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Hey Matt, is it possible that you could do a video about the partisan or execution sword ?

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@@UndrState I was wondering the same.

There is a certain level of irony with a Englishman selling off (yes technically just advertising for) Scottish land....lol

Not by chance, even when cup-hilt were in use, swept-hilts were MUCH more (almost exclusively) present in gentlemen's portraits (in northern-Italian gentlemen's portraits, the schiavona was also very present).

Excellent point and one reason I have always liked the Pappenheim-hilt.

I think, conversly, one of the reasons the other style is so common now, is that there is a high chance anyone who yakes up rapier training wanted to be Zoro as a kid, so the cup is more in line with that.

I personally think the cup hilt is cooler

Schiavona is my favourite, sword of the Croats 🇭🇷

Nobody ever survived a gunfight complaining they brought too much gun.

Madlad quote.

@@knightjack don't know it. That was mine from delivering pizza in FL with a full size 1911 I 10mm and two spare mags back in 1992.

@@kennethfharkin Chad.

100% This. I like to compare it to safety equipment in general--such as bike helmets or worksite protection gear: You won't need it 99.9999% of the time, but for those 3-4 moments in your life where you actually do? You want to be caught wearing it, not wishing you hadn't left it at home because you found it cumbersome and uncomfortable to wear around for the incredibly unlikely event that you will end up actually needing it that particular day. It doesn't matter if one helmet is marginally "superior" if it's uncomfortable and a lot more likely to get left at home after a period of time due to complacency and laziness. And as we all know, it's precisely when we let our guards down like that that we suddenly get blindsided and eat shit in a particularly pathetic manner.

Right. This one is particularly annoying.

Adding a comment to draw attention to this too.

Not sure about any other recent videos, but this one did have a lot of artifacts, unfortunately, while still being quite entertaining. Hopefully, it's a one off and will also get fixed.

I've been seeing this a lot, too, in recent videos, FWIW. And this one was unusually bad.

I thought it was just KZfaq

Yes, don't forget that for a lot of gentlemen a rapier was more of a fashion item than a weapon of combat anyway. In the media duels are popular because they are full of drama, but they were actually quite rare (for obvious reasons, it's super dangerous even if it's not to the death). So a majority of noblemen would never actually use their rapier in combat, at least in a civilian setting, and a lot of nobles user sabres and guns when they went to war anyway. I wouldn't be surprised at all if coolness was a much more important factor than that 1%-2% more effectiveness.

Sounds similar to the earlier Bilbo/Bilbao, from the 16th Century.

Interesting. Just googled it. It's like a squished cup-hilt projecting into a knuckle bow. It really does look like an olympic sabre hilt XD Very ugly to my eyes, and cuts down on the advantage of the cup in all-round defence, but it might be easier to wear and might be a good compromise for some.

Espada de conchas?

I've been watching you.

It’s no wonder kids are shot-up in American schools. Why the hell anyone wants to carry a gun around on a daily basis is beyond me.

I'm with you on the Glocks. They're about as stylish as carrying a brick around. I stick to my Eastern European built DA/SA's. The Arex is a good one. Stuff from my tribe's part of the world just seems to fit my hands better. I like the look of 1911s a lot, but I don't like the feel at all.

I'm thinking along the same lines but with modern blades instead of modern sidearms. I work as a cook and everyone's knives are a matter of personal taste. I mostly use a carbon steel nakiri (Japanese vegetable cleaver) with a very simple black handle. I have one coworker who favors a long, thin, stainless steel meat slicer with a gorgeous white and gold handle. Another guy uses a simple, sturdy Mercer knife. Our sous has a very flashy "Damascus" steel chef's knife with a marbled handle. I imagine you can guess a few things about our personal tastes and styles just from that.

I'm with you on this one. The 1911 is the firearm equivalent of an early 1970s muscle car. Bold, sexy, and stylish. Glocks have all the sex appeal of a Prius.

As Mr. Easton is usually quite fastidious about his production values I suspect this is an Internet upload issue, not him needing a new camera, memory card. software or computer.

Unless you are spanish

You seem a decent fellow!

I think that word does not mean what you think it means!

Grumbletonian heathen!

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I think also it's because there were tons of antique cup hilts still around in the early 1900s, and also they were easier for prop makers to make.

@@scholagladiatoria i know for sure, based on some conversation i had with a very famous fight coreographer and olympic fencing master, that in many cases they used cup hilted swords wether because it allowed them to modify modern olympic swords to resemble antiques, for example adding longer quillons to the cup or making an Italian foil guard a little wider and adding a bigger fig shaped pommel to look something alike a transitional rapier, or because actors were thaugt the fundamentals with olympic epees before starting using the proper stage swords, and since the choreographer wanted them to be the most comfortable with the movements to seem the most realistic (even sometimes changing hits or parries as the actors were feeling more keen doing something different) they were given cu hilted weapons as they had the most similar feeling in the hand. Anyway, this may be just two of the reasons they might had been, he spoke about his own experience and his father's, I'm just reporting what he told me to help me in a research for my degree. (Hope I managed to write it all correctly and clearly 😅) Greetings from Italy!

