So it seems boredom + no rain + me being awake on Sunday morning means I appear at the car boot. I usually get tools (woodwork, machine shop type stuff or electronics) or something I fancy pulling apart but seldom anything really worth sharing here -- I got a bag of nice old spanners, many of which were sized for the Whitworth standard. This time though there were a couple of rusty fencing swords for £3 for the pair so I got them, the picture below is after I ran a bit of sandpaper over them and right now I am deciding whether to do the "better than the factory" restore (mainly as an excuse to play with fun chemicals and techniques I rarely get to employ) or leave them more or less as is.
I had not done any European style fencing in well over a decade (I have a bokken (Japanese wooden sword) I play with from time to time but mostly it is spear/staff type things that I go in for if I am doing larger weapons than a small knife) before yesterday... I was somewhat rusty just going through basic forms and techniques and my accuracy was all over the shop but I did remember why I liked it originally. I then looked up what style of sword it was and apparently it was a Spanish style ( https://www.armasdecoleccion.com/toledo-spanish-fencing-foil-p-153.html?language=en ) so I then looked up Spanish fencing. All martial arts ultimately boil down to physics and biology (and chemistry/metallurgy if you want a weapon that will last long enough to get you out of that day's combat) but this was somewhat different to what I originally learned.
I had not done any European style fencing in well over a decade (I have a bokken (Japanese wooden sword) I play with from time to time but mostly it is spear/staff type things that I go in for if I am doing larger weapons than a small knife) before yesterday... I was somewhat rusty just going through basic forms and techniques and my accuracy was all over the shop but I did remember why I liked it originally. I then looked up what style of sword it was and apparently it was a Spanish style ( https://www.armasdecoleccion.com/toledo-spanish-fencing-foil-p-153.html?language=en ) so I then looked up Spanish fencing. All martial arts ultimately boil down to physics and biology (and chemistry/metallurgy if you want a weapon that will last long enough to get you out of that day's combat) but this was somewhat different to what I originally learned.
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