Picture thread! Post your best!

BePrepared

BePrepared

Joined
Aug 26, 2010
Messages
4,441
This is my attempt to inject a little life into this part of the forum!

I know everyone here has one or two swords that they are particularly proud of... of course, i'm a noob to swords, so all I have is the Musashi that i just got, so i'm posting that.

Post your best, or post something that's important to you. Either way, tell us what it is, and why you love it.

Below is my Musashi Bamboo Warrior. It's cheap, but it's build incredibly well, and handles nicely... the only other thing in this pic worth mentioning is the custom giraffe bone drop point skinner made by Conner Knives. The rest is just Cold steel stuff... solid, but cheap

99nod2.jpg
 
My pride and joy is my 1780's NCO's naval cutlass. Unfortunately it's in storage and I don't have any photos. :(
 
just a comment about that katana, it looks like the hamon dips dangerously close to the edge in a few places. Do you have any closeups?
 
i can get some, but it is no less than a 10mm from the edge at any point.

The hamon doesn't EVER touch the edge.. if it did, i'd be sending it back.

I'll get some closeups after work tonight
 
BePrepared said:
i can get some, but it is no less than a 10mm from the edge at any point.

The hamon doesn't EVER touch the edge.. if it did, i'd be sending it back.

I'll get some closeups after work tonight
Click to expand...

if you follow the line from there the belts touches the blade, it looks really close to the edge. there's another spot that looks the same. I think i remember someone else here buying one with similar issues and they sent it back.
 
i can assure you, it is not even close to the edge. Could be a product of the lighting, but that's the first thing i looked for. There is a good bit of variation, but it never gets close to the edge
 
Here are some of mine. Criswell Katana & Waki, a couple of Cheness Kaze, Rob Douglas Waki.

swords.jpg

kaze_mirror.jpg

Dougas_waki_1.jpg

Douglas_waki.jpg
 
wow.. i REALLY dig that waki... i think i wants me one of them!

can you tell me who makes that thing? I'm referring to the bottom one. It doesn't look like a criswell
 
horseclover said:
Most of those are shown in more detail in the albums linked above

Cheers

GC
Click to expand...

That's a very impressive collection! You have quite a lot of beautiful swords. I do believe I espy at least a couple of swords you've posted (close ups) from a different "Show us your 19th century swords" thread!
 
BePrepared said:
wow.. i REALLY dig that waki... i think i wants me one of them!

can you tell me who makes that thing? I'm referring to the bottom one. It doesn't look like a criswell
Click to expand...

That is a Rob Douglas creation. He is (was) mentored by Wally Hayes. Stopped making blades for a while but I think he might be at it again. Top notch workmanship except for the engraving, this was made in 2006 hopefully he's gotten better since then :p
 
Pueo154 said:
That's a very impressive collection! You have quite a lot of beautiful swords. I do believe I espy at least a couple of swords you've posted (close ups) from a different "Show us your 19th century swords" thread!
Click to expand...

Thanks. While not exactly best organized, that album link will lead to close-ups. It is a bucket load over the past decade or so and even with the antiques, the list is about at an end for now. Different interests of various genre keep me going though and it is actually the very cheapest I go back to time and again. The past year it has been older simple Roman helmeted militia swords (See that Ames album). There are two specific types of eagles that would round that out for me but others had come along to fill those spaces on the walls.

Pick just one? I'd have a hard time.

Cheers

GC
 
i got mine for 80 shipped. It's nothing i'd trust my life to, but i have been swinging it through every form i know (not that many) and it has held up perfectly.

The fittings are VERY tight, and the balance is excellent. For $80, it's the bargain of the year
 
Matthew Stagmer said:
Haha, Horseclover. I was just about to post..."hey those are Glen's swords". Then I noticed you signed it GC.
Click to expand...

Yes, that be me. My moniker of Hotspur had been usurped by another joining here and I have even received missives meant for whomever that is here. AFAIK, their traffic here was slight and only a few posts exist. I believe there was another Hotspur account that sprung up on one of the LARP type sites as well. My own use of Hotspur would go back to NetSword and SFI when it was the Highlander threaded view of 1999.

Added to those other older Ames militia swords is one with the same blade found on the 1840 nco swords. I had thought to be done with them when I came across this odd variant.
Asst%20003.jpg

Asst%20001.jpg

Asst%20002.jpg


One other example I passed on a few months ago has what looks like surplus bayonet blade stock. It is the short ones though with the cross hatched grips that date back to the 1830s and what had begun the trek
http://www.swordforum.com/forums/showthread.php?104816-Early-Ames-Militia-Patterns

I am still listing a decorated Osborn spadroon with a white grip and an undecorated dark gripped Bolton artillery size sabre as what I am still wanting to finish off my eagles collection. There are many more varieties but it is basically my three stooges that I focus on (Ketland, Bolton, Osborn types).

Cheers

GC
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top