What Rapier Should I Use for Saviolo's His Practice?
Recently, I have been looking into practicing Saviolo's rapier after a little over a year of practice in Fiore's longsword. I was looking through the illustrations and saw an unusual rapier design that had an S shaped guard with no loop guard, a wheel pommel, and a blade with no ricasso. I'm unsure of any contemporary rapiers of that design or similar models in the HEMA market. I want to ask anyone who practices Saviolo's His Practice if I should aim to use a sword like the one in the book or if I should get a different type of rapier. If you don't use the design from the manuscript, I'd also like to know of what rapier design you suggest. Thank you for the advice.
Posted Sep 3, 2021, 12:10 AM UTC
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