St. James Armory Montante Review

16th c, Accesories, Arms and armour, Early modern period, Europe, HEMA, Hydepark, Iberian Peninsula, Melee weapon, Popular themes, Post type, Region, Swords, Timeline

Initial Impressions This doesn’t feel like a longsword. I’ve handled held a friend’s Arms and Armor montante before, and a Pavel Moc federschwert (insert joke about how big pavel’s standard feders are here), and it felt rather similar to those. It didn’t feel cheap, it didn’t feel under or over constructed, and it rang like…

Medieval Myth Busting by Tod’s Workshop – Arrows vs Armour

Accesories, Armour, Armour plates, Arms and armour, Arrows, Bows, Europe, Hydepark, Knights & Crusades, Late middle ages, Middle ages, Popular themes, Post type, Ranged weapon, Region, Timeline

What happens when a 160lbs ENGLISH LONGBOW shoots FULL WEIGHT MEDIEVAL ARROWS at properly Reproduced MEDIEVAL ARMOUR? The English longbow is laden with myth; of its origins, its power, its achievements. The centuries that have passed since it was used in earnest, means that the knowledge of what the bow was actually capable of doing,…

Medieval Myth Busting by Tod’s Workshop – The Armour

Accesories, Armour, Armour plates, Arms and armour, Europe, Hydepark, Knights & Crusades, Late middle ages, Middle ages, Popular themes, Post type, Region, Timeline

Medieval Myth Busting – More Detail. This film looks at the breastplate, specifically the one we used to conduct a series of tests that are shown in here….https://youtu.be/DBxdTkddHaE. It will make more sense if you watch the main film first and then return to this one. The contributors are all world class in their fields…

Medieval Myth Busting by Tod’s Workshop – Arrows

Accesories, Arms and armour, Arrows, Europe, High middle ages, Hydepark, Knights & Crusades, Late middle ages, Middle ages, Popular themes, Post type, Ranged weapon, Region, Timeline

Medieval Myth Busting – More Detail. This film looks at medieval longbow arrows, specifically the ones we used to conduct a series of tests that are shown in here….https://youtu.be/DBxdTkddHaE. It will make more sense if you watch the main film first and then return to this one. The contributors are all world class in their…

Testing early iron age Vimose Seax

Accesories, Arms and armour, Classical period, Europe, Hydepark, Knives, Melee weapon, Post type, Prehistory and Antiquity, Region, Scandinavia and Baltic countries, Timeline

Thrand test the early seax from Medieval Shoppe based on the Vimose bog on Funen, Denmark finds from 200 to 300 AD. This early iron age design was used against the Romans by the Germanic tribes and is tested on an analog gel head like the Forged in Fire kill test! Thrand also gives update…

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1789-1914, Accesories, Arms and armour, Arts and writings, Badges, Bags & baskets, Bayonets, Blankets, Books, Camp and travel, Camp tools, Clothing, Early modern period, Firearms, Hats and headwear, Jewellery and decoration, Market, Melee weapon, Men’s clothing, Men’s jewelry, Northern America, Pants and trousers, Post type, Ranged weapon, Region, Sabres, Shoes, Tents, Timeline, UniformsLeave a comment

We have been in the Sutler business for Forty One Years in 2019, supplying Civil War reenactors, living historians, museums, movie productions and Victorian Era buffs with reproduction goods to make their impressions complete. We manufacture a large percentage of the goods we sell in Indiana. Website: https://www.fcsutler.com Facebook: Fall Creek Suttlery