bees buzzed in the background, thinking to myself "I could do this for a living....if I could learn to live on fresh air and didn't mind living in a ditch".
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"If a Greek can do it, two Englishman certainly can !"
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Tomas Bjørkhaug
Location: Oslo, Norway Joined: 10 Jul 2011
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Very beautiful! Impressive!
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Kai Lawson
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I REALLY like these. Full points for awesomeness
"And they crossed swords."
--William Goldman, alias S. Morgenstern
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Jean Thibodeau
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Look very much like giant Bowie Knives. 
Nice and practical looking scabbards.  
You can easily give up your freedom. You have to fight hard to get it back!
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Roberto Banfi
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one of the best repro of the "coltello da ferire" I've ever seen! literally it's "knife for harming" aka war-knife
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Brian Robson
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Verry nice :-)
btw. Where did you get the cleavers from?
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Matthew Bunker
Location: Somerset UK Joined: 02 Apr 2009
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They're not mine ( I don't do anything later than 8th century really, except for the occasional bit of standing at the top of Senlac, waiting for the Normans to catch their breath), they belong to a friend of mine who does Norman and Angevin stuff.
Not sure who made them. I'll ask him.
"If a Greek can do it, two Englishman certainly can !"
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Matthew P. Adams
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Beautiful scabbards, are those blades one sharp and one rebated?
"We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level of our training" Archilochus, Greek Soldier, Poet, c. 650 BC
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Matthew Bunker
Location: Somerset UK Joined: 02 Apr 2009
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| Matthew P. Adams wrote: | | are those blades one sharp and one rebated? |
Yup. One very sharp and one re-enactment combat blunt.
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