A Nice Messer from Landsknecht Emporium - And the Children of the Sun
Tl;dr: The artists at Landsknecht Emporium deliver again and very kindly indulged my request for a design that I cared about. Detailed pictures and a short video at the end of the post. Why Get a Messer I’ve been without a good messer for fencing since I started fencing back in 2016. Messer fencing was pretty fundamental to German fencing culture for the period I focus on, and the first club I started at - bafflingly, in my opinion - doesn’t teach messer to beginners, so it flew under my radar for the first few years of my fencing “career.” Earlier this year I decided to rectify that, and got in touch with Tamas at Landsknecht Emporium to talk about a custom piece I could use for fencing. I wanted a thick-edged blunt version of their “Gottfried” model with some customizations - longer pommel, slightly wider cross, slightly larger nagel, a “fuller” on the grip slabs, and a few other things. We figured out money and got the order in. I wanted one because in 15th century Germany, p