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PostPosted: Wed 02 Feb, 2005 1:25 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Wed 02 Feb, 2005 1:30 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Hey Mac, one of those pieces looks very familiar. Is it owned by Alex Chin?

Here are some photos I took a couple years ago:



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PostPosted: Wed 02 Feb, 2005 1:36 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Hi Nathan

Yes .... Alex asked Vince to try and sell it for him, at the show, as he needed to raise some funds for a new car !

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PostPosted: Wed 02 Feb, 2005 1:44 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

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Yes .... Alex asked Vince to try and sell it for him, at the show, as he needed to raise some funds for a new car !

Cool. I'm glad you got a chance to see it. It's a great sword and much smaller than one might expect.

That basket-hilt looks especially nice of Vince's. I'm also extremely excited to hear about the new toy you brought home.

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PostPosted: Wed 02 Feb, 2005 2:01 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Nathan Robinson wrote:
Thomas McDonald wrote:
Yes .... Alex asked Vince to try and sell it for him, at the show, as he needed to raise some funds for a new car !

Cool. I'm glad you got a chance to see it. It's a great sword and much smaller than one might expect.
That basket-hilt looks especially nice of Vince's. I'm also extremely excited to hear about the new toy you brought home.


Hey Nathan

It was funny .... I'd seen Alex's sword so many times in pictures that I felt like I knew it !
It was very very nice ...... handled so quick & smooth that it must just scream when cutting !

Always hard letting something of that quality go !
Although I don't believe that it actually sold at the show ?
(I think Alex was asking somewhere in the low 3's for it, if I remember correctly ! )

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PostPosted: Wed 02 Feb, 2005 2:37 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

A most awesome sword from the good folks at Albion Armorers !

Many thanks to Mike & Harlan for all the laughs & sharp & pointy fun !

You boys are sword selling machines, Mac



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PostPosted: Wed 02 Feb, 2005 2:52 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

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A most awesome sword from the good folks at Albion Armorers !

Many thanks to Mike & Harlan for all the laughs & sharp & pointy fun !

You boys are sword selling machines, Mac


Hey Mac,

I'm not sure how visible it was, but believe it or not (from the pics) the top 1/8" or so of the central finger of the Caithness pommel is actually the hot-peened tang. Eric and the guys do a great job of reshaping and blending the peens after they are done smacking them with a hammer.

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PostPosted: Wed 02 Feb, 2005 2:56 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Mac,

I had a chance to handle your new toy yesterday when I visited with Vince and Grace (who stopped at Grace's sister's house, which fortuitously was only 16 miles from my house). What a wonderful piece. I had wild visions of walking off with it; it would've been an interesting companion piece to my Turcael.

I picked up the beautiful Oxtail Sabre, and will post pics and stats when I get the chance, probably after the SuperBowl.

Ben,

I try to go against racial stereotypes, so I do not normally go armed with a camera, so no pictures from the SHOT Show. Sorry. I did see a number of wonderful items, and frankly, would prefer that the SHOT Show be held a different weekend from the Custom Knife Show.
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PostPosted: Wed 02 Feb, 2005 3:08 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Jason Dingledine wrote:
Hey Mac,
I'm not sure how visible it was, but believe it or not (from the pics) the top 1/8" or so of the central finger of the Caithness pommel is actually the hot-peened tang. Eric and the guys do a great job of reshaping and blending the peens after they are done smacking them with a hammer.


Hi Jason

Wow, that is amazing ..... what excellent work, I never noticed that !

After holding the two Conan swords again I started getting a strange desire to run for Governor of Las Vegas !

Governor Mac ..... has a nice ring of steel to it, 'eh !

Dat which does not Killzz uzzz makes uzzz STRONGER !



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PostPosted: Wed 02 Feb, 2005 3:34 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Wow,

Nice pictures everyone! I can see that staying away from these shows is a good way keep money in wallet Big Grin . Still, spending it is fun too Cool . I love that turkish saber by Vince. One of these days I want to get a custom kilij from Vince.

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PostPosted: Wed 02 Feb, 2005 5:44 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Oh man.... it must have been a blast!

Someday I gotta make it to Vegas (I keep saying that....)!

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PostPosted: Wed 02 Feb, 2005 7:22 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Stephen S. Han wrote:
Mac,
I had a chance to handle your new toy yesterday when I visited with Vince and Grace (who stopped at Grace's sister's house, which fortuitously was only 16 miles from my house). What a wonderful piece. I had wild visions of walking off with it; it would've been an interesting companion piece to my Turcael.
I picked up the beautiful Oxtail Sabre, and will post pics and stats when I get the chance, probably after the SuperBowl.


