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A Challenge
KharBevNor:
Purchasing all the gear in that cartoon I don't own (pair of hand-madeVladimir Cervenka single-edged norwegian swords, Wight Leather Craft vambraces, lamellar gauntlets, calf boots embossed scabbards and belts, hand-made kirtle and trews, horn handled saex, riveted chainmail, custom-fitted face-guard helmet with detailing and horsetail) would probably set me back maybe £3000?
Currently I am barely a one axe Viking.
Cernunnos:
my world has been shattered.
Inlander:
Yes, and with only one axe.
Patrick:
Khar wants to look like Gimli
snalin:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 08 Jun 2010, 10:51 ---Purchasing all the gear in that cartoon I don't own (pair of hand-madeVladimir Cervenka single-edged norwegian swords, Wight Leather Craft vambraces, lamellar gauntlets, calf boots embossed scabbards and belts, hand-made kirtle and trews, horn handled saex, riveted chainmail, custom-fitted face-guard helmet with detailing and horsetail) would probably set me back maybe £3000?
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[reenactment nerd]
You could make the mail yourself, save 1k of that. It's not so hard, either, if you just know how. Kirtle and trews are really easy to make as well, 50£ in good wool/linen and thread and you're set. And those Vladimir Cervenka swords looked fiiiine, but what price are they at? A sword from a mass producing smithy like armourclass.co.uk (great shop) comes at 190£ (sharp, 160£ when blunt), and from my experience, anything more than 400ish for a one-edger is a fucking robbery, no matter how hand made the blade is. I've seen beautiful, light and perfectly balanced swords that cost 3000NOK, which is less than 300£. The usual way to get a custom made sword is to buy one from armourclass, give the smithy the blade, and have him hand-craft a hilt and modify the blade. With 1k for the mail, 6-800 for the swords, 200 (max) for the sax, and the leather equipment, you'll end up at 2,5k.
I've been doing this for a couple of years, so you learn pretty fast that handmade by yourself is pretty much the best way to go. The mail is a big and time consuming challenge, so you might want to spit out the money for that. And you'll need some padding underneath it, or it'll just be uncomfortable and useless. And a proper viking uses axes. Dane axes are so much more imposing than swords anyways.
EDIT: and the only reason to have more than one sword is if you're having a dick-waggling contest at the Viking fare. A sword and a sax and an axe, I can get, for the variety, but two identical swords? What are you, Drizzt?[/reenactment nerd]
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