01-02-2004, 02:33 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-02-2004, 07:57 AM by Rhydderch Hael.)
I don't spend any appreciable money on entertainment electronics. No DVD players, no game console system. My stereo was an open-box last-years' model that I got some nine years ago. My TV is older than most people's cats. I drive an Elantra.
I don't spend Christmas bonus money or tax returns on watercraft, ATC's, snowboards, or anything else "normal" in the guise of fun. All that sort of money which an ordinary man would spend on those ordinary things, I have not considered doing.
As thus, I was able to get this instead:
![[Image: dshilt.jpg]](http://www.axeforum.com/community/files/dshilt.jpg)
![[Image: dscabinet.jpg]](http://www.axeforum.com/community/files/dscabinet.jpg)
An Angus Trim model AT1548, made to resemble a reitschwert, a 16th Century German riding sword. A German or Swiss horseman would have such a sword as his secondary saddle weapon, and this design probably represents the very last example of a knightly sword before being supplanted by the predecessors of the cavalry saber such as the palanche or schianova.
Too bad for me, I don't have a horse...
Also unfortunately for me, I have a decided lack of available targets at the moment. I will just say that the one target I did get to slaughter, a half-gallon plastic milk jug of water, was cut away cleanly with the bladeâ four times over. Slice after slice after slice was chipped away, and never once did the base of the jug move upon the stand as pieces of it were cut away from above. Not altogether an impressive thing, I'll admit, until you realize that I am truly a rookie at the practical exercise of this sort of thing, yet was able to do it nonetheless.
Now, where is that troubling little blighter called Rakanishu...
I don't spend Christmas bonus money or tax returns on watercraft, ATC's, snowboards, or anything else "normal" in the guise of fun. All that sort of money which an ordinary man would spend on those ordinary things, I have not considered doing.
As thus, I was able to get this instead:
An Angus Trim model AT1548, made to resemble a reitschwert, a 16th Century German riding sword. A German or Swiss horseman would have such a sword as his secondary saddle weapon, and this design probably represents the very last example of a knightly sword before being supplanted by the predecessors of the cavalry saber such as the palanche or schianova.
Too bad for me, I don't have a horse...
Also unfortunately for me, I have a decided lack of available targets at the moment. I will just say that the one target I did get to slaughter, a half-gallon plastic milk jug of water, was cut away cleanly with the bladeâ four times over. Slice after slice after slice was chipped away, and never once did the base of the jug move upon the stand as pieces of it were cut away from above. Not altogether an impressive thing, I'll admit, until you realize that I am truly a rookie at the practical exercise of this sort of thing, yet was able to do it nonetheless.
Now, where is that troubling little blighter called Rakanishu...
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