While Hero is starting to consciously acknowledge Evon in a new perspective, and one is pleased, I’m more intrigued by the blade he’s looking at. For The mage-bear might one recommend a cinquedea? As a bladesmith for the past two decades it’s simply professional in consideration…
Or possibly something along the line of a gladius style weapon or a coustille? Long enough to work very well, not so big a relative novice would have trouble wielding.
Are you interested in an apprentice? I love blades of all shapes and sizes but my collection is small. Would love to forge a weapon from start to finish.
Not looking for an apprentice yet. Spending the spring rebuilding the forge after last year’s real-life curve ball. It would, however, mean relocating…
Not at the moment, but there’s not a lot I can’t make. Can do traditional European, Persian, Chinese and Japanese forging. I tend to make blades for the individual anyway…’specially the peoples I really likes! 😉 What would really help is learning what you like and figuring out what your grip is like. Squeeze a piece of modeling clay to learn where your grip is and then we build the sword from there! My grip tends towards the middle two fingers and I like slightly pommel heavy. Some people are either the first two or last two fingers and can range from absolute balance, pommel or blade heavy.
Good to know. Now I have someone to turn to for a custom made blade at some point. My grip is somewhere between the middle two and the last two fingers and I personally prefer a balanced blade.
As for the comic, If my memory serves I sold them a short sword – not a dagger.
I don’t think “maturity” is the big issue (unless he’s genuinely afraid she’ll get mad at him for saying something stupid and stab him in a thoughtless temper tantrum… so, PROBABLY not. 😛 )
I’d be thinking more about weight. Technically 18 or not, she’s a petite girl. A broadsword forged for a grown man Hero’s size would be heavy enough to overbalance her (especially if she missed a fully committed strike) not to mention the weight would affect how quickly she could move the blade to slash, thrust, parry, or block.
Evon would do far better with a lighter, finesse-style blade, like a rapier, cutlass, or even just a standard shortsword. Of course, Hero might not be as experienced with finesse-type fencing to teach her how to use an entirely different class of sword.
He said the “M” word!
Wow, is that Freudian or what?
XD Yaaaay! He actually is rattled enough to wake up! Woohoo!
Hero you are gonna get in deeper trouble with that kind of thinking.
While Hero is starting to consciously acknowledge Evon in a new perspective, and one is pleased, I’m more intrigued by the blade he’s looking at. For The mage-bear might one recommend a cinquedea? As a bladesmith for the past two decades it’s simply professional in consideration…
Or possibly something along the line of a gladius style weapon or a coustille? Long enough to work very well, not so big a relative novice would have trouble wielding.
Are you interested in an apprentice? I love blades of all shapes and sizes but my collection is small. Would love to forge a weapon from start to finish.
Not looking for an apprentice yet. Spending the spring rebuilding the forge after last year’s real-life curve ball. It would, however, mean relocating…
If you don’t mind me asking, do you have an online store where you sell your swords?
Not at the moment, but there’s not a lot I can’t make. Can do traditional European, Persian, Chinese and Japanese forging. I tend to make blades for the individual anyway…’specially the peoples I really likes! 😉 What would really help is learning what you like and figuring out what your grip is like. Squeeze a piece of modeling clay to learn where your grip is and then we build the sword from there! My grip tends towards the middle two fingers and I like slightly pommel heavy. Some people are either the first two or last two fingers and can range from absolute balance, pommel or blade heavy.
Good to know. Now I have someone to turn to for a custom made blade at some point. My grip is somewhere between the middle two and the last two fingers and I personally prefer a balanced blade.
As for the comic, If my memory serves I sold them a short sword – not a dagger.
Good to know, I’ll have to keep you in mind 🙂
giggity
“By the power of Greyskull, I. Have. The. POWER!!!” 😀
Or maybe it’s the sword from Thundercats 😛
he is thinking of doing “mature” things with Evon here. trust me, there are many different meanings to that last panel.
Is Hero thinking she’s physically or emotionally mature enough?
I still find Heero’s eyes in the last panel unsettling. he needs to stop staring into my soul like that. bad manners
Your soul is mine!
No worries here, it went on a permanent vacation decades ago
a Colichemarde, eh? http://filmswords.com/images/zorro/90th/zorro-2.jpg
…a fine choice for a young student of the blade
I don’t think “maturity” is the big issue (unless he’s genuinely afraid she’ll get mad at him for saying something stupid and stab him in a thoughtless temper tantrum… so, PROBABLY not. 😛 )
I’d be thinking more about weight. Technically 18 or not, she’s a petite girl. A broadsword forged for a grown man Hero’s size would be heavy enough to overbalance her (especially if she missed a fully committed strike) not to mention the weight would affect how quickly she could move the blade to slash, thrust, parry, or block.
Evon would do far better with a lighter, finesse-style blade, like a rapier, cutlass, or even just a standard shortsword. Of course, Hero might not be as experienced with finesse-type fencing to teach her how to use an entirely different class of sword.