[Blaz Berlec]

Well, after a long countdown on his old website (the number of "days to explosion" stayed at 1 for about a week), Pavel Moc, Czech sword maker finally opened his new website. Sorry for this shameless commercial, but It's in best intention to show some pretty reproductions.

http://www.swords.cz

Surely you all speak Czech fluently, so no translation is needed. I can only say, this stuff is practically for free compared to what you get. I hope he hasn't increased his prices too much... If I hadn't just ordered two swords from Radek Lobko, I would be very tempted...


New site is quite an improvement from his old one, but many of his sword models are still missing (or he has discontinued them?). Fortunately there are some new sweets:







Viking sword, pattern welded




Viking or Anglo - Saxon sword




Three different katzbalgers, wild hilt detail!




Hand and a half sword with deeply hollowed reenactment blade (edges are 3 or 4 mm thick I think, but it's still very light and agile)




Ballock dagger

[Russ Ellis]

Oh wow...

[J. Padgett]

I don't mind the shameless promoting at all. I was wondering when his new site would be up. I can't speak Czech, but the website design is pretty easy to figure out despite that. Some very nice stuff.

[Patrick Kelly]

Wild.............................

[Russ Ellis]

I wish he had an English language version so that we had a little more to go on. My Czeck is a bit... non-existant after all. Anyone want to translate?

[Steve Grisetti]

Beautiful stuff!

[Jean Thibodeau]

The language and ordering from Europe ( Never tried that yet. ) aside this stuff looks great and the prices are probably a bargain.

One widget " thingny " on my MAC OS Tiger version does all kinds of unit conversions including money exchange rates but for some reason doesn't include Czeck currency unfortunatly.

So when I look at Czeck prises of 25,000 something I have no clue if it's a bargain or expensive.
( Mostly looking at Lutel so far. )

Anybody know the approximate exchange rate of U.S. ( Canadian for me ) currency versus Czeck currency.

i guess if motivated by really wanting something I would find it. ( Haven't tried yet. )

[Sean Flynt]

Here's a nice currency converter:

http://www.xe.com/ucc/

[Jean Thibodeau]

Sean;

Thank: Will check on those Czeck prices of Lutel later. ( Have to go out and escape my keyboard NOW. )

[Patrick Kelly]

Pavel's work has intrigued me for a long time. It's nice to finally see him get a website up.

[Alex Oster]

"Whats that?"
"Huh? What.. oh thaaat... its just the spear of destiny... ya, know.... killed jesus and all... why?"

Talk about conversational pieces!

I agree fabulus stuff, but not very easy to navagte.

[Steve Grisetti]

[C.L. Miller]

This is a replica of the spear head commonly called the spear of destiny, which currently resides in the Hapsburg museum in Vienna. Like most relics, it's provenence is suspect, to say the least. It seems fairly apparent that this is simply a re-assembled Carolingian "winged" spearhead. Nevertheless, it was accepted for centuries as being "the" spear of destiny, and the relic itself has quite a tale to tell.
Here's a couple pics of the original, pulled from google...





-Christopher Liebtag Miller

[Alex Oster]

Well factual or not, my point is it would be a cool converstional piece.
but yea, my Czech is nonexistant, so the site is just pretty pictures to me.

[George Hill]

[Blaz Berlec]

Very rough translation of Pavel Moc's web page – first page for now. Please understand that my Czech is extremely bad (but I'm excellent at ordering beer), but fortunately I can help myself a bit with my native tongue - Slovene (also Slavic language, and therefore quite similar). Oh, and I’ve used a Czech – English online translator which can translate whole web pages. Unfortunately it’s almost useless and I understand better without it…

http://www.translation-guide.com/free_online_...to=English

On the left frame you have links: novinky (news), firma (company), výrobky (products), kontakt (contact)


News:

Introduction

Blacksmithing and swordsmithing firm from Kolín is proudly presenting its new web page, where our products are clearer, better and more modernly represented. We recommend you to pay attention especially to weapons represented in (BEST OF) and new items from our line of forged weapons. We wish our visitors much of aesthetical pleasures.

Pavel Moc (Paul Strength), company director

And description of sword making, copied directly from online translator. It's fun read, I nearly died at the sentence: For example capital them ever more naražena within bullshit sticker extraction fitting out of řapu lamina.

Very thechnical language...




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JELLY? LOL

[Russ Ellis]

Thanks Blaz! Waiting for the next installments..

[Risto Rautiainen]

We use Pavel's swords regularly for training and the last two swords we got from him were excellent. As the earlier ones we had were of a different model, we don't know but can only assume that Pavel has moved to making the blades a bit hollow ground. This makes these longswords very light and agile training weapons. And dirt cheap too, the ones we have now cost something like 270 euros!

[Blaz Berlec]

Sorry for not "installing" any new translations, but I have been busy and, after all, you better get someone who actually speaks Czech for this work.

Risto, I have seen his new models which are not on his home page (but were listed an a page by a Danish reseller I think). My friend has one, and several others are ordering them. They have very thick edges (around 4 mm I think), but a lot of hollow grinding, so they are light and flexible. The only thing I don't like about them is that the blade vibrates a lot when it's struck on the flat. Bu I guess you get used to it - the first time I parried with it I nearly dropped it, I was so suprised at the reaction of the sword.

There are now several "new" swords on his page - some were already shown on his old page (mostly only as drawings) or you could see them on homepage of Arma Bohemia, which also sells some items made by Pavel Moc.

OK, here are some of the new items:





Beautyful Norman sword




One handed sword, "ITALY ESTOC" model




One and a half handed sword "DÜRRER"




Longswords Viollet and Embleton


I hope he doesn't mind getting all of the extra bandwidth.

[Risto Rautiainen]

Blaz, the ones we got didn't have that thick edges, maybe 2mm or so. And they weren't that much hollow ground. The new ones were the model Violet. Swee-eet! BTW thanks for the new pics, we have a lot of those Dürers!