The Abode of McThag

  Interesting vid.

Sarco has been out of stock of their repop trench knife scabbards for... as long as I've known about them. Aesop is the one who gets cre...

With the adoption of the M9, development of the M7 did not stop. Ontario knife company reworked the handle and gave us the M7-B.  I don...

The video in the previous post alludes to something about weapon quality. It's even mentioned in the Basic Set on p. 274 under  Melee We...

Back when I was talking about " tailor's swords " I was referencing this video: Lots of swords are less than ideal for fightin...

Harvey found a vid where someone, effortlessly, opens a beer with a butter knife. They tap the neck twice, then the body twice then sweep o...

A paean to the silliness of bayonets: It's an interesting rant and I don't have a real objection to what he's sayin...

A new term for me! British officers were responsible for their own kit, so they'd head down to the tailor's for a uniform and while ...

Tampa has an annual festival honoring a pirate. I realized that I don't even own a cutlass. Then, thinking of pirates, I realized that ...

I wanted to post a picture to Facebook, but my phone doesn't have the login. How do I get it to my laptop?  The phone, which took the pi...

A thread about swords on Arfcom got me thinking... Swords are sidearms, not primary weapons most of the time.  It's the weapon you pull ...

Your Swiss Army Knife might have a place to stow a straight pin! Look for this little hole under your corkscrew:  I had some buttoneer pins ...

  While they're looking at their government banning machetes, they seem to have forgotten about how they lost their guns. And it seems t...

Rapiers, by the way, come from a Spanish sword called ' espada ropera ,' or dress sword. They come from side swords, Italian for rap...

 My blade of Slavic might has gone up in value a bit since 2017. $39 then, $100 now .  Even the ones with mismatched serials are $80. Insta...

Canada has stupid knife laws too!

Did some saber drills today. My wrist hurts. No surprise.  I'm old and arthritic. A familiar burn is in my forearm.  Exercise is good, r...

Solid brass turtle defense tool.  The spike is to crack their shell. For a change, it's heavier than the Basic Set thinks they should be...

Medieval hand weapons made after TL7 are automatically upgraded to fine quality at no extra cost in GURPS.  Everything here is from Cold Ste...

"Sarge, I forgot my helmet!" 2d+2 cr against an unarmored skull still gets DR 2 from the bone, like a small mace or the hammer sid...