I’m not sure these would pass as culinary to a general Cop. You might want to look at the exemptions list for pointy stabby things in the Vic Controlled Weapons list.
Definitely won’t pass. I have to keep mine locked up and report every time they’re taken out of locked storage. Along with Dad’s naval dirk and Grandpa’s cavalry sword. And I had to get them inscribed with ID so if they did get nicked by a burgular and used for nefarious purposes, they are identifiable as mine. Any tool designed to take humans apart into bite sized pieces gets this treatment. The cops nearly made me surrender them but I had locked storage available. I do get periodic enquiries and have to verify that they are still in storage and safely kept out of reach of children. With a very broad definition of children.
Never used rattan. Mine are family pieces not LARP. I did flirt with pigsticking for a while way back when, and used Grandpa’s sabre for that as it conformed to standard competition requirements. Had to take the tassels off though (since replaced). But competitive pigsticking just wasn’t my thing - preferred 3 day events.
Rattan allows full contact full power. And mighty fun bruises! Not going to argue about similar steel… The pig thing sounds interesting, if you are not the pig …
Would def not want to be the pig. Sport involves riding horse at full gallop down a straight line run then leaning over the side and sticking point of sword into a wooden peg in the ground. Points for 1) getting the peg stuck on the tip of the sword and pulled out of ground (lots), and 2) peg splits in half or more when sword pierces it (half as much). Zero for a complete miss. You get 3 goes at it, and then your final score is the average of all 3. There’s a version where you use a lance to do similar but I’ve never tried that. Sport developed from warfare where cavalry galloped through enemy campsite in the middle of the night pulling up tent pegs as they went. To cause general chaos and render enemy helpless. The things people do for fun never cease to amaze me.
I’m not sure these would pass as culinary to a general Cop. You might want to look at the exemptions list for pointy stabby things in the Vic Controlled Weapons list.
Definitely won’t pass. I have to keep mine locked up and report every time they’re taken out of locked storage. Along with Dad’s naval dirk and Grandpa’s cavalry sword. And I had to get them inscribed with ID so if they did get nicked by a burgular and used for nefarious purposes, they are identifiable as mine. Any tool designed to take humans apart into bite sized pieces gets this treatment. The cops nearly made me surrender them but I had locked storage available. I do get periodic enquiries and have to verify that they are still in storage and safely kept out of reach of children. With a very broad definition of children.
Yeah.I used to have the Historic Martin Arts pass on my stuff. Gave it away. And I’m just talking the rattan stuff not live blades.
Never used rattan. Mine are family pieces not LARP. I did flirt with pigsticking for a while way back when, and used Grandpa’s sabre for that as it conformed to standard competition requirements. Had to take the tassels off though (since replaced). But competitive pigsticking just wasn’t my thing - preferred 3 day events.
Rattan allows full contact full power. And mighty fun bruises! Not going to argue about similar steel… The pig thing sounds interesting, if you are not the pig …
Would def not want to be the pig. Sport involves riding horse at full gallop down a straight line run then leaning over the side and sticking point of sword into a wooden peg in the ground. Points for 1) getting the peg stuck on the tip of the sword and pulled out of ground (lots), and 2) peg splits in half or more when sword pierces it (half as much). Zero for a complete miss. You get 3 goes at it, and then your final score is the average of all 3. There’s a version where you use a lance to do similar but I’ve never tried that. Sport developed from warfare where cavalry galloped through enemy campsite in the middle of the night pulling up tent pegs as they went. To cause general chaos and render enemy helpless. The things people do for fun never cease to amaze me.
I’m phobic of horses so just NO
Am aware of some nasty training games that delete goats or watermelons … please just no.
The goats and watermelons are safe from me. I gave up this stuff many many moons ago.