John Fitzen Makes a Sword for our Friend Raven

John is going to start a sword for our good friend Raven for a fan film that he is helping with.

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• John Fitzen
• Raven
• Sword
• Skull Knives

[sonottiny]

no offence but raven looks like a child molesting rapist who is never satisfied and thinks hes staying low key but is fucking far from it

[UndefinedEntropy]

Raven loves the cock

[cbrusharmy]

The forging of this project sword looks like it will make for an awesome FitzenKnives documentary. As both a fan of the books and channel/business, I'll admit I'm a bit excited.

[MASTERNCS]

SOrry but a grown ass man named RAVEN sounds like a total WTF. uh uhh back to the knives please.

[zednotzee7]

@Schmidt54 Thanks for the information :)ow I can see why it's called that. In the German clssification system it really IS a (very, very ) big knife, lol. I'd heard of a Zweihander before, but Bidenhander was a new term for me. I shall make a note of it in case I come across it again, which I might, as I've finally found a translation of Hans Talhoffer's 15th century training manual. Should be an interesting read :)

[Tedkennedysswimcoach]

@sonottiny Damn that's funny as hell.

[Schmidt54]

@zednotzee7 Also the word "Messer" (knife) in German means basically an edged weapon (or tool) with an edge that is ground on one side only. The "Dolch" (dagger) is a "Messer" but ground on both edges. The word "Messer" refers only to "short" edges (i.e. shorter than a sword's or sabre's edge), so "Großes Messer" is an odd term for a weapon that long, yet it correctly refers to the way the edge is ground.

[Schmidt54]

@zednotzee7 I definetly learned something from you, also thank you, it was really a nice conversation. Germans get ridiculous when it comes to words and their definiton...

The Großes Messer ("big knife") (not to be confused with Langes Messer - "long knife") is according to "our" definition a (2-handed) sabre, but it's an "imported" weapon (Ottoman Empire?). The "native" German 2-handed sword is called "Zweihänder" or "Bidenhänder" ("two-hander" if that makes sense).

[zednotzee7]

@Schmidt54 Oh, right. That explains it lol. No need to appologise though :) It was an interesting conversation (and in an odd way we were both right), plus I learned something ! I didn't know before that the German classification was any different to ours. That explains the grosse messer ( big knife I think it means ?) then. We would just have called it a 2-handed sword.

[Schmidt54]

@zednotzee7 you are totally right, I was wrong, sorry. I went into that discussion with a thinking mistake on my side: I was thinking in German terms (sword = Schwert) and in German, that word is very specific about what kind of item it describes. Obviously the British terminology (which I highly respect btw, I am fencing by the book of Alfred Hutton) uses the word in a broader and more common fashion. In German, sword would refer to a Langschwert and hardly any other weapon.

[magnum1165]

"Its 14 books"..... "Oh Jesus" that made me lol