[Ansteorra-marshals] Rawhide swords

[Derryk Carr]

I had not heard of this, but would be interested in see if they worked and
how we would work thrusting tips with them.

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Elfsea Marshal <
marshal at elfsea.ansteorra.org> wrote:

> 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!
> >
> > Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
> >
> >  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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