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I'd recommend stropbros. com. I have one from when it was stropman and have followed them since before the original guy died! Great quality and choice. I love my BillyStrop. It's like therapy, stropping my knives. Good luck with the search!
 
JFK - I have emailed them and I believe I may be looking into one of their strops. Thanks a lot.

Londinium - I like Butterfly Swords, short swords, fencing swords, and Katanas. I think fencing is awesome, I was thinking of joining a club. The steel swords have been made out of the past 10 - 15 years is really impressive. I can't wait to see what comes out over the next five years. I have a feeling swords are about to level up in quality.
 
IXIRoninIXI said:
JFK - I have emailed them and I believe I may be looking into one of their strops. Thanks a lot.

Londinium - I like Butterfly Swords, short swords, fencing swords, and Katanas. I think fencing is awesome, I was thinking of joining a club. The steel swords have been made out of the past 10 - 15 years is really impressive. I can't wait to see what comes out over the next five years. I have a feeling swords are about to level up in quality.
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Cool,I like all of those things as well, you would enjoy fencing it's really good, I love it. I mainly do historical fencing but I dabble in some Epee as well, tried foil for a few weeks and didn't like the rules. I Joined Scholagladiatoria in London but had to take care of my son on their training days, so I opened up my own club and held it on friday nights and the weekend instead, then the lockdown came and I had to close my club.
so right now I don't do any HEMA fencing except private training, sometimes I go to my uncles dojo, he does Kendo and Judo there, pretty cool actually, it's built completely out of wood by his Russian contractor friends, has a traditional sauna and steam room in it as well. I should use it more often actually.
 
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Cool,I like all of those things as well, you would enjoy fencing it's really good, I love it. I mainly do historical fencing but I dabble in some Epee as well, tried foil for a few weeks and didn't like the rules. I Joined Scholagladiatoria in London but had to take care of my son on their training days, so I opened up my own club and held it on friday nights and the weekend instead, then the lockdown came and I had to close my club.
so right now I don't do any HEMA fencing except private training, sometimes I go to my uncles dojo, he does Kendo and Judo there, pretty cool actually, it's built completely out of wood by his Russian contractor friends, has a traditional sauna and steam room in it as well. I should use it more often actually.
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Sounds pretty awesome man. You can message me if you want to talk more about fencing. I don't know much about it, but I can always learn. Half the terms you've used already are another language to me.
 
IXIRoninIXI said:
Thanks guys. I have loved knives since I have had a memory. My hands certainly show I've loved knives for a long time. They have some scars. My grandfather always had a small Wenger Swiss Army knife. You know, the one that is basically a finger nail kit? He used the scissors for everything but Christmas presents, which he'd precisely open. I'd constantly try and take his knife from him. He passed away a few years ago unfortunately. When I went through his dresser, I found his knife he was using the last years of his life, plus an identical new one in a box. I use the one he used till this day, and I don't touch the other one. He was a veteran. My father and my uncle's were hunters. BUCK knife was something I never heard the end of. So for those reasons, knowing how often you can need one, being into tactical things, martial arts, etc... I have carried a knife my whole life. About 6? years ago I discovered the Esee 5. That basically changed knives for me. I got into fixed blades instantly. I have an Esee 5, 6, CM6, Candiru (for my lady), and my Izula, which was the green one, and is gone. I lost it. It messed me up, so I recently ordered a Bark River Mini Aurora Hunter, to replace it. I loved my Izula. I had to get something decent to replace it's sentiment haha. I got something slightly larger, but I like it a lot as an EDC. I needed to try a new steel as well. I'll go through the other knives I have and let you know. Nothing special. I have that Hanwei straight blade not historically accurate ninja sword. I am into swords also. I have a HuaWei Unokubi Zukuri on the way. I've thought long and hard of which sword I want if I unfortunately, actually have to fight someone. This will be my SHTF sword. I joined this forum to basically stop being a stalker. I have been reading these forums for at least a couple years on and off now. A LOT of what I've learned comes from here. Why on Earth did I not join? Well, I was busy. I am learning the differences of steel at this point. I am just beginning to learn the components. And when I say that, I mean I am beginning to read about the actual percentage of different elements used and why they are used, not just in blade steel, but in all the materials. I should probably know what I am dealing with, because I am starting to make knives. Someday I hope to be good at it. At the moment I am practicing my sharpening skills(different techniques and just practicing in general). I want to be a black smith basically, who does it all from hand down to the last strop. But, in the meantime I will learn with help from machines. I took the tools I had and bought some more. I have made a small shop in my apartment. I am making sheaths and I'm going to make knives. I have only made two so far, and those were a few years ago. They also were not heat treated. Someday soon I will get a Gold Membership. I read there is no discussion of business, so I won't speak to much about that. I am looking to not work for another person other than myself ever again though. Let's put it that way. I can talk all night, but my amazing daughter has a shit ton of energy at 6AM. Goodnight!
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One word: bigass titanium sword. o_O
 
I've been MIA. I was wondering, how exactly do I post pictures, and change my profile picture? It seems like the pictures have to be somewhere else and be linked to here?

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