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PostPosted: Thu 22 Dec, 2005 10:16 am    Post subject: A second teaser from A&A         Reply with quote

Thought about adding this to Joe's thread, but it needed its own.

Pics of my upcoming glaive and the inspiration artwork (the one with the white arrow pointed at it)



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PostPosted: Thu 22 Dec, 2005 10:31 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Thank you Gordon! Now that glaive interests me highly! For me, this is going to be a must buy, thanks so much for sharing. Happy holidays to you and yours!

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PostPosted: Thu 22 Dec, 2005 10:35 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

One more "inspiration" painting of the "sword on a stick" type glaives.


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PostPosted: Thu 22 Dec, 2005 11:57 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

That is just too cool, Gordon! I'm really happy to see more people getting more and more higher end polearms.
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PostPosted: Thu 22 Dec, 2005 12:18 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Very neat, Gordon. I like it!
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PostPosted: Thu 22 Dec, 2005 12:30 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

I like this quite a bit. Yes, quite a bit. I've been intrigued by these for some time now. This spurs me, once again, to want to do some research on these types.
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PostPosted: Thu 22 Dec, 2005 12:56 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Craig mentioned this glaive but didn't say who it was for or how far along it was.

I think he is enjoying the creative process of it quite a bit. Big Grin

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PostPosted: Thu 22 Dec, 2005 1:07 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Wow, that's a really wonderful piece. Great glaive Gordon (say that five times fast Laughing Out Loud)
Do you know if this is this an exclusive custom piece or will it make it into the regular production line-up?

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PostPosted: Thu 22 Dec, 2005 3:30 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Mark Mattimore wrote:
Wow, that's a really wonderful piece. Great glaive Gordon (say that five times fast Laughing Out Loud)
Do you know if this is this an exclusive custom piece or will it make it into the regular production line-up?


It is a custom piece - I wanted something based on the artwork above. I had not seen anything with the "sword guard", and it seemed like something that was fairly common and pretty cool.

Maybe they will think about at least doing something similar for a "catalog" piece. Craig said they did a "rondel" version for themselves as well.
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PostPosted: Thu 22 Dec, 2005 7:07 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Very cool Gordon! That artwork looks like something from J. Froissart's chronicles. Question
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PostPosted: Thu 22 Dec, 2005 7:49 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

That is seriously cool! I have always had a thing for glaives. I would love to know some stats. For instance what is the mounted length going to be and how much does the head weigh?
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PostPosted: Thu 22 Dec, 2005 8:11 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Gordon;

Really nice custom project there and I'm looking forward to mine.

Yes there may be a ground swell of enthusiasm for high end pole arms here being stimulated by a number of people getting custom ones made at the same time: Can't help thinking that some topic threads have gotten people HOT about them.

Yes more research on these would be a good idea: Maybe Craig could write a feature on the research he did for the various custom polearms he is now working on or supply some of the source information for someone to put an article together.

I see another article on his experiences and what he has learned putting these together: Assuming he doesn't want to keep some things as trade secrets ?

Craig is certainly too busy making these to spend too much time writing articles but he might be able to supply valuable raw material for team effort to make an extensive article using his source material as well as other source material.

( Not committing to anything yet! But might be able to handle a small part of this type of project: Maybe doing some illustrations with Photoshop if I have the source material to base accurate drawings on. )
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PostPosted: Thu 22 Dec, 2005 10:30 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Jean this is all your fault!

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PostPosted: Tue 27 Dec, 2005 11:06 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Darwin Todd wrote:
That is seriously cool! I have always had a thing for glaives. I would love to know some stats. For instance what is the mounted length going to be and how much does the head weigh?


It should arrive at my house this week, so I'll get stats and more pics out then.
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