A&A Nov Specials
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November News from Arms & Armor


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Arms & Armor News for November includes some upcoming things and a Highlight Item. We also have a couple new swords on the Muster Page

We have our #241 Köln Messer as a Highlight Item through Nov 27th! Check it out here
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We will also be featuring some specials at the end of the month and inviting anyone local to our shop on Nov 30th for Sword Saturday! There will be in house specials, food, activities, demonstrations and info for all. Watch here for more details, check our news page or A&A Facebook.

We hope as the holidays draw near life is good.

Best From all of us at A&A Inc.
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Craig,
Great looking swords ... Congratulations on getting this done !
See you this afternoon.
Tim
I like the looks of the swords for sure!
Pics of sword in hand.
I had a couple of requests for pics of the muster swords in hand. I thought I would place them here in case others where interested as well.

Craig


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Hi Craig,

How much flex do these swords have? More thrust or cut oriented- or just a nice combination of the two?
Sword flex
Jeremy V. Krause wrote:
Hi Craig,

How much flex do these swords have? More thrust or cut oriented- or just a nice combination of the two?


Hi Jeremy

They probably flex about two inches or so with a firm push. They are definitely going to do well in the thrust but with their width they cut quite effectively. I would say they are a good combination of the two.

Best
Craig
These are beautiful...please make more!

These would probably make excellent cutting swords too. A lot of people ask for reasonably priced cutting swords. The Albion Crecy is great, but the handle is too short. These look perfect! (but make them cheaper!!)
Hi Mike
HI Mike

Glad you like the look of them. They do cut nicely, we took them to some targets and they did quite well.

As for a discussion of cost to price ratio in the modern ecnonmy for well made swords, I am happy to dicuss, but we should probably start a new thread as I suspect it would be busy. :-)

Craig
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Craig Johnson wrote:
As for a discussion of cost to price ratio in the modern ecnonmy for well made swords, I am happy to dicuss, but we should probably start a new thread as I suspect it would be busy. :-)


Hey Craig,

I suspect that Micheal did not mean these particular swords should be priced at a lower point (they are already a steal at this price). Rather, that something similar but with a more rudimentary finish (and therefore less expensive than your normal products) would be good for people who want to do cutting practice.

I like these blades - they look beefier than the XV you made last year (the one I bought). I suppose these ones are getting into XVIII territory, but I was thinking of something close to this combined with a single hand grip inspired by early XVs...remember my thread on that topic? We'll talk in the new year if I manage to save up some dough. ;)

- Doug
Yes, exactly, what JD said!

Also, one of our NYHFA guys bought one, and I'm trying to get another one to buy the remaining sword. These are way too nice to allow to go to just anyone. :)
Been coveting the Koln messer since it was first introduced....birthday is in about a month, so I just ordered it as my birthday present to myself! :D
Victor R. wrote:
Been coveting the Koln messer since it was first introduced....birthday is in about a month, so I just ordered it as my birthday present to myself! :D


Victor: I purchased the first one and it's a very elegant single edged blade, very comfortable in the hand: Hard to describe it but it just feel " RIGHT ".

Even if the blade is fairly narrow it takes a razor edge, if one wants it that sharp, because of the triangular cross section, giving it some decent cutting ability in a draw cut, although it doesn't have the mass forward for heavy cleaving type cuts, so it's not a chopper.

The blade is stout and thick enough that it is a useful in the thrust as a rondel dagger, and could easily do anything a rondel could do as many rondels have similar blade cross sections and profiles.

Anyway, hope you like yours as much as I like mine.
Sword Saturday Nov 30th
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Join us for Sword Saturday

Just a bump to let anyone who is in striking distance of us on Saturday Nov 30th we will have demos, discount and fun for everyone from 10:30 to 3 at the Arms & Armor Shop!

The address is 1101 Stinson Blvd, Minneapolis MN

See some old swords, some new ( still warm from the forge :eek: ), we will have some treats and young folk activities. Learn how we do some of our operations and talk swords :)

Happy Holidays from all the crew at Arms & Armor.
Barring unforeseen circumstances, a friend and I are planning on coming over for the Sword Saturday. Making it a little bit of a road trip from Eau Claire, WI to Minneapolis. As a new guy just starting to become interested in the subject, I think this would be a perfect event to see the swords in person and not just pictures online.
Welcome
Hi Robert

We look forward to meeting you. Be sure to introduce yourself and we will put some swords in your hand :)

Craig
Totally enjoyed the Sword Saturday! It was great to meet and talk with the guys and handle some great weapons.

The old originals were awesome to see and handle. I particularly loved the Basket-hilt you had there, it felt almost perfect to me.

Thanks for a great event.

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