Ok… nice. My few pics back in the day before hollow points replaced steel. ( so pics - it happened lol)
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Nice rig.
The elbow cops and pauldrons look somewhat restrictive, and the epaulets should be strapped from the inside so a blade can’t as easily cut them off.
I built and tooled all of my armor, from stitching my gambeson out of moving blankets for padding, quilted to a case of duck canvas and genuine satin lining to keep it historical.
To tooling and hardening leather plates for leg and arm armor and weaving my own Chainmail
It’s hard to see, but the leather vest is lined with steel plates as a brigandine to cover my kidneys and floating ribs
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It was my polished pretty set up for the wedding. My horse worn gear was far more flexible and geared more for combat runs and shielding. Far from being as shinny and way more abused. I can put some thought into it and still feel the lanced strikes that missed the shield lol. Good times back then. My kid keeps my pieces displayed in his room. Doesn’t have the shine anymore though. And my walled dispays have sadly been created after a few moves. But we do dig through it from time to time.
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Ahhh, equestrian!
Makes much more sense from that perspective! 
I was in the SCA and focused on longsword.
My armor was overkill for SCA and their rattan weapons, but I also fought live steel with a much smaller group from the renaissance festival.
I’m old and fat now, I can still hold my own in a fight and taught my nephew a few things that apparently didn’t go over well in HEMA! (Apparently using a rapier disarm maneuver with a long sword isn’t historically accurate?). But it F’n WORKS!
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That’s cool as hell. Nice wedding concept…The old lady and I would be Lady and Sir Headshot!
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I focused close quarter and i remember the SCA hated me. Used to run the gambit for a time when i was way younger and could run n armor. My wifes aunt lived out in arizona 30 mins from the faire and spent time out there each year starting out the tour. but life took over and slowed me down over time. (can’t insert pic from work pc to prove it lol. i will later if i remember).
I teach my kids the same. tell them how it kinda was or could of been and teach them a whole other way to win. Guess you could call it more sell sword gorilla style piratie ish. Now it’s more range time then sword time. And as far as historically accurate goes… learn from their mistakes. Too many bodies covered the fields in their times to not start thinking historically accurate needs an upgrade. A longsword behind the skill of a rapier takes way more skill and makes it even scarier on the wrong end.
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My collection is a little different. I have an array of chef, butcher, culinary knives. I have classic French style knives and Chinese and Japanese style of knives. My knives price ranges from 30.00 to 500,00. They are known as chefs toys!
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I occasionally practice weapon disarms in my Krav Maga classes. It is hard to disarm a knife without getting slashed or stabbed at least once. I find longer blades to be even more difficult to deal with given their longer reach.
There are also videos of people throwing swords and sticking them with great precision from 30 feet away. Not the most useful use of a large blade but it is likely to at least be distracting enough to the target to give the thrower an extra moment or two to get away or access another defensive tool.
There is some video floating around the internet of a guy using a machete to chase off several home invaders. At least one of those invaders was armed with a shotgun. They all freaked out and ran the second the homeowner grabbed the big blade and charged them. There is another story of a man in India I think defending himself from a large angry mob bent on harming him. He used two large blades to extricate himself from the situation. A blade doesn’t run out of ammo and is harder to grab without getting cut.
I wouldn’t want to EDC a heavy sword but I keep machetes near the door of my home and in the back of my vehicles. They are very useful for clearing weeds or small trees across roads and making kindling, etc. I wouldn’t hesitate to reach for one if I couldn’t get to my firearm for whatever reason.
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I’ve been doing this even before my CCW days.
One time, I went to Coronado and left my pistol secure in the hotel room.
As I approached military checkpoint and read what’s illegal to bring inside, I thought about the knife. Did I break any laws?
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I don’t know anything about military regulations aside from what I have seen on MASH and countless war movies;)
I also can’t say for sure on regulations in all the states. But in general I think a machete is considered an agricultural tool. If you keep it within easy reach of the drivers seat some LEOs might give you a hassle over it just as they might a tire iron or baseball bat. But if you keep it in the back of the vehicle with other brush clearing instruments and outdoor gear I suspect you would be OK in most but maybe not all locations.
One other consideration is that machetes are generally only sharpened on one side. Some locations will likely consider a long blade sharpened on both sides to be a sword which would bring different regulations into consideration.
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