Landsknecht Emporium – Günther Messer with Sharp Blade – Beechwood Grip
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- Class
- Battle Ready
- Overall Length
- 35 1/8"
- Weight
- 1 lb 15.4 oz
- Brand
- Landsknecht Emporium
- Culture
- German
- Era
- Medieval
Overview
Landsknecht Emporium – Günther Messer with Sharp Blade - Beechwood Grip
One of Landsknecht Emporium's most popular Langes Messer, the Günther is a type M3D Messer with a wide blade ideal for powerful chops and cuts. The sharp and well-tempered blade is ground freehand from a blank of 6150/51crv4 steel. It's a rather robust weapon, with the most blade presence of our current Messers. It's a perfect choice for fencers, who like to face in the bind.
The hilt components are also ground freehand from mild steel. Landsknecht Emporium is letting some hand-work variance happen in the hilt accessories to not only keep the price manageable, but to also give the sword a more authentic handcrafted appearance at the same time. The Nagel is a separate piece peened on the other side of the quillon block, as it should be. The quillons are slid downwards from the tip with the blade protruding in the bottom. The handmade grip slabs of Beechwood are affixed by a set of solid brass rivets which create a robust hilt assembly with the grip and the thick blade tang. The Nagel is a separate piece peened on the other side of the quillon block, as it should be. The quillons are slid downwards from the tip with the blade protruding in the bottom - a feature seen on depictions of period originals.
Landsknecht Emporium products aim to have the aesthetics of historical pieces, not the finish of mass-produced items. Each product bears the signs of its making; small tool marks and imperfections, which do not affect the build quality or usability but give each of our pieces its unique character.
Specifications
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- Brand
- Landsknecht Emporium
- Culture
- German
- Era
- Medieval
- Pommel
- Integrated
- Overall Length
- 35 1/8"
- Blade Length
- 27 1/16"
- Weight
- 1 lb 15.4 oz
- Edge
- Very Sharp
- P.O.B.
- 5 1/4"
- Thickness
- 4.8 mm - 2.7 mm
- Width
- 52 mm
- Grip Length
- 7 3/8"
- Class
- Battle Ready
- Country of Origin
- Hungary
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The Maker
Landsknecht Emporium
The Landsknecht was the archetypal mercenary of the late 15th and most of the 16th century, with their heyday being in the second quarter of the latter. They were pretty much the meanest & baddest soldiers around that time, with a heightened sense of fashion. Our goal is to create weapons a period Landsknecht would be proud to use, mostly on a budget that keeps it accessible to modern recruits.
Due to the continuous research we are doing, we sometimes stray from that time and location to better understand trends that led to the development of weapons we aim to recreate. We are progressing from simpler items towards the more complex ones. We started with making Messers in 2016 and it was our main focus in these past few years. We intend to cover most of the styles relevant to our interest, while we’re planning to expand our repertoire with Katzbalgers, Bidenhanders, various daggers and all kinds of awesome stabbiness in the foreseeable future.
We founded Landsknecht Emporium to this end in March of 2016 in the outskirts of rural Hungary, at the end of a dead-end dirt road in a house not unlike those of murderous hillbillies in the movies that we call home.
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