Review: The GFFG Berbekucz Club Sword
Over a decade ago, the great and renowned HEMA maestro Roberto Gotti of the...
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Category: Reviews
Review: Mora Bushcraft Survival Knife
Being Swedish, the town Mora more or less equates to knives and I would even go so far as to...
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Review: Fällkniven A1, S1 & F1
Today we will review three knives by a Swedish brand that oddly enough is little known to the...
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Review: ESEE-4, ESEE-5 & ESEE-6 knives
ESEE Knives, formerly R.A.T Cutlery is one of the most well-regarded cutlers in the USA, a cutler...
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Review: The Böker Plus Schanz Dagger
Before we look at the knife in question for this review we have to step back in time a bit and...
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Fabrice Cognot – Bladesmith & Scholar
Today we are introducing Dr. Fabrice Cognot, Burgundian swordsman, polearms specialist and...
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Review: Swordbag Liechtenauer
As much as I love the pioneering aspect of Historical Fencing some aspects of it have, at times,...
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Review: Ontario Knives Chimera
Among the countries of the world one stands out as truly blessed with excellent knife makers...
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Review: Tinea Kombat Knife
Today we are going to look closer at a fairly new modern Italian-design combat knife that...
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Review: KA-BAR D2 Extreme Fighting/Utility Knife
When it comes to combat knives, next to the classical Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife, few...
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Review: SPES Dussack Waster
Given how important the dusack has been both in the fencing schools and tournaments, all the way...
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Review: A history of Europe by Aneas Silvius Piccolomini – 1400-1458
A ‘new’ book from the 15th Century has just been translated and published. The...
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Review: SPES HEMA Jacket – Axel P model
Looking at how the HEMA community looks today it is easy to forget how hard we have been working...
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Review: Warring Maidens, Captive Wives, and Hussite Queens
Before I go any further, I would like to point out that this is physically a very nice book. The...
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Review: Black Lance 5-finger HEMA Gloves
One of the most elusive pieces of protective gear for HEMA, the Holy Grail if you will, is...
Read MoreReview: Where’s my fighting trousers?
“A telegram? Oh, dear. It seems someone has been “biting me”…? Fetch me my trousers at once! No, not those. Those are my time travel trousers. No, those are my tea trousers… That’s it! Those...
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Review: Regenyei fechtschwert
The swordsmiths around the world have seen some pretty fierce competition developing over...
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Review: Arms & Armor Fechterspiel Sword
Swordsmith: Arms & Armor Arms & Armor have been making swords for practice and...
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Hands-on Preview: Pavel Moc Fechtschwert
HEMA has gone through a lot of progressive development in the last decade. The community is...
Read MoreReview: Lichtenauer steel longsword
In a way I think one’s first real sword is like your first love. It is something you will always remember in a special way, since it was such a strong emotion experienced for the first time. My first, was a Pavel Moc...
Read MoreReview: The Dave Rawlings/Knightshop Synthetic longsword – Pro-Line Extreme
Few HEMA-related products have caused as much debate as the Dave Rawlings/Knightshop range of Synthetic Swords. This comes quite natural as they were developed in close collaboration with the HEMA community, and the way we...
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Review: Zugadore poly sparring sword by Revival.us.
This waster came seemingly out of nowhere onto the market, at a time were we are seeing very quick...
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Review: Norrlands waster by Plastsmeden
The best longsword nylon wasters I have tried thus far were hand made by Pentti of GHFS....
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Review: Synthetic Longsword Type II by Purpleheart Armoury
This hand-made Synthetic Longsword II is actually a bit of an old Rolls Royce or a Bentley. The...
Read MoreReview: Synthetic Longsword Waster by Pentti of GHFS
I consider myself very fortunate having had the chance to follow the development and having been able to practice with the infamous Pentti nylon wasters, which in my experience is amongst the finest nylon sword simulators, if...
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Sparring swords – Introduction
What defines a good sparring weapon? A common notion is that it should be as close as possible to...
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Review: Scimitars Fencing Shoes
Finding good, suitable equipment for Hema is a problem we all wrestle with and there are few...
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