That is not funny -munny Hugh.

Meanwhile GGG have confirmed they can (up to a point) customise the pieces to match, so :cool:

I am considering to combine the colichemarde and hunting sword as the sabre would be pushing the envelope and these two fit the idea best.

peter

Go for it, Peter! I am looking forward to some photos of whatever you end up getting since GGG's site does not have the best photography

Jonathan

Peter, would you mind explaining to me how you would combine a colichemarde blade with a saber blade? My mind cannot seem to get around that concept. :confused: :confused: Perhaps my imagination is a bit too constricted, as my son used to say about my illustrations for his fantasy games. My illustrations were too historically accurate.

Yes I mean to buy TWO swords.

I am not sure wether I undestand Hugh's question though.
My son grasps the concepts of poking with an epee and slashing with a sabre as completely differing . Thát made me realise that to master both díffering techniques is would be wise to seperate the functions and thus blades. Therefor De Saunier may have encouraged training with both even though the cavalier may have used a cut&thrust blade combining the two techniques in óne tool.
After all the Patton sword is a 'sabre' mainly for thrusting to give an example of interconceptual :eek: functionality ;)

As I do not intend nor pretend to master anything with these things beyond a basic understanding of swordsmanship to add to my ríding skills, I thus choose the two civilian swords. On the one hand because my character is and on the other because think they can me made into a very nice matching pair :!: ánd match the saddlegun.

Btw Hugh, I guess you son will like my approach to a saddlegun for the character: a flintlock 'coach gun' with saddle ring facilitating a reload :cool: I am sure similar thingies must have been used even if not historically correct in the sense that we have no actually surviving example :lol:

peter

Peter, I was trying to picture a combination of epee and saber into one blade and could not see howe it would work. I had misunderstood what it was that you planned upon doing. My mistake.

As to your "saddlegun" I assume that you mean by "coachgun" a bell-mouth blunderbuss. With a ring attached to sling it from a carbine sling, it should be a most effective close range weapon that would be fairly easy to recharge. That was the real purpose of the bell mouth. The tricky part to reloading a flintlock on horse back, so I have heard, is repriming the pan.

Peter,
Any updates on your swords from Godwin?

Jonathan