Help with documentation: "Bevan" and "Waster"

Help with documentation: "Bevan" and "Waster"

Post by Russell A. Myer » Fri, 21 Jun 1996 04:00:00


To all,
(esp. B.Mahoney and S.Hand)- I am very interested in improving the
authenticity of our (Blackwell's) Early Modern Fencing, and I need some
help with documentation and specifics for wooden practice swords used in

passing references to these in various books, although my library of
period fencing references is very small but growing. Some help, if you
would...Do we have good docs on these? What did they look like? Weight,
materials, construction specifics, usage, are there any surviving
examples(not too ***y likely, I know...). Has anyone ever come across
any paintings of a Salle or fencing practice?

           Thanks & more thanks,

                           Brin Leare, Sgt., Blackwell's

 
 
 

Help with documentation: "Bevan" and "Waster"

Post by Bryan J. Malon » Fri, 21 Jun 1996 04:00:00

There's a very large GIF file of an early 17th century salle floating
around somewhere on the Web.  I've got part of it as the background
pattern on my page.  However, I don't know if it portrays wasters.  My
Maestro's school uses unadorned dowels as our wasters.  I don't know how
accurate this is, but looking at later "baton" works, you'll see that they
just use dowels.