Rapier Marshal Hood

Last November, I was Marshal in Charge at a rapier event, and I wanted a fancy garment to show that I was acting as a marshal.  For years, I’d always heard the phrase “marshal tabard,” but I never wanted to wear a tabard.  Then a member of my barony made a gorgeous marshalling German capelet,

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Custom Tooled Phone Case

This is a custom phone case I made on commission.  I really enjoy making custom new pieces! The strap on the back is to thread onto a belt. This design is the heraldry for the Cavendish Knot, the first rapier award you can get in the Middle Kingdom in the Society for Creative Anachronism. The

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Neck Coolers as Site Tokens + Largesse

Neck Coolers make awesome gifts, largesse, and site tokens for people in the SCA – or really, any other group that spends a lot of time outside in the hot summer sun, especially when mixed with exertion (armored combat, rapier combat, archery, equestrian, Habitat for Humanity/volunteering organizations…). What is a neck cooler?  It’s a long

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Fits Like a Glove

I’ve been using these as my rapier gloves for over four years now.  In fact, these gloves are the very first piece of rapier gear I made.  I didn’t realize that making your own gloves was odd until I showed up with them and everyone started oohing and aahing – it just seemed like a

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Leather Dagger Handle and Hand Guard

I made the handle of my fencing dagger over a campfire at Pennsic, a two-week medieval camping event I go to every year.  My campmates were thoroughly entertained.  🙂 The handle was made of many compressed leather discs.  The first step was to soak leather scraps in beeswax.  I bought beeswax at the Pennsic marketplace,

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Rapier Notes: How to Deny a Flank

At Baron Wars this past summer I had a great discussion with our rapier general, Peter, on what is the best way to deny a flank.  This is a tactic that occurs during line fights.  Below is a picture of two lines fighting, orange versus green.  The black markings are their swords, dagger, shields, and

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Commission: Sword Belt Spreader

Medieval sword belts were often made with many buckles so that they could strap down onto different sword sheaths and be re-used (if you had to make everything from scratch, you’d make sure it could be re-used, too!). In the Society for Creative Anachronism, which does medieval recreation, many rapier fighters use this type of

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