[Ansteorra-marshals] Rawhide swords

[Elfsea Marshal]

They have been in use by His Majesty Creppin, His Grace Sven, and His Grace Sven's squires for a long time. I have seen them used at practices and at Gulf War last year. His Grace Sven would be the best resource for any information regarding this. 

Absolon of Hereford

> On Feb 17, 2016, at 15:06, Craig Carter <slotshot at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> I saw someone comment that this was a new weapon that Sven and HRM was experimenting with and I just assumed in tennis ball fireballs! 
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>  On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 3:01 PM, Andreas von Meißen<scamiz at gmail.com> wrote:   Leather dussacks are a completely different animal (and are truly bonkers
> amounts of fun).
> 
> -- Andreas
>> On Feb 17, 2016 2:55 PM, "Chris Zakes" <dontivar at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> So this is a *covering* made of rawhide going over a rattan sword, not an
>> entire sword made of rawhide? (Because at a KWAR some years back, someone
>> had some leather dusacks he was fooling around with.)
>> 
>> -Tivar Moondragon
>> 
>> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 1:37 PM, Brandon McDermott <brandonsmcd at yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> You can make one easy. You can use regular rawhide, drum head rawhide
>>> (best), or even the large chew toy rawhide. Get it wet, use a baseball
>>> stitch on both sides (on the flat sides) to snug it up to the sword and
>> let
>>> dry. Lasts much much longer than duct tape.
>>> 
>>>   Lochlan
>>> 
>>>     On Wednesday, February 17, 2016 1:32 PM, Chris Baran <
>>> chris_baran at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>   I've never even heard of them.  Where could we gaze upon one of these
>>> things and try it out?
>>> 
>>> R~
>>> 
>>>> From: kajiracamber at gmail.com
>>>> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 18:13:22 +0000
>>>> To: ansteorra-marshals at lists.ansteorra.org
>>>> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra-marshals] Rawhide swords
>>>> 
>>>> Have only looked at them and have heard some comments about them (i.e.
>>>> issues when it rains due to soaking/expanding/slipping/etc).
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 12:12 PM Liam Gordon <
>>> cenliamgordon2005 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I know His Majesty has. I was about to start.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Liam
>>>>> On Feb 17, 2016 12:11 PM, "Earl Marshal" <
>>> kingdom at marshal.ansteorra.org>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> So, who's experimented with them?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> JP
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