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Bill Grandy
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 Posted: Sun 17 Jul, 2005 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Nathan Robinson wrote: | I think you have bronze pieces in there, Bill, not brass... I remember oggling that catalog photo and reading that description dozens of times "back in the day"  |
You're right, I mispoke. Mine also didn't have the polished steel elements, so I took some silver paint and dry brushed it on. The results came out quite nice. (Mine's also a custom pierced blade)
I had some pics in this thread:
http://www.myArmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=1563&
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Steve Grisetti
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| Bill Grandy wrote: | | .... (Mine's also a custom pierced blade) |
Bill, The pierced blade is an interesting feature, which I don't recall seeing before. Was that commonly done?
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Fredrik Hörnell
Location: Sweden Joined: 08 Sep 2003
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Wery nice looking sword there, congrats. 
Worthy of a king.
Handling - I am no fencer either, but i too liked the handling when i tried a (blunt) out.
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Bill Grandy
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| Posted: Mon 18 Jul, 2005 3:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Steve Grisetti wrote: | | Bill, The pierced blade is an interesting feature, which I don't recall seeing before. Was that commonly done? |
I'm not sure quite how common it was, but there's definately several historical examples. The majority I've seen are on daggers, but some rapiers exist, such as these from the photo albums:
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Nathan Robinson
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This is a standard topic