Hi Steve

Only fair that you got to play with my new toy since I spent some time playing with yours :-)
Wonderful sword your oxtail ..... the minute I saw it I said to Vince & Grace "Steve will most certainly buy this one" ;-)

So, your creeping up on me pretty fast in the total VE count, and certainly pulling way ahead in the pattern welded VE dept !
Man, you guys are relentless :-)

Speaking of cool old baskethilts .........

While roaming the antique aisles Vince pointed out another awesome old basket-hilt that was leaning all by its lonesome !
It really was a nice old sword and felt quite good in hand !
* Checkout that interesting old basket repair that was welded & riveted on there .... very cool ;-)

I think this was was selling for about $3,500. , if my overloaded old memory is serving me right ? Mac



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PostPosted: Wed 02 Feb, 2005 8:03 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Okay ..... next I gotta rave on about a special sword that a good friend brought to the show for all of us to oogle at !

Tom Bassier has been an avid collector for sometime, both antique & modern, and through our association with Vince we have gotten to be good friends, albeit long distance ones !
(Tom keeps up with the Forum here (when he's able to) but I don't believe he's actually posted yet !)

In tow with him were a few of his gems ..... the first of which was his new, and most incredible, Howard Clark katana, polished & fitted by Ted Tenold of Legacy Arts Swords

Tom gave me a few quick stats on it (below) but more will be written on this awesome piece soon !

Great to finally meet you, Tom ! Mac

Sword weight - ?
Length of blade - +36"
Length of handle - + 13.5"
Full bo-hi
Blade - Howard Clark "replicated" a 13th Century Rai School (at least that was the basis)
Fittings - antique (han dachi style)
Tsuba - by Patrick Hastings
Polish & built - by Ted Tenold
In the saya it is plus 52" or 53" inches overall.
It is the long sword of a daisho set .... the matching short sword is to follow, with the same antique fittings, and same custom tsuba by Patrick Hastings, but the blade will be an antique wakisashi ...not an HC .



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Continued .....


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PostPosted: Wed 02 Feb, 2005 8:49 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Nice Katana! One of these days I may own a set myself (why did did those ancients have to invent so many cool swords Razz Cool ). Methinks I noticed something else as well... is that the new and improved Agincourt that Mike (or Harlan) is holding? Big Grin
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Congrats on the new/old sword Mac! It looks like a good catch. The blade shape gives it a wonderful look.

I love that Langseax on Vince's table. I definitely would have been drooling over that one if I'd been there.

It's sad for me to see photos of that pattern welded dagger too. I tried my best to come up with the money to buy that one, but no joy. I hope it made some collector happy.

My youngest son's birthday was this last weekend, that's what ultimately prevented me from attending. My wife and I had intended on flying out by ourselves and leaving him with friends. I don't know why it didn't dawn on me that it was his B-day!

I still plan on seeing everyone in Atlanta though!

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is that the new and improved Agincourt that Mike (or Harlan) is holding?

That's Mike, no that is my Brescia Razz

That Clark katana was just pure amazing!!! Also, Tom Bassier had brought his V.Evans made Claymore that was just stunning to look at and hold Eek!




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More of truly amazing work of William & Elizabeth Lloyd. Eek! Eek!





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PostPosted: Thu 03 Feb, 2005 5:55 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Wonderful shots you took there, Ben ..... nice job !
There really were some incredible pieces at the shows this year !

We wished you had been able to attend too, Patrick, but certainly understand that Mini-Me's birthday should rank first & foremost ! Atlanta will be here before you know it and hopefully we'll all be able to be in attendance for that !
Besides all of the amazing bladed weapons at Vegas this year you would have been in heaven looking at the vintage firearms ..... Man, they had more rifles & handguns there than they did at the battle of Waterloo, the Alamo, and The Little Bighorn, combined !!

Ben mentioned that Tom Bassier had brought in his custom Vince Evans claymore ..... well he certainly did, and man it was impressive to behold !
Tom had commissioned this piece awhile back, telling Vince he wanted something with a long tapering blade
(pattern welded of course) terminating in a wicked point, yet stiff enough to drive into a beasts hide !
The grip had to be long, of bone, and would be the type of sword that Odin himself would carry to slay Dragons with ! Vince of course took up the challege .... and so born of the fire was Ragnarok

Tom also brought along his VE baskethilt, which has a beautiful basket-hilt based upon a piece in the 'Culloden The Swords & the Sorrows' book, 1:42 , complete with white ray skin grip, buff leather liner, & sword knot !
The blade on Tom's sword is pattern welded, though, and both this one & Ragnarok feature engraved markings, XX ANDREA FERARA XX , etc., on the pattern welded steel. Very cool !

Also along for our fun & spectacle was an antique rapier that Tom accquired recently ......
The sword is a real beauty .... solid in hand, light & lively, & gave a good sense of command when put in motion !

Many thanks to Tom for lugging all these great swords to the show, just so that we could all enjoy them !
It was very much appreciated and an honor to make his, and their, acquaintance !

Mac



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