Privateer Armoury

I have heard really good things about BKS swords they offer both stage combat and "sharps". They use high quality special alloy blade steels (unlike most foreign competitors).

Matt and Kerry are really great to deal with.

Hope that helps.

Here is a short video of some of the tests I did on a Privateer Armoury cutlass.

Let me know what you think.

Thanks for the welcome.

Matt,

Thanks for sending me this way. Great forum.

I hope this is the right place to post this (if not feel free to move/delete)

Before I became a bladesmith I used to craft custom gun rigs for reenactors.

One of the most important things to remember when deciding on how you are going to carry is to try it out. Kluge up a similar rig and see if it works for you.

I suspect that historical references to weapons under skirts (ladies of the night excepted) are mostly referring to ankle rigs (which work rather well) or to smuggling where access wasn't really an issue.

Ones like the ones in the screen shots are most likely used to give an excuse for the actresses to lift their skirts on screen.