During lunch today the son-out-law got the honour of disposing of the #halloween pumpkin, using a #longsword.
The first cut went straight through without the top half moving at all - he had to go and lift it up to confirm he had in fact cleaved it in half.
Quite impeccable edge alignment on his first try ever.
@vitalis It's a basic Hanwei longsword, which I bought a few years before I started learning how to use one.
I also have a sharp bronze sword, which I made myself. The mould that was cast in was based on a find that now is in Dublin museum.
My other swords are blunt, for HEMA or reenactment use.
@vitalis I have a Regenyei Armory feder, a Hanwei basket-hilt rapier, a Paul Binns Norman arming sword, an Armour Class Viking sword, a Sverdfadir langseax, and another langseax I don't know the maker of.
Also a couple of bearded axes, three spears with hafts of varying lengths and heads of varying sizes, and a few seaxes.
All blunt for reenactment combat. The Paul Binns sword I also use for sword&buckler, as it's light and springy enough.
The Binns Saxon sword in the image is my partner's
@vitalis My club has a class in jogo do pau, which I might join at some point. I have trained in two-handed Dane axe - enough to be safe doing unchoreographed combat displays against unarmoured opponents - which have many similar area-clearing techniques.
There are of course no manuals in Dane axe use, so what my reenactment society taught was a mix of what works intuitively, what looks cool, and, more lately, inspiration from pollaxe manuals.
