What people actually look at, what you will still be wearing at four in the afternoon, and what the gate will confiscate. A first kit in buying order.

Haft length, head weight and how many hands, with sensible size ranges, where the bearded hatchet fits, and which one you should actually buy.

How to choose a kukri: the shapes, the sizes that actually work, steel and hardness, tang, sheath and sharpening the curve.

A good Damascus fillet knife is thin, springy and long enough for the fish you actually catch, not the one you talk about. Flex le...

Buy a natural ox horn of around 12 to 20 fluid ounces with a food safe interior seal and a stand or cradle, and treat it as a hand...

For a shield that is going on a wall, buy a round shield of 24 to 30 inches, planked or plywood faced, with a steel or brass boss,...

The Viking wedding gifts that survive the first year are household objects the couple would have bought anyway, made properly and ...

A state by state summary of US knife carry law: blade length limits, whether a fixed blade can be carried concealed, how automatic knives are treated and which states pre-empt local rules, for all fifty states and DC.

Battle ready means whatever the person selling it wants it to mean. There is no standard, no test and nobody checking. In ordinary...

A Viking knife is an easy thing to want and a hard thing to choose, because the phrase covers everything from a hand length seax t...