All the fancy weapon names. :D

Maybe Squall should just fight single dagger then?

people fight with less..

I really do not want to give squall more reason to get in close, I wind up on the ground enough without encouraging him.

Ohh, reminds of those old days, back when I was told I couldnt use wrapobs, to make it fair, lol, also getting kicked from the field for uhnzing spears..

NEW WEAPON!!!

I have completed my first red. It is a 48" claymore; I can literally grip the blade above the cross guard, like a real claymore. This sword was Iohn and Odin's non-breakable cross guard experiment, so Iohn let me use it. Of course, he found ways to improve it when he revamped Cortney's Boudiga. I admit, her claymore is much prettier than mine, but I will make improvements on later models.

I named this claymore the Wselfwulf (pronounced as its syllables appear), which is Anglo-Saxo for "Wolf of Slaughter." My next model, if I ever make one, will have a better-looking cross guard and a slightly longer blade.

Looked great when I saw it last night, Jeiku. Now it just needs to get out there on the field and eat some shields. ^.^

So its a one handed red? An im considering remaking bai-yi, only adding 2" opencell on striking edge an possibly making it stabby...

MY SHIELD EATS CLAYMORES.

also yay for making your own weapons!

Hey kairi, you have O-Fender (the guitar) right?

Tyr wrote:

So its a one handed red?.

for some, but he will prolly use two hands like ur supposed to. correct me if i'm wrong jeiku

Yessir, we have O-Fender.

shield eating claymores is why you carry spare blades, they come up, you go Florentine on them

I will be role playing as a creeper from now on. I will be indestructible, and after 10 seconds of ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss i will throw rocks dealing black damage and die myself. fyi.

you have to run on four legs when doing this

creepers follow no rules. they were the horrible failure of a pig that just stayed in the game

Omg, can we seriously do this at a practice sometime? Please? XD

Also, Frag: Florentine against a red isn't always a very good tactic. I kill Florentiners more easily than anyone else on the field, save for single blues.

My claymore is a two-handed red. I can grip it with both hands below the cross guard, one hand above it and one hand below it, or I can lose one of my arms and attempt to use it one-handed.

Oh, and O-Gibson will be my next project. (I'll try to make it a more period guitar than a Flying V, as much as I love them.)

Sad, sorry news cometh. My claymore was literally destroyed on the battlefield at Gates.

Luckily, the sword was mostly Ian and Nick's cross guard experiment, in which a vinyl tube with fiberglass thread was used as its core. The cross guard worked perfectly, but I soon discovered that 3/4 inch PVC does not an effective red core make. SOOOOO... that means that I should just use 1/2 inch fiberglass for the core instead.

And, even thought the guy who broke it was a bit boastful and slightly rude about it, and as disappointed as i am, it was still funny to watch a single blue weapon literally break a 48 inch red.

3/4 pvc makes good reds, that core that you used had seen many battles, and i would stake that it was just it's time. a new piece of 3/4 pvc would not have failed so... explosively. It's a shame too, cause that was a pretty claymore. also a 1/2 fiberglass red will fail on flex unless it is min sized.

on the plus side, you could still turn the blade into a blue. just room for a handle and a pommel.

but solider on! my first sword snapped before I even got to use it

Oh well, it will make a good war story, no pun intended. Plus, the broken sword will make a good decoration.

If you use fiberglass, you need to twin-core it so it won't fail on flex. Not hard to do, just buy two rods and tape them together, so if you go that route, keep that in mind.

Gotcha. Thanks, Kairi (:

Kairi Cypmann wrote:

If you use fiberglass, you need to twin-core it so it won't fail on flex.

.....Odin.....hate......twin-core 1/2 fiberglass.....
But I did get a blow to the head with one, which cut my eye open......after i failed the weapon for hitting too hard errrrrrrr

I've never had a twin core red fail on hitting too hard, and I've made several myself on top of Iohn having made me some as well, though not all of those were 1/2" fiberglass. I'm not sure what one you're referring to. I personally think twin core are the way to go.

It was kiren's duel core 1/2 fiberglass red. It had four layers on the sticking surface and it still hit like a brick. but i must agree fiberglass makes for a better core than pvc

<.< >.> >.< I can't decide! x.x