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Making Weapons and mixed Weapons Pages

• The Basics of Making of an SCA legal sword "of the one handed, basket hilted, Ansteorran style as rendered by Caladin Ironhearth esq."
• Björn's svärdssida Rekommenderas!
• The D.I.Y. Sword making Guide And lots of other stuff, LARP.
• Doug's Sword Making Page
• Gladius All about the Roman sword.
• HACA Mixed Essays and Articles Definitely worth a look.
• How to Build Dagorhir Equipment Has several LARP weapons and other stuff.
• How to Build a Hilt for SCA Rapier Combat Quite good with photos.
• How to Choose Rattan and Build a Sword, Not a Fishbat
• How to make a bokken A Japanese practice sword made out of wood.
• How to Make SOLAR Legal Weapons a couple of different boffer weapons.
• The How to's Several pdf files on how to make Amtgardian weapons etc. Can be usefull for LARPers as well.
• Hur jag tillverkade en svärdskida Från Björns svärdsida. Den detaljerade artieln är bra.
• The Key Role of Impurities in Ancient Damascus Steel Blades
• Knighthood, Chivalry & Tournaments Resource Library Has articles on Fighting etc.
• Knivar och dolkar 1250 - 1500
• Making a Basket-hilt sword For the SCA.
• Medieval Sword Resource Site
• A new way to get maimed; the Huscarl Axe A SCA Axe out of rattan.
• The Pollaxe: Description and Technique
• Pugio The Roman dagger.
• The Ravens Warband Seax A type of Anglo-Saxon/Viking shortsword.
• Reconstruction of a Sword Scabbard 1000-1250AD.
• Sword Forum Magazine On-Line
• Sword Making Has how to make rapier hilts as well.
• SWORDS OF IRON, SWORDS OF STEEL (PART I)
• Tsuka Wrapping The Tsuka is the handle of a Japanese sword.
• The Way of the Warrior Lots of SCA Fighter stuff

Missile and Siege Weapons

• ATARN -Asian Traditional Archery Research Network Lots of interesting stuff.
• The Atlatl and Dart
• Archery Newsgroups - FAQs Lots of various information pertaining to Archery.
• Back Quiver Plan Simple.
• A Basic Manual on Tomahawk Throwing
• Bauanleitung für einen einfachen Bogen
• A Bibliography of Archery
• Black Powder Notebook
• The Bowyer Chronicles Three articles on the experiences of beginners making bows.
• Building a Simple Combat Legal Ballista Legal for the SCA that is.
• The Bungeelista Or, How to Build a Surgical-Tubing Ballista
• Combat-Archery.com SCA
• A Deerskin Quiver
• Defensive Archery Techniques
• English Longbows With photos.
• The Essentials of Archery A transcribation of a book from the 50's.
• Experimental ABD Crossbow Bolts and Arrows A couple different types of boffer crossbow bolts for the SCA.
• Experimental Reconstruction of a Medieval trebuchet
• Further Speculation on the Nature of Longbowstrings
• A Glossary of Archery
• The Grey Company Trebuchet Page "Our collection of trebuchets and other "distance weapons"."
• Holdens Traditional Archery Many articles.
• How to Construct a Javelin Another SCA weapon
• How to Fire a 15th century Handgun
• How to Make a Matchlock Musket
• International Horn Bow Society
• Making a Longbow Check it out!
• Making Medieval Arrow Heads
• Making wooden selfarrows for the longbow (or indeed any other traditional bow)
• Making your own Weapons A collection of various bow articles.
• Manual for building a c. 40 lbs. Longbow
• The Medieval English Longbow
• My Experineces as a Rubber Band Gun Artillerist in the SCA pdf file. with instructions on how to make larger rubberband repeter type guns.
• On-Target Online An Tirs (an SCA group) Target Archery magazine. Has various interesting articles.
• Oriental Hinged and Take-apart Bows
• Pilum The Roman javelin.
• Precision Arrow Matching
• The Quivermaking guide How to make a simple quiver.
• Reconstruction of early Medieval cannons Samisk Pilbåge
• The Secret Behind Great Nocks
• The Solenarion The Byzantine Arrow Guide.
• Some Speculation on the Nature of Longbowstrings
• The Staff Sling: Guidelines for Construction and Use
• The Stickbow A On-Line Bow-and-Arrow building magazine.
• The Stonebow in the Medieval and Victorian Periods
• Ten Basic steps in Archery
• Throwing the Tomahawk
• Tillverkning av en långbåge i ask-kortfattad beskrivning 
• Towards a More Medieval Archerpdf file.
• Whistleing Arrows
• A 15th Century Italian Quiver

How to Use those Weapons

• AEMMA's On-line LibraryVarious fencing manuals etc.
• ARMA Used to be the HACA. Has articles, links and lots of other things!
• CLASSICAL FENCING AND HISTORICAL SWORDSMANSHIP EXPOSITION Has some examples of interesting later sword and relating techniques.
• Cariadoc's Close Form Heater An SCA Fighting manual.
• The Demystification of the Spanish School of Fencing.
• A Distilled DiGrassi Fencing manual.
• Dylan's Fencing Page Links to fencing manuals and SCA fencing rules.
• George Silver's "Paradoxes of Defence" Thoughts on fighting in 1599
• A Hack at the Man that Wol  A translation of a 15th century two-hand sword manual. No pictures.
• How I’m teaching my son to do SCA Boffer Fighting
• Jester's SCA Melee Tactics
• King René's Tournament Book A 15th- century book on how to hold a tournament.
• The Mysterious Circle School A Spanish fencing style.
• Practical Capo Ferro More fencing.
• Primary Resources of Defence Links to Fencing Manuals etc.
• The Spanish Circle Spanish fencing.
• The Swetnam manual Another fencing manual.
• Western Martial Arts Articles Not only medieval and not only with a weapon. Interesting.
• 13th century German Sword & Buckler Manual Very nice.