Tod’s Great Mistake, We need to talk about  

I have always loved your work and getting to handle this was a genuine pleasure. Some mistakes have the best endings:). I’ll be back for more soon.

@@LondonLongsword I thought that Todd's Stuff was a dead company? I thought that these days it was Todd's Workshop and Todd Cutler. Pretty good video overall.

@@ArmouryTerrain I think it's Tod Cutler..?

@@ArmouryTerrain its mentioned in the description he meant Tod Cutler (with link)

What a treat to see Tod's stuff being appreciated by practitioners. Found your channel thinking I was about to hear of a Tod scandal.

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That wouldn't surprise me.

That sounds awsome.. to me with fixed blade knives and the style of folders ....they got it right back then .new knives are looking like cheap gas station stuff these days so I love a classic design ypu can't fake that...so.e of these new thousand dollar etc knives look like flashy junk

I have one as well, it's wonderful and an absolute bargain

Rondel daggers were worn in and out of armour.

I'll be using my bollock dagger, in my gauntleted hand, in combat.

I think it is:). It was treated with the greatest care.:)

That’s one option. Though it depends on what exactly we’re talking about. Full Plate? Incredibly unlikely. Gambeson? Nope. Should break maille easily enough, though.

I see that, but from my perspective: why not both? Whatever may have initially prompted the design choice, it fits very nicely into the gaps of a clenched gauntlet which both increases hand protection and provides greater grip security (not only when trying to pull your blade from a target, but also when drawing in the first place). On that last point, consider that you're likely reaching for the blade once already closed with the enemy and under considerable stress. I imagine, then as now, practitioners would prize a design that served multiple ends.

I have had this thought as well. And I believe a proper fitting handle should be on the tight side to facilitate it from slipping

I was 100% certain that the issue would be like "well actually this historic production has the wrong type of crossguard" or similarly pedantic issue

A small unimportant sidenote: In german language substantives like Nagel or Bauernwehr are starting with a great letter.

​@@brittakriep2938I have no idea which German words are considered substantives, other than taking the two examples that you listed, but I'll keep it in mind for those ones. =) I believe it's best not to capitalise them in English, regardless, as words of that class are not capitalised in this language. I apologise that it probably looks jarring for a German viewer to see German-language words transformed to fit into English grammar, but English viewers would have the same sense of something being wrong if it were the other way around and when writing in English, English speakers are the audience. I should say that in English, we start each proper noun, such as the names of languages (even German =P ) with a capital letter. We also don't automatically capitalise the first letter after a colon, so I should write your sentence as follows: "A small and unimportant side note: in German, substantives, such as "Nagel" and "Bauernwehr" start with capital letters."

@@Meevious : As i wrote, this is only an unimportant mistake, which looks unusual to a german person with Asperger disorder :-) . Another thing which is ( for a german /austrian/swiss) a bit funny, is the use of the großen Messers. Here, i used the in german language used grammar case, but here the thing is clearly complicated for an english speaking person, who doesn' t know our german grammar, so for me no reason, to critisize this ( das lange Messer, dem langen Messer, des langen Messers, die langen Messer, den langen Messern, der langen Messer would be six possible variations in singular and plural, which remembers me, when i learned french for four years, i had allways problems to find the correct end of french words, because the sound is for my ears the same.) But it is for me good that currently english language is used as international language, in contrast to former centuries, in which French, Italian or Latin was used. For the reason, that English belongs to germanic group of languages, even using many frenchbased words like beef or beverage, it is often similar to German and for me much easier to understand, when you speak about simple everyday things, the words are rather similar, and sometimes the english word is simply a variation of an outdated , rare used german word. And, comming to the end, for me as a german, Britta is my girlfriend, it is rather intressting, that in context of historical fencing English speakers use german words.

Nagel is just a cheap way of stopping the hand. Nothing more to it. Later gets added to crossguards but thats all there is to it.

Matt Easton has supposed such a use.

@@OhioCruffler Thank you, I was not willing to dig through his and Lindibeige's videos to find out which one it was.