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Jason Elrod
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 Posted: Sat 20 May, 2006 10:47 am Post subject: MRL Catalog #90 Front Cover?? |
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It's hard to tell but one of the knights on the cover looks like he's using an A&A French Medieval Sword. Does MRL produce something similar? I couldn't find anything in the catalog. Am I going crazy?
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Chad Arnow
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| Posted: Sat 20 May, 2006 1:38 pm Post subject: Re: MRL Catalog #90 Front Cover?? |
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| Jason Elrod wrote: | | It's hard to tell but one of the knights on the cover looks like he's using an A&A French Medieval Sword. Does MRL produce something similar? I couldn't find anything in the catalog. Am I going crazy? |
Yes.  MRL used to produce a sword based on the same one in the Wallace collection that A&A reproduces. It hasn't been in their catalogue for a while.
ChadA
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Steve Grisetti
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| Posted: Sat 20 May, 2006 4:46 pm Post subject: Re: MRL Catalog #90 Front Cover?? |
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| Chad Arnow wrote: | | Jason Elrod wrote: | | It's hard to tell but one of the knights on the cover looks like he's using an A&A French Medieval Sword. Does MRL produce something similar? I couldn't find anything in the catalog. Am I going crazy? |
Yes. MRL used to produce a sword based on the same one in the Wallace collection that A&A reproduces. It hasn't been in their catalogue for a while. |
Also in Catalog #90, I note that the "Buccaneer" at the lower left corner of page 16 has an interesting looking basket-hilted cutlass. Is this another long-gone product? Unlike current MRL baskets, this hilt seems to be a reasonable volume.
"...dismount thy tuck, be yare in thy preparation, for thy assailant is quick, skilful, and deadly."
- Sir Toby Belch
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T.F. McCraken
Location: Ingleside, Illinois Joined: 13 Apr 2006
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I noticed that odd (for MRL) cutlass myself and wondered if it was a tease for a new offering myself. Suppose we'll have to wait for #91 to find out!
Murphy 
aka "Murphy"
See ya at Bristol Renaissance Faire!
The decisions we make, dictate the life we lead.
"I drank what?" -Socrates
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Shae Bishop
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I would speculate that cutlass is from back in the MRL/DelTin days simply based on the fact that the blade looks very like an old Del Tin cutlass blade I recently got from Atlanta Cutlery, and I have not seen anything like that in MRL's catalog or website in the last few years. Would be nice to see some some new models along those lines though.
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Edward Hitchens
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Hey Jason,
Chad's right; they did produce that sword before. I've even seen it on their website. But I just checked MRL's website a minute ago but didn't see it. 
"The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest." Thomas Jefferson
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T.F. McCraken
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Uhhh, I don't know, guys. I just checked out catalog #29 (Del Tin era, my first catalog from MRL) and I found another cutlass, but, it was a shell guard. Not the one we see in # 90. I'm holding a little hope that with the new Pirates of the Caribbean coming out soon, a new cutlass is in the works.
Just my hopes,
Murphy
aka "Murphy"
See ya at Bristol Renaissance Faire!
The decisions we make, dictate the life we lead.
"I drank what?" -Socrates
www.celticfuryproduction.com
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Henrik Bjoern Boegh
Location: Agder, Norway Joined: 03 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Mon 22 May, 2006 12:19 pm Post subject: |
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Hi guys,
Steve Grisetti wrote:
| Quote: | | Also in Catalog #90, I note that the "Buccaneer" at the lower left corner of page 16 has an interesting looking basket-hilted cutlass. Is this another long-gone product? Unlike current MRL baskets, this hilt seems to be a reasonable volume. |
I haven't got the last MRL catalogue so I took a look at different things at the MRL website and found this picture. It sure looks like an attractive sword! So is it the same one as in this this picture?
And a better look of the blade.
Cheers,
Henrik
Constant and true.
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Edward Hitchens
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You're right, Henrik, that is an attractive sword (... except in the second picture, it's not the sword I'm admiring! ...   ). Sorry Chad! Sorry Nathan! Couldn't resist.
I'm looking at my copy of catalog #90 and I don't see that cutlass as labeled or priced, although both of those pictures are in it. An old Del Tin perhaps? I don't even know when MRL stopped carrying Del Tins. I bet Hank would know.
"The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest." Thomas Jefferson
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Nathan Robinson
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Henrik Bjoern Boegh
Location: Agder, Norway Joined: 03 Mar 2004
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If so, Nathan, I think it would be unfair of them not to offer one to me! 
I think it looks great! A sword with a hilt in the SW11 style and fauchion blade. What a great idea!
Cheers,
Henrik
Constant and true.
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Steve Grisetti
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| Posted: Mon 22 May, 2006 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Henrik Bjoern Boegh wrote: | Hi guys,
Steve Grisetti wrote:
| Quote: | | Also in Catalog #90, I note that the "Buccaneer" at the lower left corner of page 16 has an interesting looking basket-hilted cutlass. Is this another long-gone product? Unlike current MRL baskets, this hilt seems to be a reasonable volume. |
I haven't got the last MRL catalogue so I took a look at different things at the MRL website and found this picture. It sure looks like an attractive sword! So is it the same one as in this this picture?... |
Yes, Henrik, that is the sword that I found interesting.
"...dismount thy tuck, be yare in thy preparation, for thy assailant is quick, skilful, and deadly."
- Sir Toby Belch
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George Doby
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coulodn't see sword in second pic either. got me to thinking what about a babes and sword calender 
don't sweat the petty things, just pet the sweaty things
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Steve Grisetti
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| Posted: Tue 13 Jun, 2006 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Henrik Bjoern Boegh wrote: | If so, Nathan, I think it would be unfair of them not to offer one to me!
I think it looks great! A sword with a hilt in the SW11 style and fauchion blade. What a great idea!
Cheers,
Henrik
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And here it is in the MRL on-line catalog as the "Scottish Cutlass"
"...dismount thy tuck, be yare in thy preparation, for thy assailant is quick, skilful, and deadly."
- Sir Toby Belch
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