Kilt or celtic weaponry...

[Caradoc]

Basket hilts are cool! I was desgining one in my head, here are the materials: Damascus Steel Blade, Ebony Handle, Blued Steel Basket and Fittings with a Black leather sheath with Blued steel fittings.

You might want to have a chat with Kirby Wise.

Kirby's Main Page
Kirby's Basket Hilts
Kirby's Dirks

You'll pay a pretty penny for a pattern-welded broadsword.

[Woodsheal]

The Tartans Authority has a nice article about the Targe here:

http://www.tartansauthority.com/Web/...s/Weaponry.asp

This is a good article, especially in regards to the impossibility of wielding a dirk in the left hand while wearing a targe on that arm, too!

However, it is folly to think that a targe could stop a musket ball! This notion is shared by many reenactors with no experience actually shooting muskets with live ammunition. Well, I've owned and shot and hunted with flintlock weapons for years, and I can tell you this: at 18th C. combat ranges (100 yds or less) a ball from .75 or .69 cal infantry musket will go right through a targe, the wearer's arm, and halfway through his body before it slows down...!

[David White]

I read an artical once about a guy that set up a "targe" and shot at it
from different ranges with his Brown Bess, all rounds passed right through!

[bubba]

Those old smoothbores might not have been great for accuracy but anything they hit is gonna be in bad shape. Alot more hitting power than people think.

[Iolaus]

Those old smoothbores might not have been great for accuracy but anything they hit is gonna be in bad shape. Alot more hitting power than people think.

Yeah, those old balls were generally a lot bigger than anything you'll see in the civilian market today! Some were, what, .75 caliber or larger? (For the non-gunners, that's 3/4 of an inch.)

[Colin]

.....and the original question was:

What kind do you have? or would like to get?

let's keep the topic to Celtic, Scottish, or Irish weaponry that people have in their collection. If you have an old flint lock pistol in your collection, great, but let's leave it at that.

[Woodsheal]

.....and the original question was:


let's keep the topic to Celtic, Scottish, or Irish weaponry that people have in their collection. If you have an old flint lock pistol in your collection, great, but let's leave it at that.

Fair enough! I've got one of these, too:



It's Made-in-India, but not a bad repro - though the originals were invariably highly engraved....

[Colin]

the handle looks like a flask

[David White]

Fair enough! I've got one of these, too:



It's Made-in-India, but not a bad repro - though the originals were invariably highly engraved....

I'll be honest I do like the plainer steel pistols better for some reason,
they look more work-man like. Where did you get that one Brian?
I like it.

[David White]

I may have posted these pictures already, don't remember :confused:

Here is a close up of one of my baskethilts showing turk-head knots etc.


In hand, a nice snug fit.