A kit, not a curio

Mustered around

Carbon Steel Daisho with Scabbard

This piece is slow off the hip. The muster gives you something that answers first.

• The piece in hand

  $284.99

  Carbon Steel Daisho with ScabbardLW-0023

  The piece named at the table.

  The blade the fight is built around. Everything else answers what it leaves open.

• The sidearm

  $72.99Leave

  Rainbow Titanium Diamond CutLW-0108

  12" against the 39.4" in hand — it answers once the fight has closed.

  When the long steel is bound or beaten wide, the fight closes. Something short must answer inside the guard.

• The reach

  $299.99Leave

  Dark Sentinel SwordLW-0924

  47.1" of reach. It holds the ground before the line ever meets.

  Ground held before the line ever meets. Reach is the cheapest mercy on any field.

• The board

  $159.99Leave

  Talhoffer BucklerLW-0793

  What you refuse costs nothing to heal.

  Half of every fight is what you do not take. A shield argues by refusal.

• The helm

  $194.99Leave

  Crusader Great HelmLW-0769

  Head first. Everything else is a wager on the head holding.

  The first thing a foe sees and the last thing that fails.

• The harness

  $254.99Leave

  Gambeson, Black, Buckle Closure X-LargeLW-0749

  Worn steel. The difference between a wound and a story.

  Mail, plate or padded cloth — what stands between a body and the day it ends.

• The care

  $52.99Leave

  Wood Stand with MagnetLW-0618

  Kept steel outlives the hand that carried it.

  An edge unkept is an edge lost. Oil, stand, sheath — the steel outlives its owner or it does not.