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Actually the last one is what I thought of first, but that's because I live in a hot sunny country, and cars can be annoyingly reflective, and they aren't even mirror finish..
its the katana for the gaucho and also go from generetion to next generation as a family legacy it came in diferent size depending on blade length and mostly in carbon steel even today they are very popular great video and greetings from argentina!!
I'd be interested to see mirror armours effect at range. Reflecting the immediate environment, turning legs green as grass, the torso reflecting the sky etc I doubt it would be much use against arrows fired en masse but does it break up the outline somehow?
Until the guy starts attacking the hand. Only attack the hand and the rapier will be fine. Rapier guy was playing the body too much.
it was not persian but Turkish. Turks dominated what today is iran for 1000 years only in modern times they let power go but not totally as they still dominate trade etc.
Are brittany spears from northern france
Youve got a point. Literally 🤣
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I had a trowel with a very rough finish and the water would literally get stuck in the grooves and cause rusting there.
What stuff did they use to get a mirror polish. As you say there are drawings of watermill powered polishing wheels. But what was on the wheels?
Medieval Hack: ⚔️ Capture shiny knight for ransom bonus 🛡🤑
I would point out that Bedouin tents are black cloth for a reason. May not be completely applicable to steel for reasons you cite.
Cut-centric rapier is an oxymoron imho. It's just a single-handed sword with fancy hilt.
As an.American.in a constitutional carry state I have carried a handgun all my life. I am.a farmer and often have to deal.with predators. In my youth I had a very close friend who was the president of a 1% mc club and I spent time with.them. They shared your opions in large share about knives. My friend told me even if you win a knife fight you are likely to be hurt. He even told me as a last resort one could take a blade in a hand and have a split second to take care of bussiness. Give me a good old colt 1911 any day.
Stupid Morgana. All she had to do is wait for the scabbard to break.
Westerners tend to be very prone to categorizing things, something I just noticed.
Maybe at that time they didn't have a deep knowledge of probability calculations and statistics, but they experienced it directly in the field. A 1% more chance of not being impaled and not dying on the battlefield.......... I'll take it, if I can afford it.
Couldn't reflecting the sun be an issue for your comrades/allies too?
Someone should tell that English man in RDR2 that we found Gavin
A slight tangent to this video, but Matt mentions the extra cost in time and resources when producing a double edged blade. With that in mind, why was it that many swords that only have one usable cutting edge are fitted with double edged blades? I'm thinking of basket hilts in particular, which often had a back edge.
On point #5, you don't even need a mirror polish to accomplish this. Whenever fencing outside, I'd almost rather have my face to the sun if I'm fighting someone with an unpainted steel mesh mask, because if they're facing the sun, it's like staring into a laser beam when you look at them. So yeah, I'll take the "disadvantage" of facing the sun because the sun is in a fixed location in the sky and I can easily avoid staring at it.
The advantage is that it looks 🔥
The length is as much of a disadvantage as it is an advantage. The rapier can be grabbed which did happen a lot historically.
The main attraction for me for friction held heads for an axe as a tool (e.g. tomahawk) is the ease of replacing the handle if it becomes damaged when away from a work shop. I wonder if ancient folks on campaign felt similarly about weapons consteucted that way.
I just found out most people didnt even buy there own cloths back then it was given to them buy there landlord or boss as part of there wages and they had to be made for them there were no shops or anything so to see some one turn up with polished armor and swords would seem like a super hero to them
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Lol #5 was literally the first idea I had. Thought it was too silly to be true
Hi Mat, a stupid question: You brought up the topic of rust. As there was no stainless steel in this time, and it was called the dark ages and not the dry ages - wouldn't most of the armor and weapons worn in the fields being rusty?
In famous Zwinger collection in Dresden, there is an armour for foot tournament, made of silver.
Armor normally has padding under it, which insulates, making it hot. White armor would reflect all wavelengths. Polished armor would reflect visible light, but would absorb infrared light more than white. I think a mirror polished shield would be an interesting tool.
Royal Mail is literary the worst courier company in the world since it went private i wouldn't bother too much i dont think they will be around for much longer DPD will probably buy them out .When you buy them abroad make sure they send them in a un marked flat box with some sort of disguise on top of the box ..You can uslay talk to the seller about this im sure they will help as much as they can and dont send them by Royal Mail
The only benefit of a pass through is two wounds to let blood out. Extra penetration does have the potential to damage more blood vessels.
