My #Hobby - Collecting, Documenting, Researching and Conserving antique swords
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The chivalry is stored in the balls
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You are legally required to admire my pizza.
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Came home, apparently have new room-mates now.
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Koftgari silver overlay: before and after
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Makin a messer of things.
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A 400 year old shamshir, banana for scale vs scale for scale
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Late 18th Century Ottoman Turkish Kılıç
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I Spent the last 4 Days on Conservative Restoration of the sabre.
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Two type of (antique) patterned steel (OC)
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"True" Damascus Steel is a Lost Art - a lie you probably believe.
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Russian tank seen flying Soviet flag near Diepner river
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Weirdly obsessive starter packs no one actually cares about, sword edition
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A 400 year old Iranian Shamshir. Banana for scale.
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Life goal achieved: I now own a Laz Bichaq (Black Sea Yatagan)
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Bauernwehr ("peasant knife"), mid 16th century CE, Germany. Found in a clay floor of a period home.
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Hirschfänger (hunting sword) of Emperor Maximilian I, attributed to Hans Sumersperger, 1492 - 1498
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Macro shots of metallurgical structures on an antique (shinshinto era) Japanese wakizashi (short sword)
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This is why we can't have nice things.
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I hear we're doing "swords so far"?
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My hobby is (also) collecting antique swords
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WIP: Conservation and Restoration of a Qajar era Iranian sabre, using EDTA hydrogel.
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A 1:1 3D printed copy of my antique shamshir's guard, courtesy of a redditor, and shapeways.
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Fashion trends I wish would come back into fashion
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Shinshinto era wakizashi
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New Rennfair outfit idea: Bollock Dagger and cloak.
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"ENHANCE" (OC)
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Decided to teach myself watercolor. Here's my first finished painting (and second painting overall)
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This sword is one day, and one war too late.
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New Acquisition: A Qajar sabre with etched blade, bearing Quranic calligraphy, animal motifs. For use in Ashura plays. 1850ish, all OC
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I've run out of wall to display my collection. Can you tell?
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You think untangling headphones is hard? Meet protein interaction maps.
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The Laz Bichaq, as seen in historical photographs
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My first medieval antique: A Bollock/Ballock dagger, circa 1490-1500
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"Graphic Design is my Passion" - but antique sword edition
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I made an UHD infographic, and all it took was a 400 old sword and 100 photos composited into one image
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The most accurate movie sword fight (in my opinion)
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Extremely niche, unrelatable start packs vol. 2
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New Acquisition: Kabyle Flyssa Sword, Algeria, mid 19th Century
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New Acquisition: Persian Qajar Era sabre, etched blade.
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Carbide Banding Patterns in 400-year-old "True" Damascus Steel, at 2000% Zoom
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Reflecting on 2019 through the medium of antique swords
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"Posts that should have been an essay", Persian Shamshir edition.
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I collect antique swords. Here are some of my rarest and oldest.
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Testing out a "slider" setup for filming my antiques.
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Extremely niche, unrelatable starter pack 1
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Museum Mythbusting: No, this is not "The Sword of Grutte Pier"
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Gospers Mountain wildfire, NSW, Australia. 484,000 hectares, burning since November 6th (photo December 22nd)
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Before and after etching an antique yatagan in Oxalic Acid
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Ottoman Pala (infantry sabre) made of "Turkish Ribbon twist" steel, 1780-1790 [OC]
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Historical "Silver Swords": Bukhara crucible steel used silver to purify the steel.
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If anyone was ever curious about the blade geometry of an antique Ottoman Pala (infantry sabre)
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162 Million pixels of Antique Persian Steel [OC][26000x6265]
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Wildfire climbs a mountain, vertically. [Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia
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Antique Swords from Persia, Turkey, Indian and Afghanistan from my collection
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How NOT to "restore" an antique blade.
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A Ottoman Yataghan sword, for a Zeybek Efe (Militia Chief)
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If anyone was ever curious about the blade geometry of an Antique Persian Shamshir
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"Damascus Steel is a Lost Art" - Except it Isn't.
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