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by Peggy Sue Coates
Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:04 pm
Forum: Research and Training Discussion
Topic: Buying wasters and practice blades?
Replies: 17
Views: 21787

The Dwarven Smithy makes nylon wasters for londsword, messer, and dussack. High quality, but can take time. Dwarven Smithy is actually making the Long sword wasters fairly fast at this point as well as some of the other products, Helms are going out the door faster but still take a while and there i...
by Peggy Sue Coates
Sun Feb 15, 2009 8:27 am
Forum: Research and Training Discussion
Topic: FNG seeking advice
Replies: 11
Views: 15817

My boys do the same, they however have been allowed to do so from the time they were tiny (the favorite then being 2 liter pop bottles). Now I simply make them (and their friends) safe padded ones which I replace or repair as needed. I knew there was no way especially with me swinging a sword to sto...
by Peggy Sue Coates
Fri Jan 02, 2009 9:12 pm
Forum: Research and Training Discussion
Topic: WHAT is the BEST SWORD for HOME DEFENSE??
Replies: 102
Views: 605258

I may be wrong but I think the reply's being made here may have crossed the ocean. This topic started as a discussion of what the best weapon to use in Spain, where guns and many other forms of defense are illegal. The actual question was not A) did the home need defended (since apparently armed hom...
by Peggy Sue Coates
Sun Dec 21, 2008 9:42 pm
Forum: Research and Training Discussion
Topic: Get a load of this guy
Replies: 99
Views: 1955298

I suspect a lot of test cutting was rather informal. :( Just a thought folks but perhaps the obvious is being overlooked. In fact I would offer as a hypothesizes that much test cutting would have been a normal part of the hunting and butchering, which we know from many records and sources was a reg...

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