Info Favorites Register Log in
myArmoury.com Discussion Forums

Forum index Memberlist Usergroups Spotlight Topics Search
Forum Index > Off-topic Talk > My sword broke Reply to topic
This is a standard topic Go to page 1, 2, 3  Next 
Author Message
Jen Miilu




Location: CA
Joined: 15 Feb 2011
Likes: 1 page

Posts: 29

PostPosted: Thu 22 Dec, 2011 3:11 pm    Post subject: My Last sword..just Broke         Reply with quote

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.



 Attachment: 175.8 KB
photo.JPG

View user's profile Send private message
Zach Luna




Location: Los Angeles
Joined: 04 Jul 2010
Likes: 11 pages

Posts: 170

PostPosted: Thu 22 Dec, 2011 10:20 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Eek! What happened???
View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website
Paul B.G




Location: Victoria, Australia
Joined: 01 May 2011
Likes: 2 pages

Posts: 140

PostPosted: Thu 22 Dec, 2011 10:50 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Hmm looks like you have been breaking rocks Wink and what happened to the pommel?
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person

O====[::::::::::::::::::::::::::::>

Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

—Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ulysses
View user's profile Send private message
Sam Gordon Campbell




Location: Australia.
Joined: 16 Nov 2008

Posts: 678

PostPosted: Thu 22 Dec, 2011 10:57 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Well, if it treated you so well, perhaps you could recycle it into a different sword or other such weapon?
Member of Australia's Stoccata School of Defence since 2008.
Host of Crash Course HEMA.
Founder of The Van Dieman's Land Stage Gladiators.
View user's profile Send private message
Bryan W.





Joined: 27 Oct 2007

Posts: 198

PostPosted: Thu 22 Dec, 2011 11:09 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

How on earth did you break a sword like that?
View user's profile Send private message
William Swiger




Location: Reston, VA
Joined: 23 Feb 2011
Likes: 50 pages
Reading list: 9 books

Posts: 443

PostPosted: Fri 23 Dec, 2011 1:29 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Eek! Eek! How did it happen?
View user's profile Send private message
Marik C.S.




Location: Germany
Joined: 16 Feb 2010

Posts: 163

PostPosted: Fri 23 Dec, 2011 1:50 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

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?"

Europe - Where the History comes from. - Eddie Izzard
View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website ICQ Number
Gene W




Location: The South Of England
Joined: 01 Dec 2010

Posts: 116

PostPosted: Fri 23 Dec, 2011 3:22 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

New years project: two daggers
View user's profile Send private message
Ben Bouchard




Location: Bar Harbor, ME
Joined: 17 Sep 2006

Posts: 47

PostPosted: Fri 23 Dec, 2011 7:55 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Hell--I'd leave it as-is and have a short scabbard made for it. It has character. Big Grin
"We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, paper-walled prison our convicts, the little black printed words, when in truth we need fresh sounds to utter, new enfranchised noises which would produce a new effect."
— Mervyn Peake
View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website AIM Address
Bartek Strojek




Location: Poland
Joined: 05 Aug 2008
Likes: 23 pages

Posts: 496

PostPosted: Fri 23 Dec, 2011 8:02 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

La Chanson de Roland reenacting?
View user's profile Send private message
Daniel Wallace




Location: Pennsylvania USA
Joined: 07 Aug 2011

Posts: 580

PostPosted: Fri 23 Dec, 2011 10:12 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

i know it's already been said like 10 times in this post but Eek! 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.
View user's profile Send private message
Sam Barris




Location: San Diego, California
Joined: 29 Apr 2004
Likes: 4 pages

Posts: 630

PostPosted: Fri 23 Dec, 2011 12:00 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

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! Big Grin

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
View user's profile Send private message Yahoo Messenger
Colt Reeves





Joined: 09 Mar 2009

Posts: 466

PostPosted: Fri 23 Dec, 2011 4:12 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

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...

"Tears are for the craven, prayers are for the clown.
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..."
-Cold Iron, Rudyard Kipling
View user's profile Send private message
Wilhelm V.S.




Location: USA
Joined: 17 Dec 2011

Posts: 8

PostPosted: Fri 23 Dec, 2011 7:11 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Mother of God, man! "Still looking for the rest of the blade"? What happened to that sword?
Deus Vult!
View user's profile Send private message
Ryan McLaurin




Location: California
Joined: 12 May 2008

Posts: 40

PostPosted: Fri 23 Dec, 2011 7:13 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

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 Wink .
View user's profile Send private message
P. Cha




PostPosted: Fri 23 Dec, 2011 7:54 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Not to sound like a broken record...but how the heck did you do that?!?
View user's profile Send private message
David Hohl




Location: Oregon
Joined: 07 Feb 2011

Posts: 58

PostPosted: Fri 23 Dec, 2011 8:10 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

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.
View user's profile Send private message
Zach Luna




Location: Los Angeles
Joined: 04 Jul 2010
Likes: 11 pages

Posts: 170

PostPosted: Fri 23 Dec, 2011 8:27 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

David Hohl wrote:
Or whatever you hunt with flying swords.


Fell beasts. Cool
View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website
David Clark





Joined: 10 Feb 2009

Posts: 132

PostPosted: Fri 23 Dec, 2011 10:01 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

I'll bet anything a ninja cut it in half with a katana. Wink
View user's profile Send private message
Joe Fults




Location: Midwest
Joined: 02 Sep 2003

Posts: 3,646

PostPosted: Fri 23 Dec, 2011 10:09 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

David Clark wrote:
I'll bet anything a ninja cut it in half with a katana. Wink


Can't be anything else...unless maybe they had lasers!

"The goal shouldn’t be to avoid being evil; it should be to actively do good." - Danah Boyd
View user's profile Send private message


Display posts from previous:   
Forum Index > Off-topic Talk > My sword broke
Page 1 of 3 Reply to topic
Go to page 1, 2, 3  Next All times are GMT - 8 Hours

View previous topic :: View next topic
Jump to:  
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
You cannot attach files in this forum
You can download files in this forum






All contents © Copyright 2003-2024 myArmoury.com — All rights reserved
Discussion forums powered by phpBB © The phpBB Group
Switch to the Basic Low-bandwidth Version of the forum