03-16-2019, 05:25 PM
I'd really like to take an iron-hilted akinakes of accurate shape and size to Plataea 2021, but I don't have much of a budget. Just recently I found an overseas maker who's willing to produce one to my specs in mild steel for about 120USD+shipping, which is a price I'm comfortable with.
As a reenactor, is it worthwhile paying another $90 to have it made of heat-treated high-carbon steel? I can't rule out the possibility that it'll be used for cutting and stabbing demos on a target, but that hasn't happened so far. And I can't really afford more than one. Any advice?
As a reenactor, is it worthwhile paying another $90 to have it made of heat-treated high-carbon steel? I can't rule out the possibility that it'll be used for cutting and stabbing demos on a target, but that hasn't happened so far. And I can't really afford more than one. Any advice?
Dan D'Silva
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I ride the winds of fate
Prepared to go where my heart belongs,
Back to the past again.
-- Gamma Ray
Well, I'm tough, rough, ready and I'm able
To pick myself up from under this table...
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Far beyond the rising sun
I ride the winds of fate
Prepared to go where my heart belongs,
Back to the past again.
-- Gamma Ray
Well, I'm tough, rough, ready and I'm able
To pick myself up from under this table...
-- Thin Lizzy
Join the Horde! - http://xerxesmillion.blogspot.com/
