Replica swords

[JoshBorchert]

How many people here play video games? I sure as h*** do. I wanted to know if anyone has seen a gunblade replica from final fantasy eight if you have let me know.Thanks

 

[Hitokiri_Gensai]

thats definitly a specialty item that would have to be custom made. ive never heard of replicas from the FF series at all.

 

[Triton]

There are several replicas of sword like objects from that particular video game floating about on ebay, none of them usable. I've not heard of any of that particular thing however.

 

[Robert.B]

well the makers of the games HEAVILY exaggerated the swords on purpose...i've seen a gun blade made custom at a fair how it would be without the exaggeration making a usable blade. the one in the game is an anime art style, you'd have better luck finding the lost "honjo masamune" at a yard sale then making the swords as they are in the game work functionally.

 

[JoshBorchert]

I've seen other video game swords that are usable. where can i get the usable version of the gunblade???

 

[Fleadh]

If you wanted one useable your options are extrodianrily expensive custom work or the perhaps equally expensive antique route.
The final fantasy gunblade is based on a historic weapon but dimensionaly blown out of proportion.

Here's an example of a gumblade using google image search.

http://www.armchairgunshow.com/images/QP101.jpg


Replicas of gunblades can be bought from such sites as http://www.flintlockpistol.com/ but none are functional. I think denix make them.


Ciaran

 

[Triton]

As portrayed in the pictures I've seen I don't believe it is possible to make a usable version of that sword. There were historical "gunblades" but they were mostly used as hunting implements for delivering the coup de grace.

 

[Robert.B]

making it with the same proportions is impossible, what isnt impossible is to get rid of the exaggeration to something like what Ciaran posted

 

[Fleadh]

I have a wonderfully hollywood image of sticking the bad guy in the chest and him doing the whole "ha ha ha you didnt kill me bit" and then the smile from the hero and the click of the added gun but being cocked.

C

 

[FullerH]

There was a cutlass-pistol issued to at least one expedition of the US Navy in the 1830s, the Elgin Cutlass Pistol. Here are a couple of replicas of the thing. It is my understanding that, like most such devices, it was neither a very good pistol, being excessively muzzle heavy, nor a very good cutlass.


http://www.thunder-ridge-muzzleloading.com/pistol2.htm

http://www.dixiegunworks.com/product_info.php?cPath=21_78&products_id=690

 

[Triton]

That thing's awful but I do like the derringer and pepperbox on the same page.

 

[FullerH]

Well, Russ, I have actually held one of the real ones* and it is a bear to handle. It is muzzle-heavy as all Hell, as you might well imagine and it was not what you'd call an effective cut and thrust sword, either. On the whole, pretty much a loss, IMO. And I would expect that anny such weapon would be the same. Bayonets make a rifle awkward to shoot and so would they do to a pistol, IMO, including the folding spike bayonets that I have seen on some old muzzle-loaders. I should think that the better option would be the road obviously taken by the old "Hoss Pistols" used by cavalry and dragoons in the muzzle-loading days; make them heavy enough for them to be turned around and used as a club. Why do you think that the old front-stuffer pistols had big balls on the butt? Ugly as sin, but effective as a warclub.

* At an NRA National Convention in Washington, DC(?!?) in Spring of 1960. An exhibitor had one that he let some folks handle.

 

[FullerH]

You all may wish to take a look at this thread in SwordForums: http://forums.swordforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=35347

 

[Robert Marotz]

I don't really wanna stir anything up but this stuff just doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense to me.

I can see how you would want a pistol AND a sword, but a combination weapon of both?

I mean...the spork is a useful combination tool for those who want versatility, but with this kind of weapon, it's more like combining a salt shaker and a fork. Kinda messes with good operation of either, sometimes you will use both, but isn't it just better to have them separated?

Unless you're carrying 300 other things on your belt or in holsters, I don't really see why having the 2 separate would be so insanely unwieldy!

 

[Triton]

What a neat experience Hugh.

Robert, I agree and it seems that most everyone else did too. They went out of fashion rather quickly.