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Mr. Warzecha, you're quite the artist in addition to martial artist.

Very interesting. When used in conjunction with the sword the buckler's concave shape makes a lot more sense. It still deflects and guides the opponent's blade away from the sword but it also takes control over it bij "capturing" the sword point...like a baseball mit.

Those illustration are wonderful! °_°

Pretty! Concave buckler should make it easier to trap the opponent's weapons with schiltschlac, at least that's what I think. It also makes it easier to move the sword around it, like what they show it in Stoccata's video on English buckler.

always a pleasure to see your content.

Excellent!

Yes, its a very much smaler, Thank you.

The slight bowl shape makes me think it was designed as response to more point play in sword and buckler systems, the bowel acting like a mitt.

Find an article with reconstruction drawings of the original 14th century buckler here: www.patreon.com/posts/21828703

Cold Steel better get on this

Maybe the buckler and its handle are normal for medieval people who were smaller framed than we are. Cornelius is a tall and big guy so I'm not surprised that the handle is a bit small for him

looks a lot like a satellite dish lol! i want it now!

After my broken wrist heals I think I need to fire up the forge and try to make one of these

Like holding a sabre.

Awesome video. Quick question. With the handle, is the majority of structural integrity in the metal banding that goes around the handle? It seems like leather might fail after extended use.

Beautiful piece of kit. Are your illustrations available in book form?. I have been admiring them on pinterest. Always appreciate you both sharing your knowlege with us. I have been curious about this buckler type and was very happy to see this vid in my feed. Thanks again

The shape of the original handle terminals should show the cross sectional profile of the leather that they would sit against, no?

Dear Roland, thank you very much for your work making this video. I have a couple of questions: 1. What kind of gloves are you using? These gloves look like a regular olympic fencing gloves. 2. Are you German? I know that in Germany leather armor was used up to WW1 in a form of leather helmet, aka "Pickelhaube". Is WW1 leather armor different from midieval cuir bouilli? What is the recipe for making authentic cuir bouilli?

Any guesses as to how often you see concave vs concave vs flat Buckler's.

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Is this the so-called Welsh buckler?

I know this question is stupid and will probably (I hope not) offend alot of historians here BUT: dose Vikings used bucklers? Do we have any historical source? Perhaps there is a book you can point me into?