A beautiful messer -- myArmoury.com

Nathan Robinson · myArmoury Admin

As some of you might know, I bought myself an Albion Soldat grosse messer during their 25% off sale they had awhile back.

I thought maybe I'd hold onto it for a bit and then sell it. The big sale would allow me to at least recoup my money. Once it arrived, I liked it so much, I decided I had to keep it. It's an absolutely fantastic piece and of a type that I've wanted for many years. Keeper all the way.

After selling a few things to justify the expense, I made up my mind that I wanted to have a scabbard made for it. It'll be a little while before I'm able to get that done, but in the meantime, I wanted to have a by-knife and pricker made that would fit in the messer's scabbard.

I commissioned the by-knife and pricker from Tod's Stuff. I only asked for the grips to made from walnut to be similar to the Soldat and for there to be integrated bolsters. Tod was quick to make them and once they arrived, I realized that even the smallest projects with him produce great results.

Shortly before he completed the by-knife and pricker, he posted some items for sale that he already had in stock. One of these was a bauernwehr / hauswehr. Being a fan of these types of knives, I snatched it up and asked Tod if he could stain the wood a bit darker to better fit with the Soldat kit I was putting together. He did one better and replaced the grip scales with the same walnut he used for the by-knife and pricker. The walnut scale grip construction, nagel, and single-edged blade are very reminiscent of the Soldat.

The result? It's now a set of knives that are very complimentary to each other. I have a scabbard already for the bauernwehr (not shown in the photos) and will be getting one made in the future for the Soldat and by-knife/pricker set. Together, these things are going to great! The idea will be not to have anything match, because that would look silly, but instead fit together in a cohesive way. I think it's well on its way to that goal already.

Shown here are the blades. Once everything is completed, I'll show the set again and will add everything to my Collection Gallery with full measurements and whatnot.

Thanks for looking.

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Chad Arnow · myArmoury Team

That's a nice-looking set. Happy

They go together well without looking like you tried to have them go together (if that makes sense). Happy

George P. · Posted: Sat 20 Jun, 2009 11:53 am Post subject:

Truly magnificent. Cool

I'm interested in seeing the scabbards as well.

Matthew G.M. Korenkiewicz · Posted: Sat 20 Jun, 2009 12:01 pm Post subject:

Very nice stuff, NR ... It'll be interesting to see the scabbard done for your Soldat, as well
as how you fit the knives into things. Have you anyone in mind ???

M. Eversberg II · Posted: Sat 20 Jun, 2009 12:17 pm Post subject:

I'm seeing green! The soldat is one of my favorite Albion pieces (probably in 3rd place), and I've only seen two or three people actually show theirs off.

If you get a chance, certainly do a review for those four items, particularly the larger two knives (messer and hauswehr).

M.

Bartek Strojek · Posted: Sat 20 Jun, 2009 12:28 pm Post subject:

Glorious!

They look really medieval together !

PS. So Soldat's grip is available in different colours too? Yours is brown, on Albion site it's black, and there is no info about colours.

Nathan Robinson · myArmoury Admin

This is the basic design for the scabbard.

Nathan Robinson · myArmoury Admin

Artis Aboltins · Posted: Sat 20 Jun, 2009 12:54 pm Post subject:

It definitelly looks like a nice set you got there, can't wait to see how the scabbard will look like when done.

Olov Tidemalm · Posted: Sat 20 Jun, 2009 1:05 pm Post subject:

Holy mother of...!! O_O I have to get me one of those!!! Truly magnificent!

Danny Grigg · Posted: Sat 20 Jun, 2009 8:11 pm Post subject:

Nathan

Are you going to do a review on all 4 items?

If so any idea when it will be posted?

Danny

Nathan Robinson · myArmoury Admin

Andrew Maxwell · Posted: Sun 21 Jun, 2009 3:22 am Post subject:

Tim Lison · Posted: Sun 21 Jun, 2009 10:27 am Post subject:

Cool stuff Nathan. I have to say that when you get swords. knives, etc. you do it right! The "suite" that you will have created once you have the scabbard will be very, very nice. Looking forward to the pics!

Joe Fults · Posted: Sun 21 Jun, 2009 12:40 pm Post subject:

That's lovely so far...going to be neat to see the finished whole.

Patrick Kelly · Posted: Mon 22 Jun, 2009 4:35 pm Post subject:

That will be quite the ensemble when it's done. There's a lot of interesting variation in the pieces themselves but they fit together in a nice complementary way, there's a lot of interesting shapes and proportions going on there as well. It all reminds me of how much I'd like to add a messer to my collection.

Very cool.

Sean Flynt · Posted: Tue 23 Jun, 2009 7:06 am Post subject:

Oh, what a collection! That Bauernwehr! The Messer! The by-knives! Couldn't get much better.

As for black scales--horn, maybe?

Christopher Gregg · Posted: Tue 23 Jun, 2009 7:25 am Post subject:

Oooooohhhhh!!! Super nice!!! Can't wait to see the finished project. Dammit, this is exactly what I want to have done. Frakkin' economy! Congratulations on what will be an awesome set, Nathan! Cool

Chris

Sean Flynt · Posted: Tue 23 Jun, 2009 7:28 am Post subject:

You need a "black" sallet, too.

Jean Henri Chandler · Posted: Tue 23 Jun, 2009 11:27 am Post subject:

Those are really incredible together, I am seriously, seriously jealous. Congratulations.

That Albion messer actually scares me.

I want a hauswher so bad !

J