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Hello, quick comment. At around the 1.20 mark you mention that bronze afe swords of that size were about the same weight as a rapier, however most rapier fell into a weight range of 2.5-4lb to my knowledge. They were quite weighty swords. I had the impression that most bronze age swords came in under the 2lb mark. Am I incorrect?

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How much are they worth

I find the mass attractive in this; field knife first for me.

4:47 is actually a quadara. The kindjal / qama has a symmetric blade and is usually smaller (though there are large examples). Very nice sword. 6:00 is a salwar yataghan or khyber knife. The kora is a Nepalese blade with a very broad tip. The French artillery sword is a deliberate throwback to Roman and Greek times, so the similarity is not just a case of convergent evolution but rather of deliberate imitation.

Great channel

Nice Bayonet mods. Thanks for sharing. Just dropped by and subbed.

What a gem I've come across! Great video, very informative. Keep up the good work. 👍

Was curious to see how much one of them costed at the website. And saw it was almost 1200 euro!, without shipping aswell! I'm sorry but if I'm going to buy a sword for 1200 euro, I'm buying a historical reproduction steel longsword for that price.

Man you have a great collection! Especially your antiques and the Mycenean bronze sword👌🏻

The four pointed ones can be bent to form a decent caltrop. Useful against bare footed or slipper shod people and horses.

I wish I would’ve found this video a few days ago. I’ve been scratching my head on my old 1873 Era Charles daily side-by-side 10 gauge. I’ve been hand loading for it the last couple of year's but started with 2 7/8 inch RST ammo. I measured the inside of my chambers to the forcing cone the other day. Got measurements of 2.775” i’m pretty sure the factory loaded 2 7/8” RST hulls are longer than my chamber and probably overlapping the forcing cones that I had to guess. They never patterned worth a darn. I’ll have to measure a factory hull unfolded.

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Very nice guns. Great info.

Thank God I can delete this bullshit.

Wait, that Swiss pioneer bayonet fits the AR-15 without modification, or you added the mounting doohicky yourself?

Love the tanto blade you made! <3

Old style quality 👌

Ah... But, where's the Fabled "Chainsaw" Bayonet at.... 😅

were there drillings with bayonet lugs and magazines?

Good article, Mike! Hope the weather isn't tearing all of you up. My best to your dear lady and the munchkins of every size! Thanks for sharing more of your collection with us. Taught me a lot about something that I was ignorant of, so Thank You, sir!

having a hilt that can partly get inside the sheath is a design of knives and daggers thats associated with horse riding cultures

Nice presentation.

Please do a video on customizing bayonets. I would love to have something like an M1905 bayonet for my mossberg 590.

why was the grip of that clip pointed knife reversed?

cut oriented short swords were the most widespread type of sword in global history

Nice collection

Nice variety, Mike. Back about 12 years ago I asked Doug Morlock, a Canadian blacksmith of some renown, to make me a variant of the Roman gladius. I call it the SPQRK. czcams.com/video/k51lGAdMzYs/video.html

I have my volume all the way up and can barely hear you.

This is an example of the good kind of diversity.

Definitely going to save this for the next time I roll up a Rogue character!!!! Thanks!!!

I am quite fond of short swords. I have made many over the years. The Qama is one of my favorites tbh. It facinates me that they have been used for so long.

I never knew that a Falcata was a short sword, thanks Mike.

Mike where did you get the shirt? I need one. I went to SPT but it isn't one offered on your website.

Great episode, thanks

Hmmm my bullpup short barrel 50 Beowulf wants the long blade for my bayonet option

I have an LC Smith 1926 approximately with 2 9/16" chambers. Enjoy out there but be safe.

Where did you find the KABAR bayonet? Thanks

Very good info thank you for this. I have a 1890’s Remington I received from a close family friend we farmed for for a long time. It had a twisted steel barrel that doesn’t have that intricate design that some of the Damascus barrels have. It is a 10 gauge gun. I have yet to find a gunsmith that can measure the bores on it. 2 questions. Is the twisted steel a lower quality steel then Damascus? And would it also be a 2 1/2 inch shell? Only marking on it is a serial number and all the research I’ve done is saying it’s a 10 gauge and it was made sometime in the 1890’s. It’s likely a very common gun and almost every farm house on the prairies had one leaning on the wall but that’s besides the point. To me it’s a piece of history and deserves to be preserved as such

6:30 dónde conseguiste esa bayoneta M7 TANTO ?? jamás eh visto una igual, coleccióno bayonetas m7

6:05 thats hilarious

I guess some jag off in the 1950s came into possession of a large number of cheap foreign made knock offs of a WW2 survival/fighting knives. They took them to gun shows or sold them throughmagazine ads as drop knives. I once saw a guy at a gun show who had a box of Opiniel mushroom knives that he listed as French Army combat engineer EOD mine clearing tools.

“Its nice and pointy and sticky, but that’s about it.” Literally the only things you need a bayonet to be. Seriously though, very informative video and great work on that custom made one! 👍

One idea I alway had was making the musket style bayonets for ar15 due to all the free floating rails now on the market

i own a Husqvarna double barrel shotgun 12ga(blackpowder) made in 1884, crime rates are getting higher and i would love to use my shotgun for defense purposes, i saw a shop that sold modern rubberball 12ga rounds, will my shotgun handle the pressure since its modern powder?

Well I guess I’ll just have to add a knuckle duster bayonet to my wish list, dammit

Where do you keep finding the m7 pommels? I have a kabar/m7/knuckleduster hybrid project and i messed up the only one pommel I had 😅

This is always an interesting topic of conversation. I would add that, although pristine appearance of barrel interiors is comforting, a common practice in the past was to hone corroded and/or pitted barrels. Original chambers and/or forcing cones could have been lengthened. Any of these means that the barrels are no longer in proof. It's important that any gun that is going to be brought back into service have its barrel thicknesses measured at multiple points. It's very surprising how thin some of these old barrels can be. 2 5/8 in. chambers in old American guns, including in the fluid steel era, are common. Parker Bros. stated that those lengths were not lengthened when 2 3/4" became "standard". After the Remington acquisition, at some point they were lengthened. Firing modern 2 3/4" shells in a 12 ga. 2 1/2" chambered gun can be expected to add about 1000 psi to chamber pressures. That may or may not be important depending. I am not familiar with the Birmingham Proof House study you quoted. I know about the one from 1888. Those barrels were not cut to the usual thicknesses of shotgun barrels, a curious thing. We all know about Sherman Bell's good study of the topic with Remington's and Larry Potterfield's assistant. That one (?) set of fluid steel barrels were a molybdenum alloy quite different from modern ones.

I love these videos, you do a great job of making "BEHOLD... My stuff!" into an entertaining and informative series.

I have massive gun lust here ...