swords – Steel Phoenix Studios

moxperidot:

tilthat:

TIL if you polish an ancient sword that’s been used in battle, even a 2000 year old sword, it literally bleeds out the blood of the people it’s been used on, which “smells like a steak cooking”.

via reddit.com

cool and definitely not cursed!

Makes sense. I assume this would also apply to knives, daggers, etc.

armthearmour:

A lovely swept-hilt Rapier chiseled and pierced to look like chains, Italy, ca. 1610, housed at the Royal Armouries at the Tower of London.

hunlarpfag:

Yet again a bunch of new messers from Landsknecht Emporium, this time prototypes and individual orders.

The dark handle one is mahogany, the bright one is yew the rest is beech

systlin:

iamemeraldfox:

So pretty?!

@systlin

I can always count on you to find the hottest porn for me.

pinkharlow:

fallingstars5683:

alteamo:

sixpenceee:

Silver steel flexible double bladed snake rapier, made during the 19th century in Toledo, Spain.

THIS IS SO BOMB

it’s for hardcore Indiana Jones cosplayers

you think it’s a whip and end up getting stabbed

Y’all can’t tell me that this ain’t slytherin as fuck

But Indiana Jones hates snakes…

fabricatedgeek:

machiavellianfictionist:

Kaskara from southern Sudan. The blade is over 37 inches long and of excellent quality, etched with a floral pattern on the fuller. The grip is wood covered in hide and the scabbard is tooled leather complete with hanging belt.

That blade etching though…

kishona:

an-gremlin:

forbosmargad:

lord-kitschener:

notabrobro:

swordmutual:

swordmutual:

debate: is a really long sword-length but still otherwise knife-like knife valid to be considered a knife, or is it now a sword because it’s long

@nagunkgunk

It’s a knword and it’s Valid

I don’t wanna like Kill The Joke but this brings up a really cool fact about swords in ~14th-16th century Germany! The only people who were allowed to own Real Swords were the royalty and nobility BUT! Everyone else was allowed to own knives. The definition of a knife, however, was based on not length but handle construction, and to some extent how it was sharpened. The handle had to be constructed Like So with 2 pieces of wood sandwiching the metal tang.

Only one edge was allowed to be sharpened, but oftentimes a small part (a couple inches) of the short edge (e.g. the edge that wasn’t sharp) would be sharpened, and weapon design often allowed for this

In this way, something that looked like This, a messer of just over a meter in length…

…would be legally considered a knife, and therefore allowable for non-nobility to possess. (you can also see the bit on the back of the tip that would be sharpened)

So @swordmutual, there’s a not definitive but certainly interesting historical perspective on your question

Thank you for finally answering my years old question, “why the hell are all these old german swords just called ‘knife’”

@kaiju3

peashooter85:

Sudanese kaskara, circa 1900.

from Czerny’s International Auction House

deadcatwithaflamethrower:

themarysue:

hedwig-dordt:

optimysticals:

squeeful:

bemusedlybespectacled:

maxiesatanofficial:

pervocracy:

kvothbloodless:

macaedh:

what the fuck ethan

I wish i had a context for this. But I really dont.

I was all ready to “um, actually” this, but, um, actually there’s about 3-4 grams of iron in a person, which x400 is 1.2-1.6kg, which is a smallish but not unreasonable sword. So. Math checks out.

How would you extract the iron, though? The more practical solution would be to kill a mere hundred men, then mix 1 part blood with 3 parts standard molten iron, imo. Cheaper and faster, while still retaining the edge that only evil magic can give you.

Or, you could just make the sword of iron, and then use the blood to temper the blade.

1.2 to 1.6 kilograms is a perfectly reasonable large sword. Your average longsword was 1.1–1.8 kg and I don’t even remember if that’s including the weight of the hilt, guard, and pommel or just the blade. Your more classic “knight sword” was a mere 1.1 kilograms on average; the blood of 400 men is more than enough.

This is using the comparatively crappy metallurgy of medieval Europe and their meh iron swords. Move east to, say, contemporary Iran and make a scimitar using high carbon steel (~2%) for a .75 kilogram blade and you only need the blood of about 225 men.

So putting my thoughts in on this… because how could I not.

So you’ve exsanguinated your 400 guys to get the iron for your sword. Cool. But now you have 400 bodies lying around.

Why not put those to good use and cremate them. Use the carbon from those 400 bodies (you won’t need all of them) and now you can make a nice mid-high carbon steel sword.

Now you have a sword forged with the blood of your enemies AND strengthened with their bones.

“high fantasy math” – the tag I should have expected to write some day.

I’m so proud of everyone in this post

Fantasy math. Uhm…sure, yes. *taking notes*

*mutters* I can probably find 400 enemies SOMEWHERE.

the-moon-loves-the-sea:

serahcullen:

i keep seeing that one post about ‘wanting a sword but not being sure What to do with it practically’

when i was like 15 my brother asked me what i wanted for christmas and i jokingly said i want a sword like a knight sword he bought me one from some historical replica place and i just hung it on my wall

and for YEARS what i always did

was whenever i was going out somewhere fancy and i was in my dress and my heels and my hair all nicely done i would take the sword around and just walk around the tile part of my house with it kind of loosely gripped in my hand, just all slow and casual, hear my heels click, carrying it bc you would be amazed what looking rly hot AND carrying a sword will do for your confidence l i ke. i’d feel ready for anything

and my mom would always come out because she’d be expecting it and just watch me with some mixture of amusement and bewilderment but she never actually asked

five years later i still do this in college… before job interviews… formal affairs… dates…. just get ready and then carry the sword around for a while you’ll feel so good i promis

@swordlesbianopinions