Never underestimate the tendency of men to do whatever they believe will get them female attention.
Not a problem plenty of other better couriers out there i never use royal mail if i can i only use them for letters .Plus Royal Mail are a bunch of fucking thieves because in the big cities they use staff from of the street cos no one wants to actually work for them who are in any way decent and actually do there job
Normans didn’t even make up the majority of the invading army lol, Duke William had volunteers and mercenaries from all over northwestern France: Bretons, Poitevins, Flemings, Manceaux (men from Maine) etc, not to mention on the Bayeux tapestry Williams troops (including the Normans) are referred to as “Franci”
Where were you after the 2nd American Revolution when the American Militia landed in London to free our brothers.
Here in America we make and sell arms to foreign countries without background checks that we can't sell to our fellow American freeman.
Another thing with the highly polished armour and status- if you can afford it, you can certainly afford a decent ransom for your safe return in case of capture!
As an American I can tell you that there is an association of the British and British army with the confederate army during our Civil War. The confederates desperately tried to secure military aid from the British, and definitely did receive shipments of British weapons. Maybe these British stamped blades were considered confederate because of that
If I had a nickel for every time someone asked me to draw a battle axe...
How many layers of identification could happen? Like the retinue of a knight wears his colours, but the knight is also sworn to a lower lord who himself follows a king. Did something like that often happen, where they said: "Oh, we need something to show that we are part of this even larger group"?
The "Bohemian Earspoon," or "ušatá sudlice" in Czech, probably got its name from the triangular out-turned lugs sticking out from the shaft or spearhead, which look like ears. The word "sudlice" doesn't mean "spoon" in Czech and proto-Slavic. In medieval times the Czech word "sudlice" meant "voulge." The original meaning of the Slavic root is "shover" or "thruster." which an etymological dictionary traces to Sanskrit, where "śūlā" means "iron spike." The word is very similar in all Slavic languages today (though only the Czechs and Slovaks add the "d" to "sulice)," including Old Church Slavonic. So the root probably dates way back to Proto-Indo-European. It was probably the Germans who came up with the "spoon" part since they were the ones who called the weapon a "Böhmischer Ohrlöffel" (Knebelspiess is an alternative name in Wikipedia). In medieval German, the expression “den Löffel abgeben” (handing back the spoon) was a euphemism for dying. In that sense, Ohrlöffel can be translated as "eared killer."
That black armor was beautiful. Much nicer than mirror
Now I feel special, because my first thought when I launched the video was 'I wonder if reflecting light into they eyes of your opponent is a thing'
White actually reflects heat better than a mirrored finish, so if you're trying to stay cool, a bright white would be best, and would still be very blinding to your opponent. Darker colors have higher emissivity, but they're also going to absorb more heat. So at night, or in shade, dark armor would radiate your body heat quicker than mirror or white finished steel. However, that might not actually be a bonus, unless you live where it's very hot at night, otherwise you might get cold.
"Size doesn't matter, certainly not above 3 inches" I'd rather you had said : "Above 3 inches size doesn't matter" as it would have been more accurate. If you feel different, I'd love to see you try stab someone with a 1 mm long knife, i bet it makes a whole lot of difference compared to a 3 inch knife. Also the title would have been less clickbait if you had added the "above 3 inches" in between 'size' and 'does'. That fact that you even mention this 3 inches treshold clearly demonstrates that size does matters a lot. It merely stops to matter once you have 3 inches or longer already.
Why don't I see myself in your polished armour ? Am I a vampire ? I am a vampire, am I ?
Corollary : why don't I see myself in your polished head skin ?
The sun reflecting in the enemy's eyes Is actually the very First reason I thought
Hey bro, I'm in Australia and I'm a layer operator in a metal factory , I deal in 250 grade to 350 grade steel. I want cheat and make some swords and axes and hang on the wall do you have some design for me. Done my dna and I'm mainly scotch and northern English. Thanks from Australia.
Lazer operator
We got all the gear at work , off cuts and I can work back to make it. I hope you can get back to me.
In my country's history, the people used sharpened bamboo or 'bambu runcing' and hide in the woods to ambush soldiers with guns.