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A comment on Toledo’s Last Swordmakers.

Re:Toledo’s Last Swordmakers by baxuz on Thursday August 26, 2021 @05:36AM (#28312593)
https://marianozamorano.com/en/6-swords

I'm going to be blunt here:

Apart from some rapier models, these look like garbage. These are slabs of iron in the shape of what vaguely looks like a sword.

Compare these to actual swords like:

https://www.albion-swords.com/

http://www.christianfletcher.com/

Or something a bit more down-to-earth like from Peter Regenyei who started out by making practice swords for HEMA practitioners:

https://regenyei.com/

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Re:Toledo’s Last Swordmakers by KaiserPro on Thursday August 26, 2021 @06:24AM (#28312943)
When I hear master swordsmith, I think of something like this: https://www.owenbush.co.uk/product-category/swords/

(bonus if you're in the UK they run a sword smithing week long course)

As Baxuz points out, the swords on sale are not overly great quality. unless you like the specific look of them, you are better off getting a version made for HEMA re-enactment.

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Re:Toledo’s Last Swordmakers by mvidal01 on Thursday August 26, 2021 @03:23PM (#28319387)
>I'm going to be blunt here. I see what you did there.
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Re:Toledo’s Last Swordmakers by definataly on Thursday August 26, 2021 @06:00AM (#28312751)
the swords in those 3 links look just like the Asian ones you can see in Toledo. Hard to tell from the picture.
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Re:Toledo’s Last Swordmakers by baxuz on Thursday August 26, 2021 @06:37AM (#28313026)
To the untrained eye, perhaps.

Albion and Christian Fletcher are as far off from the Toledo ones as a Yugo or a Reliant Robin is from a Ferrari.

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