/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>9403372

your claim that
>A falchion, its a mass weapon, just like an axe, mace or hammer.

Has absolutely bearing in reality, to the empirical data I have spent nearly a decade researching and collating.

The hafted arms you describe have radically different handling characteristics and are in NO way similar to falchions, which are by their nature entirely sword-like in their handling. even the lightest single-handed Petersen type L has an utterly different weight distribution (yet alone vibratory percussion nodes) than a sword. This entire notion of "mass weapons" for a falchion is a fundamental mis-comprehension of the entire subject, I'm afraid. Your very underlying principles on the subject are in error. This isn't you being not quite right, this is as fundamental a misunderstanding as Charles Ffoulkes' writing in 1938:
>"The so-called 'Crusader' sword is heavy, broad-bladed, and short gripped. There is no balance, as the word is understood in swordsmanship, and to thrust with it is an impossibility·its weight made swift recovery impossible."

You and I alike know that that sort of statement is utter nonsense, from active study, be it i.33, Lichtenaur tradition, Fiore, or other fechtbuch. Well, your statements about falchions being "mass weapons", I'm afraid, are as ignorant of the reality as Ffoulkes' claims 80 years ago were about the general medieval sword. You have clearly not handled the real things, Gropey. I have. And my expertise as a craftsman in re-building them, my expertise as an academic historian working on this subject has shown that the things you are saying are absolutely misguided in your ideas of what they are like.