Today we follow up on our previous video “How to break your sword” by making new swords from the broken pieces of the first. This is something that was very common during the medieval period, and was usually preferable to attempting to “reforge” a blade as we often see in fantasy and pop culture.
Check out the previous video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr6LHxMDHKI
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Nathan Clough, Ph.D. is Vice President of Arms and Armor and a member of the governing board of The Oakeshott Institute. He is a historical martial artist and a former university professor of cultural geography. He has given presentations on historical arms at events including Longpoint, Western Martial Arts Workshop, and Combatcon, and presented scholarly papers at, among others, The International Congress on Medieval Studies.
Craig Johnson is the Production Manager of Arms and Armor and Secretary of The Oakeshott Institute. He has taught and published on the history of arms, armor and western martial arts for over 30 years. He has lectured at several schools and Universities, WMAW, HEMAC, 4W, and ICMS at Kalamazoo. His experiences include iron smelting, jousting, theatrical combat instruction and choreography, historical research, European martial arts and crafting weapons and armor since 1985
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Love Dr. Nathan’s hair in this. My hair does the exact same thing. It’s fun to make it stand up straight.
Swords? Oh yes, swords! That’s what this channel is about.
Love this subject. I was always curious about this process. I assumed it was done quite often.
Once again, thanks Arms & Armor!
oh hey! rad follow up.
What a timely video.
I have a war sword that I'm considering cutting down to a single hand sword.
Pretty hype. I’ll just order another axe my ancestors demand it.
historical people are usually more resourceful than modern people
the repurposed sword is also functionally very similar to the Gladius and I bet they would have been used in a similar manor
Have any idea why the cross was pointing down? Seems very unsual and kinda uncomfortable
I do wonder how 'feasible' it would be to forge a box full of bits of broken blades into a new blade and if "Damascus" like patternation would occur from such an experiment.
I love these videos. I always learn something from them.
What a dandy baselard you created. Will it be for sale? Seems someone would give it a good home…
Medieval recycling 🤘
Nice to see the next steps in the life of a sword.
I know that Scottish dirks were often made from broken swords. I wonder if this extended to alehouse daggers and hangers. Also, I now really want to find out more about the longer dirks, as I've heard they got up to 2 feet in length.