I feel like cup-hilts are just easy to kinda bullshit up for props. (It sure as hell is for artists.) Much easier to finangle up a bowl or dished boss sorta thing and toss it on top of a basic quillon + D-shaped knuclebow than to make a complex swept hilt that also looked aesthetic.

On my list of swords to get, I love that it looks like the bastard love child of both a Spanish Rapier and the Bell guard of a sabre, even though it is much earlier than those sabres existed.

does it glow blue in the presence of goblins?

Ditto. I have one on my wall. It's one of my favorite swords to wave around. Very nicely balanced. Still very sharp.

@@samsowden Yes. Yes, it does.

​@Scuzzlebutt142 I first knew it as "Spanish broadsword".

Same.

absolutely.

At first I thought I was having mini strokes..

Yes, the first time I've seen this. 🤔

I thought it was just me, came looking through the comments to see if anyone else was seeing it...

Yeah, I've seen it on a couple of his videos now too.

Maybe having issues with his battery? I noticed it as well.

Why I prefer one as a left hander.

Through the Habsburg dynastic conection the spanish influence in south germany/austria in terms of fashion and court ceremonial is also quiet substantial, so "german style" might be more varied aswell.

May be 15 to 20 years ago, i , Brittas boyfriend, was invited? to a meeting of coin collectors. As special guest the curator ? of the coin collection from ,Württembergisches Landesmuseum' was there and hold a speech about coins from Württemberg in late 17th century. The man showed enlarged pictures from coins , showing the same Duke. On the first coin the Duke was shown with large french whig ( Perücke in german), the second coin showed him in armour with short cut natural hair, the third coin again with french whig. What was the reason? With the coins, showing him frech dressed, he wanted to show: I am a modern ruler! The coin , showing him in armour with german hairstyle, was pressed in wartime, the Duke wanted to show: I am a german Duke and will fight the French! A bit out of context, but from the time, Matt Easton speaks in this Video. Coins, dress, hairstyle , sword design, Propaganda was known in every era.

From what I've seen it's usually depicted as a curved hilt broadsword.

@@allengordon6929 I guess you could call it a hybrid style hilt. It's sort of a half-dome, but comprised of bars in the shape of bones.

Magnificent historical fiction series, sadly still unfinished.

IIRC, the Main Guache, also referred to as the sail guard dagger, is more commonly used with the Cup Hilt Rapier, and often made as a pair that shared similar decorations. Bucklers probably more used with the Swept hilt due to giving extra hand protection, but no real huge association there.

@@Scuzzlebutt142 Maine gauche is not specifically sail daggers afaik, but dedicated parrying daggers generally. And no, parrying daggers gradually supplanted bucklers (at least with rapiers) pretty much regardless of rapier type. Parrying daggers tend to pair better with the defensive methods of rapiers than bucklers.

Have you ever had that problem in practice?

I think the complaints in some courts were just becouse of that. I can't imagine the hilarity of dozens of men trying to mingle about with their long "tails" bashing into everything and everyone.

@@anttilehto2628 That, and tripping. Elizabeth banned swords over a certain length, citing the reason that the gentry/aristocracy kept increasing their sword lengths to show off, and stepping on and tripping on them as they trailed too close to the ground.

My favourite hero and I believe that cup-hilt rapier is the most beautiful sword ever and as a rapier very difficult to handle

Cup hilt* swept hilt*

@@TristanBehrens thank you

@@asa-punkatsouthvinland7145 no worries

Possibly, but you may be think it through to much. The biggest reason I've found is that if you trap someones blade between your blade and quillons, and you have a swell or ball at the end, they can't slide it out, they have to get you to release the pressure on the blade.

@@Scuzzlebutt142 having multiple purposes doesn't negate any one purpose. I did state "in part" I didn't say it was the only, or even primary, reason for the balls/flares Asfor trapping a curved C shaped guard works better than a straight | shaped guard; flares/balls are not the only solution. But to reduce spin for a straight blade the only way is to increaseass away from the axis of rotation. But to test my theory I have cut with the same straight, double edged blade mounted with no guard, a simple straight guard & a straight guard with balls. I could definitely feel a difference between the 3; the balls did help stabilize the blade. Some historic longswords have pointed guards for stabbing with; like those shown in Fiore & Tallhoffer. Many later longswords have bave balls/flares. Why give up the offensive capability of points?As a gross simplification very early longswords often had wider cutting blades & many later longswords had slender & pointed blades to emphasize the thrust. The balls/flares lessen the effectiveness of the guard when used to stab when in close & half-swording. But the balls/flairs do help eliminate spin & stabilize the cut which makes the cut more likely to bite; especially with thinner light blades. Again watch an ice skater spin; arms extended & they spin slow, bring arms in they spin easier thus faster.

I read that first sentence wrong and had to double take

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